THE DROPOUT THRED

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― a_p (a_p), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

― ian (orion), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i qualify for both, bitch, do not oppress me

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Tuesday, 12 December 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

RIP NYU YOU WERE EXPENSIVE AND FULL OF JERKS ;_1

― a_p (a_p), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I qualify for neither. I've only taken one of my finals, though, there's still time to drop out!

― Maria e (Maria), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

join us

― a_p (a_p), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

we are the most attractive and successful people on ilx

― a_p (a_p), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i've got until thursday to drop out

...but college girls are too cute

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

big regret about college: not bangin more broads.

― ian (orion), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Does it count if you only dropped out of a Master's Degree program... but then you went back to school for something else?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

gbx and ian both totally otm

― a_p (a_p), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/11.27.96/gifs/james-brown-9648.jpg
James Brown sez: Don't Be A Dropout

― Ruud Haarvest (KenL), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

bangin' pplz in college is totes overrated.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

PIZZA V BOOBIES

― a_p (a_p), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

ah yes but the all important pizza v dick question, never asked.

(PS NO LOUIS THAT ISN'T AN INVITE FOR YOU TO START THAT THREAD)

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

mod request

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

eric h already started a thread along those lines...

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I WAS A STATE SCHOOL DROP-OUT @ ONE POINT TOO -- REPRESENT!!

http://i.pbase.com/o4/60/15160/1/57659031.enhancednewbrunswick.jpg

― Eisbär (Eisbär), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

dude you seriously are worse than Ned with the reading every thread ever on the entire ILX, I gotta say.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link

me?!?

― Eisbär (Eisbär), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

no, Louis. You probably too but Louis really.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i was gonna say, i hardly post anymore around here these days.

― Eisbär (Eisbär), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

You only post about New Jersey, dude.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

well, what ELSE is there to post about?!?

RIP NYU YOU WERE EXPENSIVE AND FULL OF JERKS ;_1

1,000% OTMFM

― Eisbär (Eisbär), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

783 people kill themselves every year jumping off the NYU library, this is a fact.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

wha

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

where is the FLUNK OUT thread

― strongo (temp.) (sandboxhulkington), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

look it up

xpost........mmmmmmmmmaybe.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

783 people killed themselves at the library WHILE I WORKED THERE and 500 of them LIVED ON MY FLOOR

― a_p (a_p), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

you should've brought a pony to the student lounge, that cheers everyone up.

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

XP: Was one of them you?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

a pony stuffed with kittens

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img.sheezyart.com/art/medium/79/798644.jpg

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

FLUNK OUT THREAD
FLUNK OUT THREAD
FLUNK OUT THREAD
FLUNK OUT THREAD

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i always figured they were hypnotized by the pattern of the tiled lobby... huh

xxxxpost

― friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://images.quizilla.com/P/PyraDragonGirl/1061183023_onyresult2.jpg

― a_p (a_p), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

WOW!!

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

a pony stuffed with kittens

best pinata ever.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

"Temporarily" dropping out next semester. Broke, weighing pros and cons of faking my death.

― milo (milo), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.realmmedia.com/files/images/03-16Hudson_Horstachio.preview.JPG

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

+ kittens

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

this does look like a really cool place to jump, i must admit:

http://www.law.nyu.edu/experience/virtualtour/bobst.jpg

― Eisbär (Eisbär), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

http://itp.nyu.edu/~rcc273/archives/lobby-from-above.jpg

dropout... get it?

― friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

my favorite part is the steel umbrella over the info desk

― friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I dropped out of college not once but TWICE.

― Dragons (per the previous FAQ answer) (nklshs), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

it's for safety

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.tombraider4u.com/pictures/sadfaces.jpg

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

although it's perforated iirc, so you'd still get bits and pieces all over yourself

xxpost

― friday on the porch (lfam), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

i qualify for both
me too! I dropped out of an ivy! wicked

― dar1a g (dar1a g), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

there is a lot of plexiglass paneling at bobst so it's harder to jump now.

― ian (orion), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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I dropped out. As always. I never have any nightmares about that, but some nights I do break into sweats about not having finished highschool, which I actually did do. I should have been able to finish university but I just didn't see the point (at the time). Maybe I'll regret it one day, but for now it was the best decision I could have done: I just couldn't see myself being a child psychologist and witness all the sadness.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

It wasn't until my second year of art school that the administration realized I was a high school dropout and insisted I get a GED. Two days of testing rather than two years of high school!!! Then I dropped out of art school. Finished a college undergrad degree, but only because—weirdly, considering my lack of real schooling—they accepted me as a junior.

