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   From: uctt@soda.csua.berkeley.edu   
      
   In article <8acc8172.0401131641.3a6f33ec@posting.google.com>,   
   LazyJ  wrote:   
   >I graduated from HS with a 1.7 GPA was accepted into a local 4-year   
   >state school in 1999.  Since then my grades have been like a roller   
      
   dude...just suck it up, graduate, and find a job.   
      
   school doesn't fit in with me very well either.  i don't mind learning new   
   things but i   
   hate being forced to study things that i have no interest in.  you learn a lot   
   of stuff   
   in school but you are also forced to learn a lot of crap that you don't care   
   to know.   
   i've never used the chinese remainder theorem or the turing machine or most of   
   the   
   stuff i had to learn in computer science theory classes.   
      
   as a result?  i did poorly in school.  my gpa was crap and i did basically   
   just enough   
   to graduate.   
      
   but when i went into the work force?  i did fine and have been doing fine.  my   
   career   
   is ok too (no problems moving up).   
      
   the problem with me was never a lack of intellect, it was always a lack of   
   motivation.   
   i still only work 9-5 and i don't love going to work every morning, but i do   
   what i   
   need to do at work to get everything done and do a good job to earn praise.   
      
   so think of it this way...suck it up, graduate, and you'll never have to go   
   back to   
   school again.  that's what i told myself and i never stepped foot in a   
   classroom   
   again since 1995.  my friends and peers ask me if i would ever go back to   
   school for a   
   masters or whatever...and i always say "no way".   
      
   i graduated with barely above a 2.0 in upper division in my major...the   
   minimum needed   
   to graduate.  C- is a 1.7 but still a passing grade.  i'll put it this way,   
   going into my   
   last class for my major...all of my grades were C+, C, or C- (never even got   
   higher   
   than a C+).  problem is that i had 1 C- more than C+ so i needed a C+ to get   
   exactly a   
   2.0 and graduate.  i worked my ass off that last semester (never worked that   
   hard in   
   school in my life) and i got an A-.  graduated, made millions (well maybe not   
   quite),   
   boughts cars, houses, sail boats, etc.   
      
   Dan.   
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