In the early hours of this morning, in my most pensive moments, I wrote my father an e-mail with "Why college isn't for everyone" in the subject line. In the e-mail I forwarded him an article from an old MSN money post (http://money.msn.com/saving-money-tips/post.aspx?post=7432d686-f2e7-482b-a2e7-b5a630e2bec8)
Now, for the past year I've been attending a pretty nice university here in Arizona. My parents have decided to pay for it and I will never have to worry about student loans or debt in my lifetime. I've decided to drop-out to pursue my venture which is an e-commerce business that fills a pretty significant need (will disclose details on my niche in a future progress thread..). My parents are firm believers that education is the key to success in this country, and while I do agree that education itself will provide opportunities, I believe that self-education is far more beneficial than formal education. In college, we learn and spend a lot of time on bullshit that will not necessarily serve or benefit us in the future. Before I decided to drop out, I had been taking some classes that will further help my venture and while the semester isn't over yet, I had a fairly huge assignment that I had due in one of my CSS classes (and while I'm not excellent at coding, I am still efficient enough to build a standard website.) I looked at the task and looked at the points I could accumulate for this assignment and asked myself:
"Is a grade in this class REALLY going to matter?"
I've been asking myself that a lot since last year. I hate grades. The whole notion just seems stupid to me, that someone is only "good" at something because someone else gave them an "A". I have always hated school and though I've always excelled in academia it simply does not fill my soul. I don't find anything valuable at school besides the things I choose to learn. I don't really like people my age either. I have never liked the curriculum here in the U.S (lived and went to school abroad in my younger years..) At some point, I will probably get an academic suspension due to the classes I've dropped that correspond to my major. My advisor isn't very helpful, but I think all academic advisors don't really know shit to begin with..
I really don't care about school, even after graduating High-school I did not foresee college in my near future but because of my parents insistent talk on "the value of formal education", I went along with it.
I have no confusion as to what I want in life my goals and plans are very clear to me. The problem is, my parents aren't very "fastlane savvy" (both were born in 1948, mom's a nurse and dad's an engineer) They have no idea that I've been building a business, they have no idea that I'm even at all entrepreneurial (I'm fairly distant from my family and don't really disclose much about myself..) except for this morning when I decided to write my father an e-mail. And while he hasn't responded to it yet as he is still asleep, I am really nervous about his reaction and I know he will not take this lightly.
Sorry if this came off as a rant, I just really would appreciate some wisdom or words of advice on how to handle parents that are not so supportive of their kid dropping out of *gasp* college.
Thanks for reading.
Now, for the past year I've been attending a pretty nice university here in Arizona. My parents have decided to pay for it and I will never have to worry about student loans or debt in my lifetime. I've decided to drop-out to pursue my venture which is an e-commerce business that fills a pretty significant need (will disclose details on my niche in a future progress thread..). My parents are firm believers that education is the key to success in this country, and while I do agree that education itself will provide opportunities, I believe that self-education is far more beneficial than formal education. In college, we learn and spend a lot of time on bullshit that will not necessarily serve or benefit us in the future. Before I decided to drop out, I had been taking some classes that will further help my venture and while the semester isn't over yet, I had a fairly huge assignment that I had due in one of my CSS classes (and while I'm not excellent at coding, I am still efficient enough to build a standard website.) I looked at the task and looked at the points I could accumulate for this assignment and asked myself:
"Is a grade in this class REALLY going to matter?"
I've been asking myself that a lot since last year. I hate grades. The whole notion just seems stupid to me, that someone is only "good" at something because someone else gave them an "A". I have always hated school and though I've always excelled in academia it simply does not fill my soul. I don't find anything valuable at school besides the things I choose to learn. I don't really like people my age either. I have never liked the curriculum here in the U.S (lived and went to school abroad in my younger years..) At some point, I will probably get an academic suspension due to the classes I've dropped that correspond to my major. My advisor isn't very helpful, but I think all academic advisors don't really know shit to begin with..
I really don't care about school, even after graduating High-school I did not foresee college in my near future but because of my parents insistent talk on "the value of formal education", I went along with it.
I have no confusion as to what I want in life my goals and plans are very clear to me. The problem is, my parents aren't very "fastlane savvy" (both were born in 1948, mom's a nurse and dad's an engineer) They have no idea that I've been building a business, they have no idea that I'm even at all entrepreneurial (I'm fairly distant from my family and don't really disclose much about myself..) except for this morning when I decided to write my father an e-mail. And while he hasn't responded to it yet as he is still asleep, I am really nervous about his reaction and I know he will not take this lightly.
Sorry if this came off as a rant, I just really would appreciate some wisdom or words of advice on how to handle parents that are not so supportive of their kid dropping out of *gasp* college.
Thanks for reading.
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