At age 50 I have finally stopped having nightmares about being back in school.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

To all you drop outs, I have a question. Should I drop out before I flunk out? Which one is classier?

― jibe (jibe), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

dropping out might provide more satisfaction, but they're both really solid options.

― a_p (a_p), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I have one or two nightmare a year that I failed one class senior year (usually government, which is odd - I even killed on the AP test for that one) and someone figured it out and now I'm having to go every other day for a semester to make it up even though I have my diploma. (Clear implication: I'm still in the same town and bitter about it.)

A new twist on that one is having to attend one class in junior high while in my dream I'm in high school or college.

Between these and recurring waitmares, I'd kill for some nice, normal serial killer-torture dreams.

― milo (milo), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

one side of the library at zoo-mass was sinking but it had nothing to do with the weight of books and everything to do with the rapid growth of the physical plant of the university and the changes to the water table/drainage of the campus.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I 'flunked out' after my two semesters (cumulative GPA - .43 or something) but they let me back in after a semester.

Dropping out before you flunk out is generally preferable.

― milo (milo), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

You got lucky Alex; those are the best letters.

― Matilda Wormwood (Mary ), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, my ex-alma-mater really DID have library problems!

"The Homer Babbidge Library at the University of Connecticut at Storrs has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978, suffering from a bulging brick facade and concrete floors sagging under their own weight. Five different contractors worked on those walls, and a common suspicion was that the concrete used in the floor pour had been watered. Engineers and architects blamed the problems on design flaws, substandard materials, and shoddy workmanship; meanwhile, the edifice underwent an $18 million repair project in 1995 to correct its problems."

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Wednesday, 13 December 2006 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I am considering dropping out!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 14 December 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link

HI DERE

― jim (jim), Thursday, 14 December 2006 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link

if i were still in school, i would have one semester left before graduation but honestly, i'm soooo much happier than any of my former classmates.

― ian (orion), Thursday, 14 December 2006 06:14 (seventeen years ago) link

akm, do you live in the U.S.? University Without Walls, through UMASS, is an easy way to finish your degree - and they do long distance learning. Might be expensive for out of state, but they'd probably work with you to make it quick and easy.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Thursday, 14 December 2006 14:54 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

NEVER FORGET

― a_p (a_p), Monday, 12 February 2007 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I had a dream that I was back in school last night =:O

I also had a dream that John Madden interrupted some kind of "science murder" investigation being conducted by [redacted person] and myself to make us all watch http://niggastolemyyoshi.ytmnd.com. I was all like wtf, you're being rude and then someone who I didn't know was like, "You need to read this man's writings" all serious like Madden is a religion. Then Madden invited everyone to "lesbian baseball" which was pretty cool of him.

That made up for the "in school" dream.

― Allyzay P. Boxcars (trm), Monday, 12 February 2007 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link

UH sorry to mistake this for dreams thread, I never have dreams and then two vivid ones in one night is fucking with me. back to dropping out!

― Allyzay P. Boxcars (trm), Monday, 12 February 2007 04:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh God, I dreamed that I was back in school for YEARS. ACK!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 12 February 2007 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link

It was really awful. I don't even remember what exactly happened, like somehow it caught up to me that I didn't actually pass my economics class and they took away my degree was the plot and I was trying to figure out methods around this that didn't involve going back to that class ever again.

― Allyzay P. Boxcars (trm), Monday, 12 February 2007 04:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I was going to share my dropout experience but that madden dream has thrown me a bit, to be honest.

― haitch (not haitch) (haitch), Monday, 12 February 2007 04:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i used to have dreams about being thrown back into high school, too -- that i hadn't passed some bullshit class or other, and there i was stuck in a classroom with kids 5 years younger than me.

― Eisbär (Eisbär), Monday, 12 February 2007 05:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I read John Madden's writings when I was in middle school
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/83/9b/95e5225b9da0dc84a311e010.L.jpg

I read some awesome books about hockey too but I don't remember what they were called!

― dar1a g (dar1a g), Monday, 12 February 2007 05:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i dropped out of school twice - both times i failed all my classes at the semester because i missed finals (medical reasons) - but eventually i graduated. i graduated five years ago, but i still have crazy nightmares about missing finals.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 12 February 2007 05:28 (seventeen years ago) link

to be honest I was a total dork and read everything in the entire public library, not only books about football

hey maybe i should go back to school just so i can mess up and drop out of another school

is there a way this could be performance art y/n

― dar1a g (dar1a g), Monday, 12 February 2007 05:29 (seventeen years ago) link

― friday on the porch (lfam), Monday, 12 February 2007 05:36 (seventeen years ago) link

dar1a you are awesome except for the redskins thing

i might as well have dropped out

― m00kiepr00f (m00kiepr00f), Monday, 12 February 2007 05:38 (seventeen years ago) link

haha i just ws up (k AM up, train leaves in 4 hrs) visiting my 'alma mater' wich refused to allow me to continue attending

i ws up for the wkend of feb 2nd, supposed to leave feb 5th. it is now feb 12th. i missed college so much i missed my trains! 6 times!

