Topic: Anyone here in school?

[95yjman]

Anyone here in college and want to rank about it? I'm in the middle half of my degree but I'm getting so burn out on school...Keep telling myself to keep on pushing but with working full time and going to school it gets crazy.  Can't wait to get this stuff over and not to mention one of the classes I'm in now! can't stand the guy...

[WranglerCOdy]

hahaha i am still in high school.


and i have built my jeep by my self and on my own dime.

[95yjman]

dude I miss my high school days...life was so easy back then...living at home and the money I made was all mine to spend on the Jeep...now I got these things called bills

[TrailsLessTaken]

I know how you feel Alan, Im finishng up my degree in Residential Construction at Ivy Tech.  I got 1 class this summer, and two more this fall and I'm done for the moment.  Just stick with it, it will be worth it when you get if finished.  It sucks getting turned down for a job cause you dont have a degree.  Some of the jobs I applied for I had more experience than the other people but they had the degree and that was the only reason they got hired. 

[Sine Deviance]

College isn't for everyone.

I was going for a computer engineering degree. What a load of bullshit. I dropped after my first semester and started my own technology company. Since then, I've also started a music production/recording company. My mom and I are also about to start a separate T-Shirt company. Contrary to popular belief, you do NOT need a degree to be successful. Far from it, in fact; the money you spend getting said degree will often make it harder for you to become successful. All it takes to be successful is motivation, knowledge, and willpower. If you already know enough about your major to make money off it, maybe you don't need college.

You don't need a degree when you're working for yourself. It only matters when you're working for some other asshole. Just a thought.

One of these days I'd like to build Locost 7's (frames, shells, complete turn-key cars, etc.) and Jeep fabbed parts (bumpers, mirror relocation brackets, winch pans, etc.) as side businesses. It always pays to diversify. And plus, I REALLY want my own Locost 7

[95yjman]

I know how you feel Alan, Im finishng up my degree in Residential Construction at Ivy Tech.  I got 1 class this summer, and two more this fall and I'm done for the moment.  Just stick with it, it will be worth it when you get if finished.  It sucks getting turned down for a job cause you dont have a degree.  Some of the jobs I applied for I had more experience than the other people but they had the degree and that was the only reason they got hired. 

I'm at Ivy tech up here in Fort Wayne, their changing a bunch of things in my program so I'm gonna end up having to take a math class or two   done with all the english stuff though!

[stan98tj]

i just finished school. went just about 4yrs before i decided i wanted to sort of change my major..and that cost me another 3yrs. either way im done. i quit the job i had while i was in school and im lookin for a job in my field as we speak. i dont regret changing my mind, i dont regret the horrible finals weeks, the stress, the BS, the lack of sleep, the licensing exams etc. push through it. now all i have to worry about is not crashing whatever multimillion dollar ship ill be assigned to and giving half my paycheck to uncle sam and the student loan companies....ah yes, the joys of having gone to college.

[95yjman]

I hear ya man, I'm gonna have a brand new Jeep payment by the time I'm done...What did you go for?  The being on a ship part peaked my interest

[TrailsLessTaken]

I'm at Ivy tech up here in Fort Wayne, their changing a bunch of things in my program so I'm gonna end up having to take a math class or two  done with all the english stuff though!

You might talk with your advisor, My program changed and my advisor said I just have to take the classes that were on the list when I first started the program because I was worried cause they added a few more classes on to the construction program but he said not to worry about them.  I just need what was on the list when i started back in '04

[bammerman]

I am working on my 4th degree in network security and ethical hacking at UAT.  It def. burns you out sometimes.

[TahoeYJ]

I've been in and out of the local junior college since high school (2005). I planned on signing up for classes for this spring semester, but once again my enemy procrastination caught up to me  :brick But the more and more I think about it, the more I keep telling myself I NEED to go back, for my own sake. My problem is I haven't the slightest clue what I want to do... And now that it's been almost 5 years, I wish I would have at least finished up my general ed courses so I could focus on core classes once I figure out wtf I want to do. Psychology is one course of study that interests me and I've already taken 3 semesters of it, just not sure if I want to pursue it. I took some AutoCAD courses in high school and took a semester at the JC right out of high school and really wanted to become an engineer, but I don't like math (I can do it, I just don't like it) so that kind of scared me away...

I don't want to say school isn't for me, but it just might not be my thing... Fortunately, I figure I'm still young enough that I could still go back and get a degree by my late 20's...

[95yjman]

I've been in and out of the local junior college since high school (2005). I planned on signing up for classes for this spring semester, but once again my enemy procrastination caught up to me  :brick But the more and more I think about it, the more I keep telling myself I NEED to go back, for my own sake. My problem is I haven't the slightest clue what I want to do... And now that it's been almost 5 years, I wish I would have at least finished up my general ed courses so I could focus on core classes once I figure out wtf I want to do. Psychology is one course of study that interests me and I've already taken 3 semesters of it, just not sure if I want to pursue it. I took some AutoCAD courses in high school and took a semester at the JC right out of high school and really wanted to become an engineer, but I don't like math (I can do it, I just don't like it) so that kind of scared me away...

I don't want to say school isn't for me, but it just might not be my thing... Fortunately, I figure I'm still young enough that I could still go back and get a degree by my late 20's...

heck we have a 65 year old man in one of my classes...he has some cool war stories too

[chardrc]

im a sophomore at the U of M for mechanics engineering... this week sucks 4 midterms, 3 major papers, and then then normal week to week hwk.. spent the last 2 weekends working on 1 damn thermo report... at-least when may comes around ill be half way done. schools realy know how to make all your money go away.

[TahoeYJ]

heck we have a 65 year old man in one of my classes...he has some cool war stories too

There's people even older than that, that attend the JC here! I bet there's people pushing 80 there.

My brother told me, right after I had turned 19, that I was "too old to go back to schol"... Ooooook???  I have no idea why he thought that, but whatever...

I actually ran into an old childhood (not that it was long ago for me) friend and he's attending school locally to get his masters and he's the youngest in his class. He said most the folks are all older, mostly teachers, with families.

[uncw95yj]

I'm a freshman at UNCW and I'm close to burnt out already but I'm majoring in Criminal Justice so I can do it in 3 years if I try hard enough. I am transfering to UNCC though because of the atmosphere down here.