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On November 03 2007 14:15 FragKrag wrote:
1. A's continuously in classes like Alg II & English 11 aren't going to impress anybody.
2. I despise people like you. Full of shitty excuses for you failure. It would take more than absences to sabotage your grades that far.
3. It's too late. Even if you shape up, you have your entire sophomore year lagging you down (right)?
4. Making games? ROFL? Shape up, and stop fantasizing about how you'll help develop games for Blizzard. A simple little flash game isn't going to get you in Berkeley or MIT.
5. She's a high school counselor... in America where phrases like 'You can do anything of try hard enough!' are fed like candy to kids. You really think she is telling the truth?
6. How the hell did you parents let that happen?
7. CCs aren't that bad. My 9th grade Bio teacher went to a CC, got 4.0s throughout, transfered to UC San Diego (OH SHI), and ended up as a field biologist. Keep in mind that a 4.0 from a CC is usually worth more than a 4.4 from just any HS.
Good for you, you fucktard... Do you feel better by putting other people down? He said like 3 times that he doesnt wanna hear how retarded he is for having a 0.5 gpa, he wants help (if real help) he just wants ideas of how to turn life around.
And Of course you have time dude, start challenging yourself in your junior and senior year with hard classes and doing good and impressing the counselors on how much better you wanna do and that you really care. They know a lot of people and they can give you good referrals(if thats the term).
Get a decent job that pays okay, have good benefits and pay for schooling. Be professional at your job, kiss ass to your boss and boss's boss and you ll move up in your job while going to school (community college) and then transfer to a bigger school.
Don't do drugs and don't fall in love with a girl (it can mess your life up).
I dunno if that was much help. My post was intended to just flame FragKrag but then started thinkin about little stuff
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IF you are interested in flash stuff www.newgrounds.com has a lot of tutorials and stuff there is also youtube. I figured out how to make a soundboard from watching a video on youtube.
here is my website copy the [IMG] link into your address bar.
http://spore3006.googlepages.com/home
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similar thing happened to my friend, he started out doing well in middle school and perhaps freshman year. by senior year, he had failed all his classes due to lack of motivation and such. he took an extra year to graduate, but now he's at a public college, but still above community college. right now he's doing well in 6 classes, part-time internship job, and commutes over an hour every day.
I'm pretty sure if you make straight A's for the next two years you can do better than community college. Then after two years, you can transfer out into a better college. Good luck.
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Washington, D.C9935 Posts
i hope you realize how far behind you are, these days even a 3.5+ is nothing special. for the amount that you are behind, you will need to put in a proportionate amount of effort into catching up. a .5 average right now with straight As for the next two years will put you at low 2.0s, probably not enough for most state schools.
like lil.sis already said, if you manage to average a 4.0 in community college and transfer to a decent school, you'll only be where you should have been had you done average in high school. from there, it's more hard work to prove to others and to yourself that you have the drive to go beyond 'just good enough.' you've got a long, long road ahead of you but there's just no way around it. i hope your op was sincere, and the best of luck to you!
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if ur really that intelligent ur grades should be higher. hell i went to school stoned every friggin day and still graduated with an above average mark (2,1 - german system). and the US school should be even easier.
from what i read your main problem was ur attendance, which is dumb. not going to school at all is the only way to fuck ur grades up. as long as ur there ur grades wont be that bad even if ur on drugs or w/e. If u really hate going to school id smoke weed before the classes begin and be somewhere else mentally. ull still get better grades than if u dont show.
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On November 03 2007 14:15 FragKrag wrote:
1. A's continuously in classes like Alg II & English 11 aren't going to impress anybody.
2. I despise people like you. Full of shitty excuses for you failure. It would take more than absences to sabotage your grades that far.
3. It's too late. Even if you shape up, you have your entire sophomore year lagging you down (right)?
4. Making games? ROFL? Shape up, and stop fantasizing about how you'll help develop games for Blizzard. A simple little flash game isn't going to get you in Berkeley or MIT.