― nervous (nervous), Monday, 12 February 2007 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link

call me stupid (cause i am of course) but why kill yourself if you can drop out? ok, i know, i know, they are depressed... but still... :-(

― nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 12 February 2007 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Way to not understand depression, nathalie.

For example, it can be seen as kind of embarrassing/a sign of failure to have to drop out, not really what you need when you already feel shite. I found telling my parents I was dropping out of university one of the hardest things I'd ever had to do in my life. But I had to do it. And they understood. Not everyone else is that lucky.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 12 February 2007 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i know, ailsa, i know. i do understand depression... i just find it so depressing that they can't see that there's another way out. i remember telling my parents and it was EXTREMELY hard... my mom didn't (and still doesn't?) understand. she found i just quit and you (i) shouldn't do that.

― nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

"One Knee Equals Two Feet" = this is why I failed math 6 times isn't it.

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Monday, 12 February 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Depression not all bunnies and cupcakes! Hold the front pages!

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

ailsa, WOW, did not realize this despite being in one. *sigh*

― nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

having been in one. maybe i slipped here...

― nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Right, so surely you should understand that sometimes people just want to die and can't see anything past that? And that no-one (complete tools with hearts of stone excluded) thinks that it's a barrel of laughs? I don't think you need to have suffered depression to know it's depressing when people get so desperate that they can't see light in anything.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Monday, 12 February 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i am 'taking time off.' i don;t really intend to go back if i can help it, despite the fact that i only have one semester left. if i don;t end up in new york this summer (fingers crossed), i probably will finish it up.

― the table is the table (trees), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 04:42 (seventeen years ago) link

ps- i am not in school because i was pretty much ready to jump off of this building here, onto the walkway below. brutal(ist).

http://oberlin.edu/library/images/muddli.jpg

― the table is the table (trees), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 04:49 (seventeen years ago) link

they make it so easy to get on the roof!

― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link

if you're implying what i think you are, leo...

― the table is the table (trees), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 05:05 (seventeen years ago) link

seriously, what are you saying?

― the table is the table (trees), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm saying that there is a sundeck in the middle and you can just drag a table to the edge and put a chair on it and climb onto the roof and jump off and we are lucky that people haven't done it

― friday on the porch (lfam), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link

(i posted this before i think, but so it captures my experience exactly)

telling your parents you dropped out:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/phineasathome.jpg

― Bob Six (Bob Six), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 08:43 (seventeen years ago) link

tell me about it. all the parents talk about is 'job job job job job.' FUCK OFF I AM READING.

― the table is the table (trees), Thursday, 15 February 2007 04:33 (seventeen years ago) link

(also sorry lfam, as i said, i was in a weird place last night).

(we are lucky no one's done that. did you ever hear about the people rappelling down the side of the building, though? that was apparently a sight to see)

― the table is the table (trees), Thursday, 15 February 2007 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

― dr ghost rider (a_p), Tuesday, 24 April 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i missed unemployed youth!

― Eisbär, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:57 (seventeen years ago) link

test

― Eisbär, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 01:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i should've never went back to college because it didn't do a damn thing for me. oh well, at least i never went back to high school? except high school is free and college wasn't, i did things all wrong ;_1

― Hash Tit's, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

parents just don't understand

this one is impossible to even mention around my mom because she's like "oh, if only you'd finished your master's" & none of these responses yet have worked - "it's not useful for anything/I am not able to do the work/I'm an adult and I say no/if you want an ivy league degree so badly plz get one yourself"

― 1000 Tony Romo DJs, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

my mom was like that for a while too. i had an $80k per year job at age 20 and she was still like, "well if you'd just go back to college you'd be doing so well for yourself"

ps i now have a $40k job per year. thanks mom.

― Hash Tit's, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

my mom's general outlook on life is "woe is everything" though, i shouldn't take it personal

at least i'm free now, except for the debt, but i'll take the debt over another year of scraping by on a $14k stipend and being utterly miserable 100% of the time

― 1000 Tony Romo DJs, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

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