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Hurray!!! Hurray!!! I finally graduated today. For, today is the day I was finally smart enough to drop out of school.

"You’re dropping out of school?What do you mean you’re dropping out of school?How are you ever going to make a living?  Afford a house, a car, a family?How in the world will you ever make something of yourself?How will you ever...

I failed out of university last semester.

List of people who never graduated from college:
F Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
Woody Allen
Steve Martin
Ellen DeGeneres
Bill Gates
Michael Dell
Tom Hanks
Richard Gere
Brad...

But I can't handle going back to college right now. There are so many things that I am curious about, and I miss learning about the things I love. Most of my classes were geared towards music education. I intended to have a career...

I was lucky enough to have been offered a place at London College of Printing, now London College of Communication, set in the lovely area of Elephant and Castle. My mate was lucky enough to get the Farringdon campus!
I started a...

Actually, I've never made it to college.I dropped out of middle school Easter Holiday 1977, a week before my 16th birthday.Most of what I know -my wisdom, so to speak *cough*- comes from experience and self-learning.I am lucky to have...

well right now I'm just taking a break.  Seriously, it's just a break.  I miss it a lot!  I don't need school to learn but I do need it to ensure I don't work at a dead-end job forever.  I have a brain and maybe it...

yes, i've been kicked out a second time. I hate myself at this point, and my parents who loving announce to the whole world what a failure i am, adds more to my already lacking self esteem. I was put in a program i hate, by my parents...

I dropped out after 4 semesters. 2 more and I would've gotten my diploma. My coursemates who just wander aimlessly thru and submit substandard work have their diplomas. Me the over-excited over-serious student with no social life who...

I was at a college party and was drinking a little bit "too much" and I got a little dizzy and literally dropped outside a  first floor window and landed on my backside LOL..so I guess I "dropped out" on a technicality :)

if it we're possible, I would like to encourage the change of this groups image. It doesn't matter much, it is true that gates level of financial success might be sort of a heroic ideal of inspiration, that a college drop out can still...

When I left my marriage I was working full time at a daycare which made things easier in some ways as it gave me the needed income to start over and get my feet under me.  I love that job but was scheduled for a layoff the following...

lot of pressure at the time everything went.i had no money so i left and have been working last 4 years = hope to go back this year and study psychology. It was computers i was studyin before

I've dropped out and dropped in, about four times now. I seem to drop-in and manage to pull a decent GPA when I'm acutally attending, but then usually withdraw for financial reasons when I'm in a relationship.
 
Go figure.
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The harsh realities has kicked in, and I am overwhelmed with emotion. For now, this is my only outlet.

It's the beginning of the end of my college career. For three years, I failed to realize that college wasn't for me. Like everyone...

I've never had much of a drive to actually do much. I guess it's always sort of been a problem, but I've gotten by. 
In August of 2007, I began my college journey. Almost instantly, I hated it. I hated how small it was and...

You see, before my life was in this shambles, although I'm not the smartest kid I did well in my studies. I skipped a grade, got into a prestigious high school, and defied the odds. It hurts what could have been and what my life has...

My SAT score wasn't good enough for the state university I wanted to go to, so I went to a smaller college.  I did fairly well there, and after two years I applied and got acceppted at that big university.  After a...

I dropped out, got married, got divorced, and went back to get my degree. Sounds so simple, but it wasn't. LOL

...Not really. In fact, there isn't anything further from the truth. I dropped out because I see no future in my life. My life is going nowhere. I'm in limbo right now; between going on living with no goal in sight or dropping dead...