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[dclamp]

Now both of them are only children, and they had three kids(myself and my two brothers).

See, both of my parents were the first in their families to attend(and complete) college.

I am in a similar boat. Except my parents have not completed college. I would be the first (and probably only) child of my grand parents to complete a college degree. But similarly to you, I dont do so well with school. I hate school actually. I feel like its a waste of time and the only reason I am doing it is to have a piece of paper that says I sat through way too many hours of boring lectures and am semi-more qualified than I was 4 years ago.

[homer13j]

I hate school actually. I feel like its a waste of time and the only reason I am doing it is to have a piece of paper that says I sat through way too many hours of boring lectures and am semi-more qualified than I was 4 years ago.

I had the exact same attitude until the age of 27 or so when I got tired of watching my photography talent make my boss rich while he paid me squat. After busting my butt at several jobs in the real world since high school I found college work to be an absolute breeze with the added bonus of meeting more girls 18-22 in the first semester there than I met in the previous few years. That in itself was worth it.

It took too long, it was incredibly dull and dreary at times, left me $20,000 in debt (late-90s), and I was forced to study a bunch of things I couldn't give two squirts of pee about. But today I make almost 5 times the money I made before college, and along the way squeezed in hundreds of hours of musical training I would have never received otherwise that led to a somewhat lucrative (if intermittently so) side career as a musician.

Safe to say I've never regretted my decision. Except for that summer with all the penicillin shots.