5. She's a high school counselor... in America where phrases like 'You can do anything of try hard enough!' are fed like candy to kids. You really think she is telling the truth?
6. How the hell did you parents let that happen?
7. CCs aren't that bad. My 9th grade Bio teacher went to a CC, got 4.0s throughout, transfered to UC San Diego (OH SHI), and ended up as a field biologist. Keep in mind that a 4.0 from a CC is usually worth more than a 4.4 from just any HS.
wow and i despise ppl like you! I bet you dont do drugs, go to "parties" were nobody does drugs, got really really good grades, basically still accept ur parents authority (u call it love and respect to yourself) and are a virgin.
The worst part of all is u actually think ur intelligent and think of people who got bad grades, do drugs or w/e as failures. Hate to break it to you dude but some people actually fuck a girl or 2 and sniff a line of charlie while you learn and still have the same grade as you. Yep, life is unfair!
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i wish i had a lady who'd talk to me like that. in our school, nobody cared. -_-
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United States996 Posts
get all As then write some bullshit college essay about how you had a life changing experience that propelled the change. back it up with good SAT and maybe SAT II scores and a bunch of community service and find some teacher to write you a good letter of rec in your major
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My advice to the OP: it is never too late. And there are no shortcuts in life.
You may feel like you screwed up a few years and it's "now or never". But it's never "now or never". Even if whatever trick you try to make up for the past fails, there's always another chance.
But about that trick; there are no shortcuts in life. If you screwed up a few years, be prepared to pay another few years to make it up. Not a fancy flashgame, hehe.
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On November 03 2007 18:52 diehilde wrote:Show nested quote +On November 03 2007 14:15 FragKrag wrote:
1. A's continuously in classes like Alg II & English 11 aren't going to impress anybody.
2. I despise people like you. Full of shitty excuses for you failure. It would take more than absences to sabotage your grades that far.
3. It's too late. Even if you shape up, you have your entire sophomore year lagging you down (right)?
4. Making games? ROFL? Shape up, and stop fantasizing about how you'll help develop games for Blizzard. A simple little flash game isn't going to get you in Berkeley or MIT.
5. She's a high school counselor... in America where phrases like 'You can do anything of try hard enough!' are fed like candy to kids. You really think she is telling the truth?
6. How the hell did you parents let that happen?
7. CCs aren't that bad. My 9th grade Bio teacher went to a CC, got 4.0s throughout, transfered to UC San Diego (OH SHI), and ended up as a field biologist. Keep in mind that a 4.0 from a CC is usually worth more than a 4.4 from just any HS.
wow and i despise ppl like you! I bet you dont do drugs, go to "parties" were nobody does drugs, got really really good grades, basically still accept ur parents authority (u call it love and respect to yourself) and are a virgin. The worst part of all is u actually think ur intelligent and think of people who got bad grades, do drugs or w/e as failures. Hate to break it to you dude but some people actually fuck a girl or 2 and sniff a line of charlie while you learn and still have the same grade as you. Yep, life is unfair!
Not that i like what he wrote but calling "sniff a line" good sucks bad ^^
Monkey stop dreaming that you get a good job in gamingindustrie with no good education, learning it by yourself will never be enough. Go back to school like some say here and try to reach after 2 years higher schools. I really wonder where your parents have been
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On November 03 2007 19:57 Liquid`Zephyr wrote:
get all As then write some bullshit college essay about how you had a life changing experience that propelled the change. back it up with good SAT and maybe SAT II scores and a bunch of community service and find some teacher to write you a good letter of rec in your major
i agree with Zephyr, just don't make it a bullshit college essay, make it fucking shakespeare, this had better be the goddam college essay any college has ever seen.
also if you TRULY change your ways and shit and get straight A's for the next two years you can probably end up with around 2.2 GPA by the end of high school, which could get you into a (okay) state school (which is definitely above a CC). Find out which state school has a relatively good computer or archeology(doubtful) departments/teachers and do your best to go there. Then when you get high marks there transfer to a better state school, then going to MIT or something for grad school won't seem like such an unreality as it does at this very moment.
