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- demonbaby, on 12/19/2008, -22/+673So true. Spending four years memorizing inane details about Hemingway novels and colonial politics just long enough to regurgitate them onto a test did nothing for my eventual career. The hours I spent outside of school teaching myself Photoshop and HTML, however, did pretty amazing things for me.
- JoshMcg, on 12/19/2008, -8/+428400 hours of homework in 11th grade? You're working too hard.
- chubbymandoo, on 12/19/2008, -4/+354I thought PERL was a girl at first.
- 80hd, on 12/19/2008, -4/+280Do I digg the one submitted at 1:02AM or the 1:04AM submission??
- tattertech, on 12/19/2008, -0/+264And I bet you'll never forget those subsequent charges placed against you.
- PGPirate, on 12/19/2008, -5/+191Is Perl the name of his palm?
- t0mmmmmmm, on 12/19/2008, -9/+185bury both
- inactive, on 12/19/2008, -7/+181Sure, if your life ambition is to write code.
- vesture, on 12/19/2008, -19/+150400 hours of homework?? lol i'd be suprised if my total was 10 hours, high school is a joke
- MonkeyNews, on 12/19/2008, -5/+135That's not the point - learning about poetry, math, art, history, geography etc give you a well rounded and varied education and just because you don't use them in your future career it does not mean they are worthless.
Math, for example, helps trains a young mind to think in a logical and analytical manner. Other subjects have other advantages.
I am a senior web designer, so nearly everything I learnt in school isn't used in what I do as a job (I learnt in my own time) - but I don't regret for a second the lessons I got in History, Math, Physics and English. They were all very important in shaping me into who I am today. - Wade, on 12/19/2008, -6/+110Super secret XKCD comic...
http://i41.tinypic.com/2cpas1x.gif - rhysboy84, on 12/19/2008, -1/+102I agree. I self taught myself HTML, and over the course of my education years, I was taught it 10 times, all the times, they said "Frames are the way forward".
Still, wished they taught my PHP, instead of "Microsoft Pseudo Code" as I'm a really bad coder :( - JoeMerchant, on 12/19/2008, -16/+101
Actually, spending four years being an obedient drone prepared you to not tell the world to F off every single time something doesn't suit you. That is doing some pretty amazing things for you like:
- enabling you to hold a job for more than a month at a time
- keeping you out of jail
- preventing you from pissing off someone so badly that they do you serious bodily harm for being such a jerk
Rage against the machine, it deserves it, but without it you'd be really screwed. - dstywho, on 12/19/2008, -1/+75Ruby is her younger sister
- Verdanic, on 12/19/2008, -4/+76High school annoyed me. I knew I was there getting nothing out of it for the last three years, but I was completely helpless to do anything about it. I ***** mastered Tetris and Bejeweled, though.
- Sublex, on 12/19/2008, -2/+71...PHP?
:'( - levelwave, on 12/19/2008, -2/+69b/c it's the same mentality of those dropping out of school to be a mechanic... "I just wanna work on cars dad". The purpose of school is not to teach you a trade, that's called vocational school.... it's to teach you *how* to learn so you can excel in your career/life.
- inactive, on 12/19/2008, -7/+73The dumb ones have to.
- cloudberries, on 12/19/2008, -1/+66"Get off the internet"? We built the goddamn thing. You get off it.
- serif69, on 12/19/2008, -0/+62Is the Nigerian revolution what deposed the father of that dude who keeps emailing me?
- DarQraven, on 12/19/2008, -1/+59You guys will not believe this, but not every single person becomes a web designer!
I know this is a shocking concept, but let's put it this way.
You want to become an engineer (be it civil, automotive, architectural, industrial, etc). How are you going to figure out how to schematize a certain mechanic principle? How do you learn the standards and ways to communicate on a technical level? How do you learn to do double integrals? How will you get experience in materials science? How do you know how to interact with the other disciplines that affect your job? How do you learn to analyze a certain technology? How do you learn about production capabilities and capacity?
In other words, how do you learn stuff you actually *need* the education and school's facilities for if you're just sitting at home browsing the web?
Trust me, a regular engineering firm will not hire you on the premise that you've read some books and websites at home.
I'd say web design is pretty easy to get into, considering the huge amount of tutorials, info on the web and the relatively low to non-existant costs of entry into the business.
Not so with about 90% of all other high-education jobs in the world - facespaz, on 12/19/2008, -1/+52Comment in the 1:02 and then tell the 1:04 people you have news from the future.
