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<blockquote data-quote="flatwins" data-source="post: 2250658" data-attributes="member: 5655"><p>Growing up my dad told my brother and I "When" you go to college not "If" you go to college. So when I graduated HS I knew I would be going to college. Originally was going to go to UCO but had several friends that were going to OSU so off I went. In Jr High and HS, drums were my life so I tried out for the drumline at OSU, put in a lot of hard work but had some of the funnest times of my life.</p><p> I wasn't much of a student and school was priority 3. Work was priority 1, everything else I wanted to do was priority 2 and school came last. I really screwed up badly along the way but held on and finished. With my transcript I am living proof that someone can beat the system: 18 hours of F, 9 hours of D. Changed my major after 4 years and took 6 years to graduate. Did the stupid stuff like paying off a truck with student loan money. Got a degree in Geographic Information Systems which at the time no one knew what the hell that meant. Nowadays GIS is a big field. Never used it though since I sorta fell into IT in 1995 and been there every since. </p><p> If I had to do it all over again... I would have not been a screw-off and would have focused on school more. I would have pushed myself a whole lot harder. I would have gotten an internship or gotten into the co-op programs. The people that do those come out of school with a great job. I probably would have gotten a chemical engineering degree.</p><p></p><p>By the way, I got married after my 4th year of school and still had 2 to go. It was a good thing too since being married helped me to focus on school more. Plus she could type a whole lot faster than me. </p><p></p><p>These days college is CRAZY expensive. I'm not sure what I'm going to tell my kids concerning college. They know what this bleedin' orange dude thinks about college but times are different. And truth be known, I won't have the money to send them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flatwins, post: 2250658, member: 5655"] Growing up my dad told my brother and I "When" you go to college not "If" you go to college. So when I graduated HS I knew I would be going to college. Originally was going to go to UCO but had several friends that were going to OSU so off I went. In Jr High and HS, drums were my life so I tried out for the drumline at OSU, put in a lot of hard work but had some of the funnest times of my life. I wasn't much of a student and school was priority 3. Work was priority 1, everything else I wanted to do was priority 2 and school came last. I really screwed up badly along the way but held on and finished. With my transcript I am living proof that someone can beat the system: 18 hours of F, 9 hours of D. Changed my major after 4 years and took 6 years to graduate. Did the stupid stuff like paying off a truck with student loan money. Got a degree in Geographic Information Systems which at the time no one knew what the hell that meant. Nowadays GIS is a big field. Never used it though since I sorta fell into IT in 1995 and been there every since. If I had to do it all over again... I would have not been a screw-off and would have focused on school more. I would have pushed myself a whole lot harder. I would have gotten an internship or gotten into the co-op programs. The people that do those come out of school with a great job. I probably would have gotten a chemical engineering degree. By the way, I got married after my 4th year of school and still had 2 to go. It was a good thing too since being married helped me to focus on school more. Plus she could type a whole lot faster than me. These days college is CRAZY expensive. I'm not sure what I'm going to tell my kids concerning college. They know what this bleedin' orange dude thinks about college but times are different. And truth be known, I won't have the money to send them. [/QUOTE]
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