[quote=@Vilageidiotx] Ok, fun fact about me: Through a series of peculiar circumstances, I really didn't get any schooling between 5th grade and college. We moved to the boonies, my parents decided to homeschool, and my mother had something of a mental breakdown, so I was basically self educated during that time. And basically that just meant that I played video games, and went to the library from time to time. At sixteen, I got a GED and went to Community College. And honestly, aside from having to take a remedial math course my first semester, it wasn't difficult to transition at all. That was the thing that blew my mind: I just stumbled forward, thinking that I might have trouble but just sort of hoping that I wouldn't, but I picked right up as if I had been in school all along. I ended up transferring to a University and graduated with a 3.8 GPA. The problem I did have was that I picked a stupid major. My family didn't have any Bachelor's degree graduates until myself, my father was convinced that any technical degree involving computers would be useless because of a bubble he perceived to be happening in that market, and I made the mistake of trusting college supervisors. So yeh, I was in a position to fuck that choice up, and I did. So anyway, all of that is to say that, at least in my case, you have an incomplete elementary school education competing with a high school education and matching it. What that says about the value of our High Schools is up for debate. [/quote] Well it's less that they didn't try but in the grand scheme of things they assume I could get things straightened out, which maybe I do but I feel that at least lately I might not have refined my choice enough into my career of choice. This comes up now that I have to soon redeclare my major since my old one died without any real warning so it's not time to make an actual life-determining choice again. And that to help me I'll be getting back with people who like in Highschool would offer no anchoring words of wisdom but will tell me to do whatever, but will do so to just get me to throw another couple grand at them as opposed to being afraid if they burst my bubble they'll get angry parents scolding them for murdering someone's perfect child's self esteem. But I think I've also had that chance of failure in life at the back of my mind with contigency plans in place if what I picked went FUBAR.