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Also i spent more of my life in a therapists office then i could ever need, for absolutely no reason, i remember going in there and palying with star wars action figures, he gave me some pills, then my mom talked to him about shit that was bothering her, wheither it had to do with me or not i'm unsure, but it didn't do anything and wasted i beleive 100/200$ an hour, I told my parents to fuck off about 3 years ago, that they are useless pretty much adn that i don't need pills and i'm not going to take this shit that fucks with my head just so i can stay in there house (Yes, they said if i don't take the medicine i was going to get kicked out) I have absolutely no respect for my parents whatsoever, and combined with a variety of other things led to this scenario, sure it was avoidable.
Now it's time to play catch up and make my mom do something besides sit on her ass. For the last 5 years all i have heard from her mouth is the most absolutely negative shit ever, about how useless i am, about how much of a failure i'm giogn to be, how my sister is so great, how everything my younger brother does is my fault, and how most important, my mom graduated highschool and went to college, which got her where? For the last 20 years she hasn't worked. Congrats mom, you majored in accounting, possibly one of the easiest things in the world. Please continue holding that over my head. The constant reminder of how much of a failure i was, no matter how much i told myself how much her opinion and what she said didn't effect me, it did. And even after i confronted her about being a bitch, she stopped for a week then started again. At that point i stopped caring what she thought completely, i regard her from then and until this day as a nuisance in my life, something that only holds me back.
I'm sure i wasn't the easiest kid in the world, i won't pretend i didn't have any problems, i was fucked up for many years, but i never once started abusing drugs or alcohol or anything, yet was constantly reminded of how bad of a child i was. Solution: Pills. My education was a joke from K-9 I was in retard schools basically, for children with emotional problems, after 5th grade i was fine, i outgrew most of what was wrong with me, yet for some reason my parents didn't think so and kept me in these schools as an outcat for the next 4 years, Fucking my first year of highschool which i ended up repeating, my second year passed with D's with an absent rate of over 50% 3rd year, was kicked out itno a different school, which proceeded to screw me even more, considering it had the worst enviroment for my personality type, do the minimum, pass, go on to work at mcdonalds, after wasting a year there, half of my 3rd year of highschool and, half of my 4th, i finally got back to the public highschool, where i proceeded to have no grades for the first 2 quarters of the year, or very little, which i was saying the entire time how i would go back three and do my shit, but i was put back way too late, and was fucked for rest of that year, nothing short of strait A's for rest of hte year would of gotten me to pass wiht a D, so my attendence continued to slip and i failed, which ends me up here, in the begining of my junior year once again. So yeah, 5 years, and here i am. I'm 17 btw.
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On November 04 2007 03:08 MoNKeYSpanKeR wrote:
Also i spent more of my life in a therapists office then i could ever need, for absolutely no reason, i remember going in there and palying with star wars action figures, he gave me some pills, then
You might want to give this book a read, and have your mother do the same. It's written by a psychologist who studies male underachievers who has a lot to say about people in your situation.
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....so what's your prediction for this guy's life?
prediction?
PAIN!
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On November 04 2007 03:27 starcraftII wrote:
....so what's your prediction for this guy's life?
prediction?
PAIN!
 
I think it's great that you managed to get out of a situation like that to the point where you are ready to take your life into your own hands, despite the odds. Many people would have just continued the path of the failure and would have ended up with dead-end jobs and lives. Ignore faggots like the person I quoted :/. Even if it's some sort of movie reference or something, it's still out of line.
If anything, writing about your difficulties and your will power that overcame them is a great topic for a college essay. Colleges want to hear about your personality and who you are, as well as why you want to go to college. This does both, and it does it well. Just a thought for the future n_n.
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i wouldn't call your mom a retard for majoring in accounting when you have a 0.5 GPA.
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Honestly, the point of GPA is to show that you are reliable and submissive to society and the workload it puts on you. Any gap in this is going to be really hard to truly make up for. Unless you can show hardship like you had no parents or had to work two jobs to feed your starving 3 year olds, employers and universities are going to view someone who ever got grades like that, as a kind of a risk, a loose cannon. If you get straight A's for a couple years that helps, but god that sucks too.
Fortunately there are other ways to be a worthwhile human being than to prove your reliability as a an anvil to be hit with a hammer day in and day out for years. You are really smart, so find careers that only care about whether you pass this or that test. Maybe you can study for AP tests and take them w/o even taking the class. Pass those tests, get a work history, pretty soon you're an "adult" and colleges will look at you fresh. Might be better than trying to get "back on track."
