I guess you can say I was a drop out. I left high school my junior year and got my GED so I could study abroad. Unfortunately most colleges won't really accept a GED so when I got back to the States I was fucked. After a year in tech school all was right again and I was deemed "worthy" of acceptance into a major university where I eventually graduated.

Don't be afraid of the road less traveled. College is "93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple." And in reality, a very short solution to a longer problem. Most of my high-school mates just graduated the traditional college track and are currently unemployed. I feel sorry for them.

Those of us capable of surviving without the silver spoon of "tradition" will inherit the Earth.