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[Junket]

I was just looking at mine, I graduated with a 1.86 GPA.

Boy did I suck at highschool, but at least I had fun.

[lesa]

Wow, can you graduate with those numbers? Well I guess you can.

I believe you would have done better if school was not so structured. School needs to be more interesting. And educators need to be more creative and not teach everyone the same boring way.

I slept though high school and was top of my class. I hated school and still do. I love learning but not the way most schools do it.

[Junket]

I was told I might have to go to summer school before I graduate.

Here's the deal though, I performed a lot of community service while in high school and received the Bronze Congressional Award for service. It had a fantastic service learning program, and I had a fantastic mentor.

She told me that my guidance counselor had spoken to her at the end of the year (no specifics) but I get the impression that my service nudged me through graduation.

[Cain]

I slacked off a lot while in high school. I rarely did homework and didn't usually study for test. I graduated with a 2.79. I did try my junior year and I had a 3.9, but I slacked again senior year.

I was closer to a 4.0 while I was in my first three quarters of college though before I dropped that program to pursue law.

[LadieNisha4u2nv]

I hated high school. I hated the students, some of the teachers, the administration, the entire environment. It seriously sucked. The way it is here is that we have 4 classes per day, each are an hour and a half long. Ridiculous IMO. Where as in the states there are about between 6-8 classes at about 45 minutes per day. I coulda dealt with that had I not gotten extra classes because they didnt teach what we are taught here in the Virgin Islands.

So, high school didnt work out for me sadly. I am however done with night school though, report cards will be this week so look for an update.

[doppelgaenger]

I graduated with a 2.7 lol. I didn't try very hard either. Grades are a crock of shit though. You can't really measure someone's intelligence by tests and homework.

[Cain]

I graduated with a 2.7 lol. I didn't try very hard either. Grades are a crock of shit though. You can't really measure someone's intelligence by tests and homework.

While they may be a crock of shit, I have to remain as close to a 4.0 as possible in my undergrad. Anything less than a 3.8 will significantly ruin my goals for law school.

[lesa]

While they may be a crock of shit, I have to remain as close to a 4.0 as possible in my undergrad. Anything less than a 3.8 will significantly ruin my goals for law school.

That is true. My bf is stressed to keep his 4.0. Almost lost it last semester.

[doppelgaenger]

While they may be a crock of shit, I have to remain as close to a 4.0 as possible in my undergrad. Anything less than a 3.8 will significantly ruin my goals for law school.

I was talking high school. My college GPA is much higher.

[Gribble]

My high school GPA floated somewhere around 1.5. But then I was determined to drop out as soon as I could legally do so and then move on to something constructive.

[vashti]

I don't consider grades to be a crock of shit. While imperfect, they are still the best tool available for measuring academic achievement, especially in solid subjects.

I greatly respect the high school kids who can manage to pull good grades. I think it says a lot that a kid can be hormone-ridden and suffer all the relationship problems, insecurity, peer pressure, and other relevant teenage angst while still pulling in top marks in classes they couldn't care less about. It takes a lot of focus and self-discipline. I couldn't do it.

[Lipp]

I stuffed up in early high school when it was a domestic school back in sweden, but in the international one in Sri Lanka I shaped up despite the initial obstacles and grades weren't astonishing but still good enough to get me into all the top unis here in Aussie-land, so it worked.

But yeah, domestic schools are usually bad.

[doppelgaenger]

I don't consider grades to be a crock of shit. While imperfect, they are still the best tool available for measuring a student's will and capability of memorizing things which are rendered useless to them

I corrected your post. Academic achievements? I think the biggest academic achievement is figuring out what one's interests are in the formal studies, and learn to pursue one's own curiosity for the sake of satisfaction. In other words, self-motivation to study something.

I think there are a lot of crappy teachers, parents, and peers out there who don't care enough to get their students, sons/daughters, and fellow classmates to understand why they are studying the things they are. Once I realized why I was in school, and why I was studying the things I was, I snapped in shape and pulled my shit together. Otherwise I would have gotten a much lower GPA in school
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[misombra]

My high school GPA floated somewhere around 1.5. But then I was determined to drop out as soon as I could legally do so and then move on to something constructive.

my gpa was a little higher, but i definitely had the same attitude.

[vashti]

I corrected your post. Academic achievements? I think the biggest academic achievement is figuring out what one's interests are in the formal studies, and learn to pursue one's own curiosity for the sake of satisfaction. In other words, self-motivation to study something. blah blah blah

You shouldn't have "corrected" my post. I said what I meant.

Not every school works the way your high school apparently did. The majority of the population is educated where I live, unlike many rural areas. Lots of kids in my area have concurrent high school and college enrollment, and yes - those kids are very bright, have already determined their course of study, and are headed for the top universities where they are entering mostly as sophmores, and a couple as juniors. They deserve it, too (although it must be hard for you to imagine there are bright, motivated, hard-working students out there who have cared about their education throughout high school).

While there may be a lot of kids who have a hard time understanding why they are in school, I am not referring to those students.

Also, to clarify - I know there is more than one path, and that intelligent people aren't always able to do things the traditional way. However, it just strikes me as petty jealousy to try to minimize the academic achievements of those who have worked hard to earn them. They may not have had the same life experiences YOU had, but neither have you had theirs, and everyone has challenges to overcome.