Your college experience

[Amaterasu]

Has anyone here attended college? Did you still work? Did you have to take out school loans? Tell me your experience! I’m looking to go back to college for Dental Hygienist. Just want to make sure it’s worth it to go full time.

 

[Pin]

I studied, worked, drank beer, and made friends.

 

[Ren]

I studied, worked, drank beer, and made friends.

Pretty much the same except I didn't have to work. Maybe I'm one of the lucky few.

I did work was a postgrad but it was within the department and it was kind of expected.

 

[lucyinthedarkness]

I love studying! It makes me feel useful .
In the Czech republic we've got free public school which are more prestigious than privates one. Mostly we don't need school loans.

 

[Pin]

I love studying! It makes me feel useful .
In the Czech republic we've got free public school which are more prestigious than privates one. Mostly we don't need school loans.

 

[Ren]

This is hurting my delicate eyes Pinny

PS. We also have a school system where many of the more prestigious schools are public

 

[StarryEyedDreamer]

Planning on graduating this year with my associate's degree in computer science from a technical college. It has been several years in getting my required classes finished. But I only have a few classes to complete in 2026.

 

[just me]

Quit in the twelfth grade halfway through. Took my GED. Worked for my family til I was referred to the optical business. Learned it and opened my own wholesale lab, incorporated. Ended up many years later helping my aging parents. Bought their business and incorporated it. Did a voluntary dissolution after my competition would not buy my business or inventory after my parents both died. Living off my small SS checks and what I sold the property for to downsize. Lost my graduation gift: a small cabin in a neighborhood at the river, because I would not graduate.

Told my teacher halfway I didn't turn in what I had done on my paper due the end of the year. Asked me in front of the classroom why I thought I was so much better than everyone else, which I denied feeling that way. Told her I could knock out a term paper in a few days. She said she was failing me for the year. I quit and had my GED before my friends had their diplomas.

Looking back, I had a B average in her class. Principal said she could do anything she wanted, as she was my teacher. They would not let me change teachers. Truth is, I did not know we had to turn something in halfway through the year. Cost me my cabin. I felt sorry for the four guys I was helping.