Basic skills learned in school help one function effectively in life. After elementary school, though, middle school makes him or her follow classes that will not help anything. After that, high school furthers with math and science only scientists will use, English only English teachers will use, physical education nobody will use, and history that could be used were it not butchered with lies. College worsens for the high amount of work and cost to go learn essentially nothing.

I suppose you can already tell where I stand on the whole school issue. I find it worthless. My parents hate me for the fact that I dropped out of college. I wasn’t going to, but when I had no home anymore I had to. I did not learn anything useful to what I want to do with my life, which is to write. I also couldn’t take a creative writing course, since I did not meet the requirements. I guess publishing work doesn’t count.

I had a free ride. My grades were high enough to get a free scholarship to a community college, then, if I kept my grades up, I could go to any state college for free. According to my parents, I’m not going to get anywhere in life without a college degree. I’ll prove you wrong.

My first semester in college was filled with a lot of work both for school and my job at Genuardi’s. I was going to school five days a week and working 48 hours most of the time six or seven days a week. I didn’t mind. I did all of my work at Genuardi’s, and I wrote in the middle of my classes. I got a 4.0 for my first semester. Then, I signed up for the second semester and had to leave.

I felt no satisfaction going to school, and leaving was the best thing I ever did.