But it all boils down to your decision to work hard. NOW! (Which is way harder than I'm making it sound)
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United States3468 Posts
Keep in mind that high school guidance counselors are generally remarkably clueless about their jobs, especially when it comes to advising people far more intelligent than they are. There is no such thing as an IQ so high its possessor should be attending MIT (or any school). IQ is necessary but not sufficient to succeed in academics at any level, as by now you should know very well. Forget about having anything to do with an elite university in the foreseeable future, even if happen to be the next Einstein.
Now here is the advise part. Calm down. The American university system is such that there is always a way to make a comeback, no matter how badly you've fucked yourself over in the past. Your case isn't nearly as bad as you think, and if you follow the right steps from now on then in several years your high school disaster will be forgotten and irrelevant.
The bad news is, there is absolutely no chance for you to get into a college that fits your intellectual abilities. This is especially true if you're a white male but it's probably the case in general. If you apply to a state school they simply won't read your application past your gpa and transcript. This means you won't even get into schools where you're smarter than even the top students, but such is the nature of your predicament.
The rational thing for you to do is to enroll at a community college. Academically this may for the most part be a waste of time since you'll be collecting easy A's without learning much or being stimulated, but it's completely necessary at this point. Basically you have to prove that you're even capable of doing easy busywork before moving on to the next stage. On the bright side, many interesting people including adults go to community colleges, and the professors can give you lots of personal attention if they find you're interested and talented. When you get your associate's degree you can go to a decent university. You will probably jump into 3rd year coursework so you won't end up losing any time. If you can finish your university coursework with good recommendations, you can do anything you could have done if you'd done well in high school and gone to a good college to begin with.
The one lasting effect of this may be that you'll end up learning an important lesson about consequences and developing a psychological resilience and a knack for overcoming real adversity which will ultimately make you happier and more successful in life  .
On November 03 2007 12:39 MoNKeYSpanKeR wrote:
Well, i had one of the most depressing chats the other day in school. I was heading to math on halloween, and as soon as i enter the classroom i got pulled out, The lady who asks what you want to do in the future and all these other questiosn wants to talk to me. She also tells you your GPA and all your test scores and all that shit.
So we go into her office, and i know my GPA is oging to be low, i figure it's like 1.5 or something. The shock to me is she tells me my GPA is a miserable .586 or somethign mentally retarded like that. At this point i'm thinking how retarded this lady must think i actually am. I then laughed it off and said "Well, i guess i'm going to RCC." Rockland Community College. Anyway she goes "Yes, but i don't think you should be going there." God i'm telling tihs very randomly so far, i will try to keep it more organized from here on out.
After she tells me my GPA i tell her how dumb she must think i am, at that point she says how she doens't think i am dumb, and pulls out my IQ scores from 2 years ago. She told me according to my GPA, i barely have a pulse, but according to my IQ tests i should be attending MIT. It was a compliment and a slap in the face all at the same time, So she asks what i have been doing for the last few years, Well to sum it up, i have had literally no motivatin whatsoever, and i pretty much tell her that, what's there to look forward to after highschool and college? I live of mediocrity and a job i don't like? The fun is gone. She told me that that wans't necessarily the case and started asking me about my aspiration for a career, what i particualrly wanted to do. I told her that i was interested in a job that would allow me to travel around a lot, becuase i have no desire to stay in one place for an extended period of time, i don't mean travel around the country, i want to see the world. And at some point i hope i will. Then i elaborated syaing i either watned to design video games or something relating to history, Archaeoligist came to mind, i would get to travel and see the world, and view things most people never will.
But at this point during our chat it seems like an unrealistic dream. This year of highschool i finally stepped up and am going and doing everything i should be doing, i have a girlfriend who actually makes me have to go to school, she depends on me driving her, and no matter how much of a failure i am i will never bring someone down with me. Therefore since i drive her every morning, i'm awake every morning, ready every morning, and going to school every morning. But even with all A+ this year, which is easy enough my GPA still won't be hihg enough to go anywehre besides RCC, which i confessed i had no desire whatsoever to go to under any circumstance, considering it doens't support any of the majors i am interested in.