- crgnetworks, on 12/19/2008, -6/+54@repjackson
Okay Neo. - Spem, on 12/19/2008, -0/+47Ah yes, the girl's bathroom. That is where I spent that one weekend messing around with Perl. ;)
- tinkafoo, on 12/19/2008, -2/+49I learned how to edit Doom levels, and now I run a mainframe.
..not sure what that means, but there you go. - honeybrass, on 12/19/2008, -0/+47either one, the intent of the cartoon still stands, particularly if Perl is from a rich family.
- karlw, on 12/19/2008, -1/+45I learned ASP .. . look where it got me.
- Vorin, on 12/19/2008, -0/+41..or the resulting jail time, wherein you had another special ten minutes in the bathroom with "Frank"
- tgc1, on 12/19/2008, -0/+40Where DID it get you I wonder? I'm in the PHP crowd. I'm curious how you ASP people are doing.
- muffcakes, on 12/19/2008, -0/+39I can't read either so I have no idea what anybody is saying and I'm just hitting random keys hoping that they make words.
- mnetlucas, on 12/19/2008, -3/+411:03
- unusualbob, on 12/19/2008, -2/+37average number of school days in my county is 180
thats only 2.2 hours per day average - blueZhift, on 12/19/2008, -0/+35Not a huge fan of Perl, but my $5 investment in a book on Perl got me a quick $500 contract when I really needed it. Thank you Perl!
- nubnub, on 12/19/2008, -1/+35PHP isn't that hard.
- chadsmith729, on 12/19/2008, -0/+34Mine was spending one Christmas break in 10th grade with a PHP book. That's what altered my entire career path, and I have never been happier.
- sprint84, on 12/19/2008, -0/+34The name is PERL
- JackSchittt, on 12/19/2008, -1/+34I actually took a typing class in an attempt to get laid. I figured "23 girls in the class. I've GOT to be able to get ONE of them into bed. Right?.........Right?".
Wrong.
But that typing class helped me out a LOT more than the other 99% of classes I took in high school. - DRT23, on 12/19/2008, -0/+32Sorry, we outnumber you.
- HyperZiper, on 12/19/2008, -1/+33wait. "Perl" isn't a girl's name?
-.-"
I don't know bout you guys, but messing with girls came way more useful in life than learning about the Nigerian revolution. - jmandawg, on 12/19/2008, -5/+35He's missing the "one weekend messing with penis"
- Gerticus, on 12/19/2008, -0/+29Yep, anyone who listens to Pink Floyd is automatically intelligent.
Tool. - inactive, on 12/19/2008, -0/+29Give him a break, he types pretty well for a guy with four fingers left.
- Aethirig, on 12/19/2008, -3/+32I don't think anyone's seriously advocating dropping out of high school to code.
- Halokhan, on 12/19/2008, -0/+28I would totally rail her.
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 12/19/2008, -1/+29That's funny. Is that what you got out of high-school? I learned that people with power do and will abuse it. I learned that lying to those people could get you far, but honesty is a far more effective and sophisticated form of manipulation. I learned the difference between a true friend and a fair weather pale. I learned that I hated most of what I was made to do in school, and that I was much more successful if I focused on the things I enjoyed. That realization lead naturally into understanding that I would be much happier and more successful doing what I enjoyed instead of doing what I was told I should do. I learned that bad rules are worth defying and speaking out against when the personal consequences are proportional to the injustice of the rule. Those are some of the things I learned in high-school.
You learned to keep your head down and follow the rules, huh? Well, I guess we all have our own experiences.
For the record, I've held more than one job for longer than a month (interrupted by school). I've never been in a real fight of any kind or been "beaten-up", and I've never been to jail. I think your theory about the benefits of being an "obedient drone", as you put it, is tragically skewed and unfounded. Just because you don't mindlessly follow the obvious path of unhappy mediocrity doesn't mean you have to be an ***** or a criminal. - inactive, on 12/19/2008, -5/+32How is Obama going to change this?
- zip000, on 12/19/2008, -2/+28From my experience, it's better to have to work for something than to get it easily.
Getting things easily makes you weak and lazy.
I'd rather be moderately intelligent and have to work for stuff than be very intelligent and never have to try.
Unfortunately, I'm only moderately intelligent and still never had to try because of my crappy school system, so I'm not all that bright yet have the laziness of those that are. - cawpin, on 12/19/2008, -1/+27Hell yeah. Tetris on the TI-83.
- inactive, on 12/19/2008, -1/+23I graduated in 1986, Computer stuff wasn't really main stream yet....
but, building my first computer and encouraging my best friend (girl) to do the same.........we are both in IT now. I can't imagine what I would be doing if I didn't mess with computers as NOTHING in HS "prepared" me for anything except that typing class. -
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