Wilco Tango Foxtrot ?

/Didn't RTFA

I detect jeoulsy rearing it's head in this thread.

Blah blah NASCAR blah boring blah flamebait.

Im Justa Troll: The point of AP courses is to get college credit so it doesn't make much sense to include that as a high school course; or maybe it does. I don't think it does.

As for Jr. Colleges/Community Colleges, they span a wide range from "horrible" to "pretty good." I took some very challenging (and beneficial) courses at one community college and I've taken some terribly useless courses at other universities.

I am dissapointed. I typed it's instead of its' and noone has skewered me yet.

dokool Dang, what's going on in this pic?!

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Being an educated, car racing muscian is no way to go through life son.

Typical "prodigy"... can't decide what he really wants to do, loses focus and interest after a year or two. There's a reason why these guys slide into obscurity. I fail to see what the hullabaloo is about every time. They're regular peeps like everyone else.

I took some community college classes back in High School, and would have been able to take more if my guidance councilor didn't screw me over with permission. Most of the liberal arts classes aren't harder to take when your 16 than when your 18. Then take into consideration that you only have class once or twice a week rather than every day, and you're doing alright.

An associates degree is NOT graduating from college!
In many (certainly not all) cases, the A.A. is a terminal degree for people who are not college material.
/his accomplishments are no big deal.
/My grandfather got his PhD from Cornell at 22...now THAT's an accomplishment!

I was kind of excited about this article, until I saw that it was an Associate's Degree.

I think the APs I took in HS would have qualified me for an Associate's Degree.

ClemsonChili (and submitter):
"Did submitter graduate high school? Because, if he/she did, they'd probably know it's two words, not one."
/It's "did submitter graduate FROM high school?"
/It's FROM not WHAT

He's going to wind up living in the heating tunnels beneath a dorm on campus in about 5 years. He'll be accessing his new home via a closet located in one of the rooms.

Don't worry though, he'll get his revenge on the establishment that drove him there with the help of two other geniuses. One in the similar position that drove him to borderline insanity, and the other a zany character who dreams of standing in god-like robes atop an ancient pyramid with a 1,000 naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at him.

Well, well well. I just hope he took Physics at Perimeter like most Tech kids. Don't see what so special, kids come in with billion hours all the time, and it is Perimeter. He's probably no smarter than half of Tech anyway, just focused.

This is news? My 17 Y.O. daughter is graduating with her AA on May 12 and then graduating High School.
So whats the big deal?



/My 15 Y.O. son is in his second semmester at same college

Shrugging Atlas

You forgot to mention the popcorn.

This thread reminds me of international politics a great deal. Except instead of dick waving it's big sexy brain waving.

EmmaLou
My property professor's dad graduated from law school at 19...now THAT is an accomplishment.

Orange Guy
My grandfather got his PhD from Cornell at 22...now THAT's an accomplishment!

Yeah? Well MY Grandfather got his Doctorate while he was still in grade school. And he had to walk uphill, both ways, in six feet of snow (this was mid-September. I won't even mention January) with burlap sacks tied to his feet. He didn't have enough money for pens or paper so he took notes by carving his arm with a straight razor. To this day he still has scars from a particularly complex Calculus equation.

I've attended a community college and a university. The British History course that I took at the community college was by far the most difficult course I've ever taken. I think many of the best teachers are at the community college level because they're hungry to work their way up to a university.

In the world of academics, you usually don't work your way up from a community college to a university. It is very rare. Universities generally don't like hiring people who aren't either fresh out of graduate school or from another university.

You can, however, move up from a community college to a nice liberal arts school where the focus is on teaching.

There are many reasons why a person would teach at a community college, which kills the theory of "they are sooooo easy."

1) They can't get a job anywhere else.
2) They want a place where the focus is strictly on teaching and not on research.
3) They do not have a PhD
4) Geography, period.
5) Work load is significantly less compared to a university...pay is not hugely different.

There are other reasons, as well. But community colleges sometimes can be really easy, but other times they are for kids who don't want to move out of their home towns. I went to a community college for my first two years of school and don't regret it one bit. I paid $500 a semester for a great education.

The medical schools actually knew the college by name, and the MCAT scores from students at our school were generally higher than those of students from the university (sampling issues come into play, of course). I wasn't a medical student and went there to save money on rent and on tuition. But I found no difference in the university I graduated from and the community college--both had easy or hard classes. I made one of only two C's in college at the community college.

