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I'm among those students who dropped out of high school to accelerate my escape. I guess the phrase drop out hasn't dropped its negative connotations, so the au
by stellar678 17y ago
I'm among those students who dropped out of high school to accelerate my escape. I guess the phrase drop out hasn't dropped its negative connotations, so the author was using it to grab attention. But the essay is really about alternative paths to life goals, which is what many 'high school dropouts' are after.
- rdl 17y agoI also dropped out of high school (and never bothered to get a GED; I went to college for a while and then dropped out to do a startup, so I've ended up with neither diploma). It's kind of fun being able to put "high school dropout" on forms, while not being a deadbeat.
- stellar678 17y agoI'm impressed you got a college to accept your application without some kind of high school equivalency certification. How'd you manage that? A few years out of school, however, and it's become very clear to me that "I just worked on this project for 6 months where we learned XYZ, had some hard times and eventually failed/succeeded/moved on." is much more attractive to the kind of people I want to work with than "I graduated cum laude from XYZ special university."
- rdl 17y agoI was 16. MIT doesn't really care about high school diplomas. I'd already done 1580/1600 SAT and had a grad student and associate prof at MIT write letters of recommendation based on performance in a summer program (social engineering...)