She tells me that theres more then one way to get into a college, and GPA is one of them. She told me that i have to sell myself in other ways besides my GPA, tell them about everything, how i had no motivation until recently, then that alone will not help, i need to show them something, basically she susgested i create some sort of game, or have soemthing to show colleges besides a my grade list. I was laboring under the delusion that Incompletes didn't count as anything twoards your grade, and just disappeared. I don't remmeber why i thought that, but it turns out they count as F's and my summer school grades, i have no idea what they count as.
So in short, now that i'm finished with this somwhat blogish thing, i would of posted it as a blog, but i desperately need help and a blog woldn't get enough attention.
I need TL to help me find good websites and places to learn how to use Flash, or other programs to design video games, and anyone who is willing to help me learn it's most apprecaited, what happens involving tihs over the next 2 years will most likely determine the rest of my life. For better, or for worse. So i ask the most useful knowledgable place that i know of, that's right, i come to TL for all the help i need, i confess and ask for help to virtually no one, when the lady asks who knows me best and who knows what i want to do in the future, i could honeslty say no one did, I never really talked about it at all. Until now, now i am using all help available to me and do everything in my power to assure myself that in the next 10 years, i can look back and say "Wow, i came so close to ruining myself, but i threw it all together." Rather then living with my parents, or dead, or in the army, or whatever i end up doing. So TL, now that i view my archaeology career, since theres nothing i can present to a college that i can tihnk of to involve that, so by not doing good in school, i limtied my options. So TL, can you help me save my life?
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I don't know if you said this OP but you're a junior (third year) in high school right now right?
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good luck at community college. make a better effort there and you've got a shot
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How do u get a GPA as low as 0.5. Is that the GPA for mentally retarded students? You should finish in highschool, go to cc and get a high GPA of 4.0 then be accepted in a good university.
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Looks like some people here havnt experienced having no motivation. If you dont see any point in anything you do then it get a lot harder. Its not that people like that are losers or dont want to have motivation. Ive been through some periods in my life when I felt like that. Id rather just lie in bed all day sick than go to school or do homework. If you have never felt like that yourself then dont judge people who have.
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I just wanted to say that probably nothing will come out of impulse decisions, like "aha! I want to be a game designer/archeologist!". Take some time and think about it instead, otherwise it'll just be another half assed attempt. Rash decisions usually turn out bad! Don't promise yourself too much.
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On November 03 2007 21:01 DrainX wrote:
Looks like some people here havnt experienced having no motivation. If you dont see any point in anything you do then it get a lot harder. Its not that people like that are losers or dont want to have motivation. Ive been through some periods in my life when I felt like that. Id rather just lie in bed all day sick than go to school or do homework. If you have never felt like that yourself then dont judge people who have. i think a lot of people here have experienced no motivation (TL is the ultimate procrastination tool after all), and whether they have or not, there is no miracle advice for his case, he plain and simply screwed himself over by getting a .5 gpa. people aren't being any more brutally honest than college admissions departments are going to be
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Why do there have to be so many dicks on the internet? Why can't you guys go be assholes to people who can actually punch you in the face?
More on-topic, you're a junior? You've still got 2 years of high school? It's really not as drastic as everyone else here says. If you get a 4.0 for the rest of your high school career, even if your cumulative GPA is still going to be shit, you can point to the past two years and go on the strength of that alone. A lot of colleges (particularly smaller ones who give more personal attention) will be willing to forgive what happened when you were 14 or 15, and will care a lot more that in recent years, you picked yourself up. In fact they may even be impressed by your 180 degree turnaround.
Anyway, it's never too late to start excelling.
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If you just want to make a small rpg scroller or something, there's XNA Game Studio Express (free). There are tutorials and examples to be found with google. The games you make can both be played on windows and 360.
But unlike me, these guys know what they are talking about: Gamasutra
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