Your Education.What was/is it like?

most kids i knew who had adderall prescriptions were well aware that they didn't have learning disabilities; they just knew how to lie and get legal speed...

 

it was great till I was expelled for blowing off a string of M-80's during lunch time..

 

i've heard this one. but then i also think people give themselves too much credit. its easier to convince yourself that you're outsmarting the system to get a drug you desire for its desired effects than to admit you are slow.

the truth is that if they didn't think it gave them an edge on the rest of us, then they wouldn't resort to "lying" to get it.

edit:and yes, i've seen really smart students taking it just to be able to keep up with an intense course load. i'm laughing at them. lol, i smoked pot all through high school and i still got the same grades as them. its all about self-discipline.

 

public education... go ahead, fill in the blanks.

 

I went to public school for the most part and then went to one of the better state universities in california and got a Bachelor's in Liberal Arts with a Special Studies in psychology.
I'm so over school.

 

meaning I never want to go and do more unless it's for art or design and at a community college as an audit.

 

I moved around allot because my dad works in mining, so I'd get thrown into allot of different public schools.

The first school I went through K - Year 3, and I was bullied pretty bad, so I had a hard time making friends for a long time.

The second school after that was in Tasmania, I completed year 4 there. I lived in the same yard as a church, right across the road. I can remember being in the science/biology room once when the teachers were showing us dissected cows tongue and eye balls. I think they had a brain in there too. After school, and on weekends I loved going beach bombing on the back of my uncles ute, and walking in the rainforrests, or trying to look for ghosts around the church (spooky stuff). Of course it was a beautiful place and I'd love to live there again within the next year or so.

Year 5 was in a tiny little town in the wheat belt. There were roughly 50 people in the whole town, ten of which attended the local school. There were two classrooms, a tiny library, an undercover area for assemby's and an oval. One classroom had kindergardener's, year one's, and year 2's, and the other classroom had years 3 up to year 9 in the other classroom.

The town was about a two or three hour drive from any other town. It was then that I started coming out of my shell a little bit. I can remember playing with hackey sacks and boomerangs on the oval with some of the guys in my classroom. Back then, I thought that cargo pants and shirts were the best thing ever, so I'd live in cargo gear, climbing trees and jumping down and trying to scare people as they walked by.

Every two hours or so throughout the day, everyday, a ute would drive past through the streets with a siron wailing on the roof. This was to warn the town that they were going to let off some explosions down in the mine. About five minutes after the siron stopped, you'd hear this loud 'bang' and the whole house would shudder.

I think I learnt more about the outback in the wheat belt, then I did school stuff. I was always trying to catch bobtail lizards and bring them home to help pick ticks out of their scales. I'd go for walks with my dog and 'hunt' for dingo's (of course I never found any). I'd catch tadpoles down in the river holes with some friends and keep them as pets in the classroom, and I'd love to lay on the school oval and watch cockatoo's and corella's flying around, squawking up in the trees. I remember we used to play a game with these ants, with some friends. You'd stand near the ant hill and let them crawl all over your feet, bite you etc, and the last person to run away was the bravest. We called them "piss ants", because when you squish them, they let off this weird smell that makes a pretty good insect repellant too.

After that, I moved to where I am now, which is a rural place, but not as rural as my last town. I spent years 6 up to year 12 here, and I live roughly 30 minutes to an hour from any other town. It's a beautiful spot, but I feel a little more 'cityfied' then I was back in the wheat belt. I graduated in 2007. Once I finish college this year, I want to travel back to Tasmania for a while. I'm in college at the moment, because at the school I graduated from, they finished teaching math in year 11, and I only got a C that year. So I'm aiming for a B.

That's pretty much it. School was just a profoundly boring place compared to everything else.

 

I dropped out of high school and am considering my options.