Creation Museum...Hey Finn, wanna go?

[Rex E.]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

I never dropped out entirely, I just took to skipping classes and hanging out at the party spots. I barely maintained enough to pass....on test scores. I would skip classes all week long, then take the tests and score very high. It used to drive my parents and teachers nuts. Then my father noticed I would read the entire text book in the first week, or so. The rest of the year, I would screw off, sleep in class or skip as many days as I could.

I wasn't "behind" the class. I was way ahead of most of them and bored with waiting for them to catch up.

I never went to college because of;

A). My grades, low due to attendence and refusal to do much, if any homework.

B). I figured it just be more of the same.

It was a mistake, of course. I think I would have found college much more interesting and engaging. But, instead, I joined the Navy. Which was an invaluable experience in itself. I learned a whole lot about the real world in those days. Things that will stay with me forever, and I am deeply thankfull for that.

I got one of the two right. Should have done both.

Dave

WOW! We really have been down some similar paths. I never skipped a day of school in my life but I may as well have. I was so bored in school that I just could not pay attention. I failed the second semester of English class my freshman year because I was so bored waiting for the rest of the class. Had to go to summer school that summer and guess what, I completed that semester of English in three days with stunning grades. I was in a rural area so there was no A.P. courses offered or I'd have done that.

I skipped the military as the first Iraq war was going on and I couldn't see why we were there, didn't want to support it and was having a hard time walking away from the ladies and the party. These two things led to me not finishing (imagine that) and off to work I went.....