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"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...

School has never been a place for me, even going through high school made me depressed. I never felt good enough, or "smart" enough because I didn't care to absorb what was always meaningless to me. Homework was beyond stressing when I...

College doesn't equal knowledge. I just learned this a few weeks ago.
My entire life, I've been indoctrinated with the notion that succeeding in school is the only way to live a happy life. As time went on and as I was brainwashed by my...

I know, it sounds really ridiculous.  Who in their right mind would be determined to drop out of college? It sounds like it would be an easy thing to do, but at the time, it really wasn't.
Let me get one thing straight.  I...

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...

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 :)

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

I've dropped out of college not once, not thrice, but twice. I was called a fool for my decision, and am still pestered by well-meaning relatives. What made dropping out seem especially stoopid is the fact that I didn't have to pay a...

If school ever comes up in conversation and I mention that I dropped out of college, I get the typical, "Oh, I am sorry, what are you going to do with your life now?" As if everyone MUST have a college degree to be successful. I guess...

I graduated high school in 2003. I went to a university and thought I had my life figured out. Oh so wrong I was. I left college than rejoined college, left again and rejoined and will be leaving for the last time when my finals are...

I spent the last year and a half paving my way to the best music school in america-- Berklee college of music.  Knowing that legends such as John Mayer and Quincy Jones had attended, I knew that I needed to go there too.  ...

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...

I hate to study. I hate doing homework. I hate lectures.

I cannot function in school anymore.

College isn't for everyone, and it certainly wasn't for me.

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...

I dropped out of college one semester before I was done. I was already approved to walk through graduation and was listed in the local paper as a student graduating with high honors. I had been on the deans list... the presidents...

I Decided to Leave school. The school I was going to was 4,000 miles away From my Grand Father And Kids. So I decided to Stay here and Pursue my career in Nursing (CNA..) I am also Planning on Getting Married The End of This Year.. To...

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

....And I'm paying for it now.
I wish I could turn back the clock on my silly decision.
It's near impossible to find a job that is on the same level as my previous role because I don't have a degree. I'm faced with data entry and...

...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...