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I consider 4 years of my highschool a complete waste of time and would have loved to jump straight into a university right after elementary school. It would hav
by bitL 11y ago
I consider 4 years of my highschool a complete waste of time and would have loved to jump straight into a university right after elementary school. It would have been great to have OCW available at that time and not having to do everything myself including finding relevant books/sources.
Good for Ahaan he escaped it and I wish him the very best of luck @ MIT!
- eljimmy 11y agoOut of curiousity, why did you find it such a waste?
- legohead 11y agoI felt the same as bitL. I was in PEAK (gifted and talented) since the second grade. When I started High School, one of my freshmen classes was biology. We started the year off learning about cells -- something I had learned about in 3rd grade PEAK and still remembered clearly. I was actually pissed off that I was not being taught something new. From that point on, I didn't give two shits about high school. I scraped by with Cs and played computer games until I graduated. I did start college a little early my senior year, using a program that let me take half the day off to attend college. But I could have easily been going to college since 9th grade. As for the social stuff, I actually lost most of my friends in HS -- they all moved to other states, and I had no desire to gain new friends (I had good friends on the internet, that I still have to this day, ~20 years later).
- peter303 11y agoI think I read the entire non fiction section of the local library to avoid my HS boredom. This was before the internet when you can find so much more online.