fidethefire:

What, are you HIGH? (Oooops, forgot the context ). Here are my thoughts:

School is your job at this stage in your life, and it is one of the BEST jobs anyone can have. I have a great job and I still wish I could afford to be a professional student.
We are lucky in this country. There are many places the in the rest of the world whre you would not be given the opportunity to drop out, they would have KICKED you out a long time ago without an opportunity to go to community college later. Don't waste your opportunity.
People -usually people without education- will try to present all kinds of ancedotal evidence to support a bogus claim that education has nothing to do with income or quality of life. BULLSHIT! Sure there a are some people without an education who have good jobs, but they are the EXCEPTION, not the rule. And nearly all the time, their job - usually entrepreneurial business owners- has absolutely NOTHING to do with their level of education.
I have been on both sides: without education in low paying jobs where I used my body (restauraunt worker, lower enlisted in the Army, a landscaper in Texas in the summer, a window washer); with education in high paying, jobs where I used my MIND (a business manager and a software developer). The latter is WAY better, believe me.
I dropped out, joined the army, got a little older and decided I wanted a piece of the pie. I didn't want some moron with a degree telling me what to do. I wanted a decent house. But without a degree it didn't matter one bit. The people with more education were calling the shots. Make now mistake aobout it, the people with the degrees call the shots. Until I got my degree I could not get any traction. As soon as I got my degree everything changed. I did it the hard way. Believe me, it is MUCH, MUCH harder to go back and fix things than it is to just do it right the first time.

I could go on for pages about how I have seen where education DOES make a difference. I have worked and do work with well educated people (most from outside the U.S., by the way) and it DOES make a difference. They not only know more because of what they have learned, they are able to learn new things much quicker, they are more productive, they are better able to communicate their ideas, on and on and on.

But I don't think any of this matters to you. I don't think your issue has anythging to do with education, I think it has to do with motivation. If you are not motivated to do one of the easiest, most rewarding things now, I doubt you will be motivated to do much else later. Maybe Kyle is right, smoke less bud!

Good luck!
mushkis Reviewed by mushkis on . Advice? Well... This school year is almost over (I am a junior) and I am doing horribly. I think that I am failing like 3 or 4 classes- Im not dumb or anything, I just have a very hard time paying attention and my mind just wanders (even when I go to class with the mind-set that I am going to focus and do my work). I do wonderfully on tests but I just dont do classwork or homework. I recently was put on an attendance contract since I skipped like 32 days, which means I have to go the rest of the year. Rating: 5