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On November 04 2007 02:41 Bill307 wrote:Show nested quote +On November 04 2007 01:37 MiniRoman wrote:
I'm serious. In Canada you would have to repeat the classes you failed until you could take the next level courses. IE his ass should be in grade 9 still. It's diff in America? I guess this why so many people on Slashdot complain about American high schools letting everyone pass instead of holding some students back =/. In Ontario, at least when I graduated, universities looked at the grades from only your last 1 or 2 years of high school. I think it's silly that your grades from your first 2 years of high school can have so much weight against your college prospects. I mean, it's not like some magical maturity switch in your head is turned on when you enter grade 9. I'd like to think that most colleges will not care about your low cumulative GPA if you get top marks in everything from here on. Hopefully the people saying that here are right =/.
Ya I'm in Ontario. In grades 9 and 10 you take either A (academic) or P (applied) level courses. Then in 11 and 12 it turns into Univeristy and College level courses with some M (open) ones. If you apply for University you send your 6 highest U course levels (unless there is a prerequiste then that gets included no matter what) and for college you send your C ones. BAM! EZZZ
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Sorry if this is off-topic, but Fanatcist you post alot of solid reassurance. I remember you said you go to MIT. You were able to get in with 3.6?
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On November 04 2007 04:20 kdog3683 wrote:
Sorry if this is off-topic, but Fanatcist you post alot of solid reassurance. I remember you said you go to MIT. You were able to get in with 3.6?
Er, no. This is not me. I never said I go to MIT.
EDIT: However, I know someone who got accepted with something like a 3.7/3.8 and bare minimum SAT scores because of the MASSIVE amounts of extra-curriculars, sports, and community service he did. He got in over someone with 2300 SAT and better than 4.0 GPA.
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On November 04 2007 02:52 MoNKeYSpanKeR wrote:Show nested quote +On November 04 2007 02:11 YoUr_KiLLeR wrote:
you have 5 study hall periods and you were bragging about finishing your homework in an hour and having 5 free hours every night? 5/6 days i have a single study hall. Not 5 periods a day, that would leave 3 periods to take actual classes O_O
sorry, misunderstanding =p.
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Go do well in school.
go to a good college (or fast CC into a new Expo(college))
get a job at blizzard.
play SC all day.
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On November 04 2007 02:38 bburn wrote:
I just looked through this topic again real quickly and I haven't noticed anyone mention AP classes. If you can take these and get 4s+5s on the exam that will show schools that you are capable of doing well on college level courses. Not to mention at most schools these get weighted higher than other class for GPA so you might be able to boost that a bit more with those types of classes.
You can't get into AP classes if you're failing remedial or basic level classes
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Just curious because I recall you saying you played football for awhile; how were you ever going to play a game of football with that GPA?
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it just boggles my mind how you with genius IQ can fail high school courses when they are so god damn easy to pass. Somebody so smart couldn't be so stupid to be absent 70% of the time. I think you have emotional problems far beyond just being a slacker.
here take this mensa test and come back with the results
http://mensa.dk/testiq.html
and Physician's test too
http://www.highiqsociety.org/iq_tests/
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Beyonder
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remember, to be special you need at least an IQ over 180. Everyone here is brilliant.
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On November 04 2007 05:28 Rev0lution wrote:it just boggles my mind how you with genius IQ can fail high school courses when they are so god damn easy to pass. Somebody so smart couldn't be so stupid to be absent 70% of the time. I think you have emotional problems far beyond just being a slacker. here take this mensa test and come back with the results http://mensa.dk/testiq.htmland Physician's test too http://www.highiqsociety.org/iq_tests/
There is no reason for you to have to test him. If he scores low you call him a lying idiot, woopee. Aren't you the coolest kid in town? You just have to know whether it's the truth or not!
On November 04 2007 05:30 Beyonder wrote:
remember, to be special you need at least an IQ over 180. Everyone here is brilliant.
QFT.
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Hey, I just thought you might be interested in a school called Full Sail. I'm going there right now and they have one of the best Game Design programs in the world. It's tough as nails but they're VERY lax on requirements to enroll (maybe less so in game design than others, I don't know, I'm not taking it).
It's an expensive school, but if you really want to come here I'm sure you can find a way. Check it out.
www.fullsail.com
If you're really as smart as you're claiming to be (although IQ doesn't really measure your ability to be a programmer) then you should be fine.
Good luck.
As for the psychiatrist, I'm almost certain they get bonuses when they prescribe shit to people, thus all the kids with ADD, etc.
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On November 04 2007 04:57 KOFgokuon wrote:Show nested quote +On November 04 2007 02:38 bburn wrote:
I just looked through this topic again real quickly and I haven't noticed anyone mention AP classes. If you can take these and get 4s+5s on the exam that will show schools that you are capable of doing well on college level courses. Not to mention at most schools these get weighted higher than other class for GPA so you might be able to boost that a bit more with those types of classes. You can't get into AP classes if you're failing remedial or basic level classes
I meant for next year, assuming he finishes strong this year.
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EPT
. After my experience with a psychiatrist, I absolutely hate them. She didn't give a fuck what I had to say, and her only solution was to put me on drugs.
