Political Theory

Re: Leaving high school early to attend community college

Malachi — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:52:56 GMT

I double majored in Caucasian Studies and Masculinology.

Re: Leaving high school early to attend community college

SkepticalMetal — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:10:07 GMT

What Malachi said is absolutely right. Your statement would be correct if it said "Degrees mean nothing if you don't have the right stuff...and even then they are usually a load of schlock."

Re: Leaving high school early to attend community college

Malachi — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:07:21 GMT

All means nothing if you dont have a degree..

wrong! all that matters is your ability to code. half the degrees out there are garbage anyway.

Re: Leaving high school early to attend community college

Buzz Killington — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:10:46 GMT

Meistro:
chasing women.

Unless you want to be charged with sexual harassment and imprisoned/put in a straightjacket, I strongly advise against chasing women.

Re: Leaving high school early to attend community college

Aristophanes — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 06:34:38 GMT

Ive learned c++ and a bit of java..

All means nothing if you dont have a degree..

This isn't true. If you make programs, mods, apps, etc. they are your "degree." This should be the most attractive option anyway because you can just sit in your pajamas and make them and market them online.

What did you do in high school to get expelled? We all went to high school, I did bad shit but never to the level of expulsion...just what inclines you to ideologically back anarchy?

Re: Leaving high school early to attend community college

Kelvin Silva — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:40:35 GMT

Get your highschool diploma. The people you will be competing against will have their own diploma and you have a GED makes you look like you can't handle basic high school. No reason to accept someone who has a GED when you have hundreds of others who put the time into high school.

That is assuming i ONLY get a ged.

I am also going to go to community college which is probably harder and more rigorous than high school.

Kinda a moot point but i understand the mentality you are bringing forward.

Re: Leaving high school early to attend community college

EmbraceLiberty — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 03:40:06 GMT

By the time he is 18 he would have his associates which would blow a highschool diploma out of the water. Sure, he's not going to be able to get a job til then but again he wouldn't have a highschool diploma until he was 18 so it wouldn't matter.

Re: Leaving high school early to attend community college

Andrew Cain — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 02:18:11 GMT

Get your highschool diploma. The people you will be competing against will have their own diploma and you have a GED makes you look like you can't handle basic high school. No reason to accept someone who has a GED when you have hundreds of others who put the time into high school.

Re: Leaving high school early to attend community college

Kelvin Silva — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 02:03:38 GMT

Learn computer programming. Seriously - it's awesome :D

Ive learned c++ and a bit of java..

All means nothing if you dont have a degree..

Thanks for the support guys..

Re: Leaving high school early to attend community college

Wheylous — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:47:42 GMT

Learn computer programming. Seriously - it's awesome :D

Re: Leaving high school early to attend community college

NonAntiAnarchist — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:01:10 GMT

I pretty much second the suggestions given here.

Get your GED and then give community college your best. If you do decently well, it will matter little that you did not finish highschool, and even your SATs will be significantly less important to prospective 4 year universities.

Re: Leaving high school early to attend community college

Anton — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 18:41:01 GMT

Well, you're standing at the crossroads and all you need now is to consider as many alternatives as possible. I'm definitely not in a position to advise you something, so I'll just share with you a couple of links.

1. 8 Alternatives to College

I found this blog a year and half ago, and since then I have been reading it occasionally. That guy (James Altucher) is an entrepreneur and shares his strories of ups and downs (mostly downs) in a very straighforward way. Based on what I've read, some of his ideas can be regarded as libertarian even though, as he claims, he doesn't associate himself with any political party.

Other links explore alternative ways of education.

2. Do-It-Yourself Degree.

I'm not a US citizen so I don't know whether it is feasible or not, but this guy shows how to earn a bachelor degree in a fast and, as far as I understand, debt-free way.

I found this site by reading this post. The author of the blog has recently finished a rather ingenious challenge - finish a 4year MIT program in one year. This is quite impressive and, I think, may be inspiring for you to consider a path of self-education.

http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/mit-challenge/

3. Finally, a book that had a huge impact on me.

How I found freedom in an unfree world by Harry Browne

Unfortunately, I can't find the exact site where I downloaded it a year ago, but there are plenty of sources still.

I hope something I posted makes sense; anyway, I wish you luck in your future aspirations.

Re: Leaving high school early to attend community college

BransonBow — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 17:33:05 GMT

EmbraceLiberty gave the best advice. I was in your position 10yrs ago and I wish I knew I had the option of dropping out and going to community college. Instead I wasted time at alt-ed and got expelled. If you do finish HS don't go to alt-ed, it's full of slackers and deliquents and you will seriously waste your time. You'll probably get so bored you'll get into more trouble. The only thing alt-ed is good for is finding parties and getting weed connects. As far as your parents, I would write out my argument, sit down with them and explain why going to HS is a waste of time (you know what you want to do and the diploma is worthless so why not get a ahead start instead of wasting your time) this may make you seem very mature and it might work.

The best advice was to do good in CC and keep your nose clean. A lot of college students screw up by partying hard their first few years then struggle to make it at the end. Get the hard stuff out of the way then let loose. By that time you'll be old enough to buy beer but young enough to still hang at college parties and you can snatch some socialist's girlfriend. You'll be the 2Chainz of libertarianism, girls will be like "You're different. You're so smart but you're such a bad ass. You totally destroyed my boyfriends equal work for equal pay argument. I wanna suck your cock." That's when you take the mutualist position to screw with their head like, "Nah baby, let's 69 I don't believe in hierarchy." Their boyfriends will be like "Jenny don't you see he's using his capitalist techniques to exploit you." He'll grab her by the arm then you go "I told you, socialists want to control you, they don't believe in the self determination of women. Look buddy, she wants to hug my balls not a tree. Go cry a river and give some fish a new home." She'll be like "Jeremy let me go, casual sex is empowering." Then you'll get laid and convert someone to libertarianism in one stroke (pun intended). Yeah screw high school, go to college.

Re: Leaving high school early to attend community college

EmbraceLiberty — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 01:35:23 GMT

Do your parents not want you to go?

Re: Leaving high school early to attend community college

Kelvin Silva — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 01:34:02 GMT

Thanks for the advice.

I mailed in a chspe registration so im good on that.

The only problem is getting parental approval to go to community college.