And the university I am at now (in a different role entirely) is a breeze compared to the university and community college I attended.

SecretAgentWoman: staplermofo: Why don't they just make it legal to drop out and get your GED? I bet there are plenty of kids who'd have no problem getting their GED right out of grammar school.


It is called "home schooling"

That's what I meant to say!

Done with school at 18? What a wimp!

/In the system until I'm at least 27. Woo!
//...But I'll have 4 degrees. Suck it, Kanye West.

TerminalEchoes: That's what I meant to say!

...and you are ?? a 13 Y.O. drop out?

/ STFU and get a life A0

...and you are ?? a 13 Y.O. drop out?

HA! HA! Yep I'm a 13 year old dropout living in a southern Mississippi bayou. My computer is actually an old Commodore 64 that I've beefed up with electrified banjo strings and a jar full of chiggers.

/isn't really in his 30s and going back to school for his PhD in archaeology. Nope, never.
//still calling bullshiat!

I have a cousin that's like this kid... was taking college classes when he was like 14. Graduated with a Master's degree in mechanical engineering or something like that... he's 23 now and employed with some big-wig company making a crapload more than I am... worst of all... he drives a Volvo. Figures...

-Wood

Good, no, great for him. Nice headline btw.

bubbaprog

Pardon me for saying what half this thread wanted to say but was too gutless to do.

Dear heavenly father, please forgive me of the most atrocious of sins. I have voiced my opinion on fark.com. I promise not to do it again. Amen.

No big deal. The shiatty state of Washington has been offering "Running Start" (not to be confused with head start) classes for years. I know hundreds of kids who earned an AA before their HS diploma- and I'm one of them.

Meh...

I'm surprised at all the negative posts about this kid. So he wants to be a NASCAR driver, so what? Graduating from community college may not be a big deal, but when I was his age I was mainly interested in engineering the perfect bong.

This doesn't work too well on a job resume.

Frankly, I think MY technique of taking 6 years to get my BS was probably lots more fun.

Shalom

Blah blah blah... darkie...

C'mon now. I'm not the most politically correct person on the planet but I think that you could choose a less derogatory term for referring to an african american.

Asshat.

His real achievement is that he's already got a sponsor (Gibson). I'd doubt anyone here has one outside of AA.

Additionally, most of you kids (and even parents with "wonder-kids") that think you're doing so well had better check which of your courses will transfer to an "accredited" university...typically the ones where about 1/10 freshman actually make it all the way through to graduation. Mine threw 27 hours away, and at least half of those were some really tough courses. That alone cost me an additional $10,000.

It's all a business (obviously), but universities want your money spent there, so they throw a bunch of your work away so you have to repeat it at your expense, and their gain.

Good luck anyway.

Shalom

God forbid you offend anybody here! (eye roll)

Progress
C'mon now. I'm not the most politically correct person on the planet but I think that you could choose a less derogatory term for referring to an african american.

Calling a black person "african american" is being politically correct. How about just an "american"? I've got a white friend who came here from South Africa. Shall we call him an african american too?

/darkie...heheh

That's good work, boys.

dnh0a9: That is until he fails his first course at GT.

You know what? I think they should make "strategies for college success" the hardest, most writing intensive class available, and make the tests hard as heck.. and make the class manditory.

That way, all the other classes are easy in comparison, as far as workload goes.

Bam. You've just found the best strategy for college success: Take it seriously.

Somebody post the "That's racist" kid!

well shiat.

Georgia. Associate's degree. NASCAR.

/ME shrugs

So, that's a "genius" by some peoples' standards? How sad.

Jlop985


/your wish, my command :)

No comment on his desire to become a mechanical engineer. For shame.

/mechanical engineering student

The hate is strong in this thread.

Kid's young, talented, good lucking and willing to push himself.

The people on here begrudging him that are really pathetic.

Just like everyone else here, I am WAAAY smarter than this guy. He only has an AA what a dumbass!

Both my kids are brain surgeons... one is 12 and the other 7.

/Cracks me up when people feel they have to "one up" a story.

no mention of a girlfriend.

i dunno what's more important and life.

if i'm going to die for a word, that word's "poontang".