Hello everyone,
I'm 20 years old. I went to community college after high school and did all my courses online, except for two while working full time.
Then, I took a year off and worked for the same company opening a store in Europe. I did that for almost a year and then moved back.
Now, I'm going to college out of state (also paying out of state tuition
). I transferred in with a 4.0.
My concern is that I'm very entrepreneurial in nature, and I find the 3 classes I'm taking (including 2 recitations), extremely boring. I'm open option right now (21 credits transferred out of 29), and planning on majoring in something creative (aka Journalism, Advertising etc) and minoring in German. Although I basically have to spend the rest of the year taking boring required classes - i.e. sociology, math, economics etc after taking a year of community college of boring classes that I also wasn't interested in at all. I feel like all of the things I'm "learning" could be learned reading a book for free, or watching television. The only thing I find interesting about my experience thus far is that I got onto the school radio station for photo/play by play for a local hockey team and do photo for the school paper.
I feel like college is just turning into a big game. For example, I never missed a class in one of my classes. I did all the homework, I took all the quizzes, and then I got a 95% on the practice midterm. Midterm rolls around - and its probably 3x as hard as the practice midterm was, and I get a 60% with a class average of a 65%, while being told that that's a "normal" average. I'd say the majority of the stuff on the exam was never taught in class. :bgh::bgh::bgh:
Anyways, I'm currently working on prototyping a device for the automotive market and planning on opening a company selling once I have the fitments and things ready. I know there's a demand for what I'm inventing (which doesn't exist) because when I google a description of it - there's about 50x car forums asking if it exists. I don't want to work in the slow lane. I've already been micromanaged through 45 hour weeks for two years on two sides of the world and know that I don't want to live my life like that. I have the funding to start my company - the question is - should I just focus on that and stop dealing with the nonsense, or will college eventually get more interesting and worth the opportunity cost?
I'm 20 years old. I went to community college after high school and did all my courses online, except for two while working full time.
Then, I took a year off and worked for the same company opening a store in Europe. I did that for almost a year and then moved back.
Now, I'm going to college out of state (also paying out of state tuition
). I transferred in with a 4.0. My concern is that I'm very entrepreneurial in nature, and I find the 3 classes I'm taking (including 2 recitations), extremely boring. I'm open option right now (21 credits transferred out of 29), and planning on majoring in something creative (aka Journalism, Advertising etc) and minoring in German. Although I basically have to spend the rest of the year taking boring required classes - i.e. sociology, math, economics etc after taking a year of community college of boring classes that I also wasn't interested in at all. I feel like all of the things I'm "learning" could be learned reading a book for free, or watching television. The only thing I find interesting about my experience thus far is that I got onto the school radio station for photo/play by play for a local hockey team and do photo for the school paper.
I feel like college is just turning into a big game. For example, I never missed a class in one of my classes. I did all the homework, I took all the quizzes, and then I got a 95% on the practice midterm. Midterm rolls around - and its probably 3x as hard as the practice midterm was, and I get a 60% with a class average of a 65%, while being told that that's a "normal" average. I'd say the majority of the stuff on the exam was never taught in class. :bgh::bgh::bgh:
Anyways, I'm currently working on prototyping a device for the automotive market and planning on opening a company selling once I have the fitments and things ready. I know there's a demand for what I'm inventing (which doesn't exist) because when I google a description of it - there's about 50x car forums asking if it exists. I don't want to work in the slow lane. I've already been micromanaged through 45 hour weeks for two years on two sides of the world and know that I don't want to live my life like that. I have the funding to start my company - the question is - should I just focus on that and stop dealing with the nonsense, or will college eventually get more interesting and worth the opportunity cost?
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