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(NAME) Devin Leshin (EMAIL) dmleshin@erols.com (WEB) none (COLLEGE) Miami Ohio then NC State (CLASSOF) 1996 (story) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bad girlfriend, bad friends and a lot of alcohol...got in trouble at school, stopped going to class, etc. Left school. Started waiting tables. I am now a department head for a MAJOR hospitality company making decent money with a huge future in this field if I choose to stay. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Pick_Something) I will finish somewhere else (referred-by) another's web page link (NAME) dj (EMAIL) checkermv2@hotmail.com (WEB) none (listme?) Yes (COLLEGE) sacramento state u (CLASSOF) 1988 (story) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I left college while carrying 19 units, a graduating senior, and caring (primary) for our 6 month old daughter. I was atttempting to sell my ex-wife's old house, tending to our rental (inside and out), and tending to my parents house while they traveled the country. I wasn't getting laid enough. There was no money for pot, and that broke my back! Seriously, too much is simply too much, so I scaled back my lifestyle and pursuits to tend to only one house, the wife and children, and so I wouldn't have a nervous breakdown (which came a little later). I remember sitting in Social Psychology one morning, after leaving my daughter in the Child Care Center crying, and my heart was broken. I couldn't continue to bear the strain of tending to way too much, and my ex was an utter (udder) failure in gaining insight into what I was explaining was too much for me to handle. We fought on a level I had only heard about from others after they had divorced.... But I knew my days in classrooms was coming to an end. I didn't care. I wanted my wife to tend to the house more, to me more, and stop the fighting . I didn't want my child (we had her daughter from a previous marraige living with us also) to be brought up by totally nerotic people, and so the decision was made that I would drop out. That's when I died and became a bureaucrat. Does that explain the level of service you get when you use any governmental service? However, after splitting up with the ex last year and going back to work for the State, I have found that shit is still shit it still stinks but now I have the experience to know how to neurtralize the stench, not blame the system or reinvent the wheel and cause more pain in the process. I have also found out how to have some fun while doing it, and to share how to enjoy life while wading through it knee deep. The people I supervise understand that about me, and we share a very good work environment because of it. In fact, I would go so far as to say that because of my sacrifices, I am a better person and treat all staff more than fair. And they and I share a warm, fun and enriching work environment that I have only begun to develop. I look forward to "credentialing" myself in a number of areas to further myself professionally, but only for that purpose. Because, quite frankly, being on the "lifetime plan" instead of the "four year plan" may turn out to be far more enriching than doing it the "right" way. I do have plans to finish off and go on to graduate school. However, I will always be a drop-out. As Richard Bach says in his book Illusions, there is no problem big enough that you can't run away from! (He may not have thought of nuclear holocaust, tho...) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Pick_Something) I will finish somewhere else (referred-by) yahoo humor section (NAME) Jesse (EMAIL) jessechamberlin@hotmail.com (COLLEGE) Oklahoma State University (CLASSOF) 99 (story) Recieved a full academic scholarship to OSU, joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and eventually flunked out. I joined the Marine Corps last year and have been working on computers since. Still waiting for the success story to complete. (Pick_Something) Alcohol got in the way (referred-by) Random search (NAME) Eric Dillow (EMAIL) eric_dillow@hotmail.com (COLLEGE) Texas A&M University (CLASSOF) 2000 (story) Beer, Beta Theta Pi, living in the athletic dorm...I would like to thank all of these for influencing me to get a 1.2 and later persuading me to leave college! Thank you. (Pick_Something) I was lazy (“how did you find us?”) jerking off at my 8 dollar an hour job (NAME) V. Williams (EMAIL) ayla99@excite.com (listme?) Yes (COLLEGE) New Scool for Social Research (CLASSOF) 96 (story) A lower class white girl at a school that cared little about that cos i wasnt a minority. I met a lot of interesting people, my ideologies were challenged, and my "to read someday" list grew. Do I reget it? No. I just wish there was a way that the student loan people would leave me alone. (Pick_Something) I wanted to devote myself fulltime to the Web (referred-by) Surfing (NAME) Josh Wellman (EMAIL) N/A (WEB) N/A (listme?) Yes (COLLEGE) University of Anchorage AK. (CLASSOF) 01 (story) I dropped out of school and work at Eddie Bauer. A job I hate almost as much as college. (Pick_Something) Alcohol got in the way (referred-by) searched for college drinking (NAME) Melanie (EMAIL) Chicadawn (COLLEGE) East Tennessee State University (CLASSOF) 2001 (story) Well, boys and girls, I'm sure my story isn't unlike many others that you've heard. I had a full academic scholarship--books and everything--until I just woke up and realized that I was burned out! I was an English major, but pre-med at the same time. Yeah, it was, uh, interesting. But, you gotta do what you gotta do...right? (Pick_Something) Let's go somewhere fun! (referred-by) Yahoo! (NAME) Suellen Hanson (EMAIL) suellenha@aol.com (COLLEGE) Austin College (CLASSOF) 1990 (story) Thank god! a place where i can be a proud drop-out! i was pre-law and a combination of disillusionment and partying caused me to leave. actually i am a twice drop-out! i went to univ. of texas, arl. as a theatre major later on and got head-hunted out of school. oops! i am now a faux finish painter (murals, etc.) and perfectly happy. but i still get that dead look in people's eyes when the subject comes up. i think alot of it has to do w/ the socio-economic class that i belong to... everyone has a degree (or 2 ... or 3). i think this site is great... keep up the good work. (Pick_Something) No one is to blame (referred-by) just surfing (NAME) Vic DeVetern (EMAIL) killer@usa.com (COLLEGE) boston university (CLASSOF) 70 (story) shit.... (Pick_Something) School was my enemy (referred-by) yakoo (NAME) jamie talbott` (EMAIL) bluntkeeper@usa.net (COLLEGE) Temple U and Radford U (CLASSOF) 2000 (story) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- from the day i got to school i noticed it was nothing but one big dating scene. you go to a party and you got sixteen frat boys fighting over some little freshman, who, besides the fact they've had ten to fifteen mugs of alcohol, is otherwise... nasty. at radford, it is a known fact, that anything anyone ever does is drink and f--k. i mean, i don't wanna be with some girl who has been with the entire kuppa moo frat. also, i ran into a little disciplinary action in my first year in college. my RA was cool as hell at first. he bought us beer on his twenty-first birthday. he let us do what we wanted to an extent, we didn't burn the dorm down or anything, he just didn't care if we were a little loud or smoked in the lounge. but when he started getting crap for us being "unruly" he wrote us up for anything. i got kicked out of my dorm for nothing more than playing my music "too loud". when i complained of his tyrany, i was written up again. the straw that broke the camel's back however, was for "sports in the hall". in laymen's terms, i was walking down the hall, bouncing a jacks ball. so i was transferred to a dorm across campus. my new RA was hot. she and i actually dated for a while. but that kind of fizzled out. on the final weekend i decided i'd had enough. i had just walked in my room, i had been home for the weekend. as i'm putting my things away, my RA, meredith, comes ! to the door and says "i'm writing you guys up for a noise violation" i had just walked into my room, my roomate was the one with the music loud. it didn't matter though. I'd had it. so i gave up college to pursue a higher education. i graduated kindergarten, damn it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Pick_Something) I blame them (addthis) did einstein drop out of college? (referred-by) seardh engine for "employment" (NAME) Meredith (EMAIL) mnestor@yahoo.com (listme?) Yes (COLLEGE) New Mexico State Univ. (CLASSOF) 99 (story) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Studying irrelevant information that has no bearing on the rest of my life really got in the way of consuming any and everything that would get me either drunk or high. hmmmm. i had amazing grades in my major(criminal justice) but had to take shit like accounting and history of the early brazilian post-communist government. that sucked. so here i am, studiying to be a paralegal on my own time, and getting a 98 average and not taking one class that sucks. plus i have a full time job in a law firm in one of the greatest cities in the us and make mad loot. ah-men. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Pick_Something) Alcohol got in the way (referred-by) yahoo.com (NAME) Sarah Williams (EMAIL) sjplkw@home.com (COLLEGE) Univ of Colorado (CLASSOF) 82 (story) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dont have time but will later. Going on an interview. In a nutshell, hasn't stopped anything. I'm a highly successful executive with a luxury good firm in New York. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Pick_Something) I will never finish (referred-by) Infoseek (NAME) NIJ (EMAIL) njohnson@sjha.org (Pick_Something) I regret it (NAME) Steve Murgaski (EMAIL) murgaski@oil.ca (COLLEGE) Queen's Univ. On. Ca (CLASSOF) 2000 (story) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was supposed to be so many things that it wasn't. I must have been some kind of idealist: my image of university was a place where people really talked, not just about trivialities, but about original ideas. I was looking for something Socratic I thought people would question things with me talk about life, the universe, and everything... I don't know. Deciding not to go back, after a year of filling in assignment sheets, composing formulaic essays, and watching everyone get drunk ... it felt more like a divorce than like dropping out. The marks never felt like real feedback, and I couldn't find anything else. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Pick_Something) I wish things had worked out (referred-by) Yahoo (NAME) meg (EMAIL) x.process@mailexcite.com (COLLEGE) u. of dayton and then cleveland state university... (CLASSOF) 2000 (story) today was officially my last day of college. with 3 semesters under my belt, i have no idea what comes next. so much for being high school valedictorian, huh? (Pick_Something) I wish I knew (referred-by) yahoo... (NAME) Melissa McKelvey (EMAIL) mckelvey@visi.net (COLLEGE) The College of William & Mary (CLASSOF) 98 (Pick_Something) I was kicked out (referred-by) a friend's suggestion (NAME) Molly Wilson (EMAIL) molly_wilson@yahoo.com (WEB) http://www.angelfire.com/tx/chumblespuzz/index.html (listme?) Yes (COLLEGE) Georgia State University (CLASSOF) 2000 (story) I dropped out of college because I got tired of feeding my money to big business, and they weren't teaching me anything I didn't already know. So I'm 20 years old, working for Network Associates, and making 70K a year. Who needs college? (Pick_Something) I will finish somewhere else (referred-by) Just surfed on in!! (NAME) Kim Jenne (EMAIL) d833unc@semovm.semo.edu (story) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- FYI- Rush Limbaugh dropped out of Southeast Missouri State, NOT Southeastern. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Pick_Something) I regret it (COLLEGE) University of Texas @ Austin (CLASSOF) 91-93? (story) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I dropped out of college twice. Each time because I became interested in starting my own business. I felt like the "core" required classes were just wasting my time. I experimented with many different businesses, and overall, since graduating high school in 1987 I've had over 30 different jobs! I finally found what I was looking for. I had always loved acting, and I really enjoyed helping people, so I found myself involved in the training industry. It's really ironic now, because what I do is teach educational seminars (primarily to college students) on how to improve their study skills, reading habits, etc. I have also taught these seminars for several large corporations. I've had students from 6th graders all the way up to PhDs take my class! I make about $30,000 per year, and very soon I expect that to double because I will be producing other seminars and home study courses. For my students who are concerned about the "credibility" issue of me not having a degree, I just tell them that I'm not finished yet. I love what I do, I make good money, I'm my own boss, and I only work 7-8 months out of the year. As for college, I may or may not go back. If I did go back, it would be primarily because I think colleges are a good place to find a spouse! As for the degree, I'd only go for it if it was something I was interested in. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Pick_Something) I wanted to work (addthis) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Robbins - multi millionaire seminar leader Thomas Edison Henry Ford Abe Lincoln (dropped out of Law School) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (referred-by) yahoo search (NAME) Randy Wolf (EMAIL) rwolf714@concentric.com (listme?) Yes (COLLEGE) Maimi of OH, OSU,CSCC,Devry (CLASSOF) 93-6 (story) I went to a private school in high school and would have been a second generation college grad. My first semester at Maimi, I got a 1.7 GPA, 2nd was a .07. the main reason I ever went to college was to please my father and learn a little about computers and foreign languages. My first clue in my first programming class was when my teacher, (the Dean) started telling us about the reel-to-reel back-up drives we would be using in the future of business. I asked him about CD technology, and Steven Jobs new NexT multi-media systems. I told him I thought the world would be moving towards icon-driven technology, not mainframes for business. This man told me I was crazy, that CD's and multimedia were "fads". If I knew it better, I should teach. Having been a Sysadmin on a xenix OS running Progress (4GL database language)in high school, I did teach the class for about 10 minutes, when he noticed they were taking notes. He threw me out and swore I would never graduate ! from "his" school. He was right. However, after ten years and four start-ups, my current business is slowly becoming profitable. I manufacture and sell thermal and acoustic insulation for non-automotive markets. I bought the division from my father with my proceeds from my other start-up attempts(He and I still aren't real close, the man never gave me a dime, but I appreciate his making me work for what I get) as a buy-resale company and took it manufacturing(better money than sales, also I control product production.) about 18 months ago. I will never gradute college, I can't apply all the knowledge they want me to learn, so for me it's pointless. I don't play well with others, can't learn from pompous jerks or work for them. As far as I know, no-one ever made it their way by conforming. The myth is you need college to succeed in America today. That is bullshit. All you ever need is determination and a desire to work for your dreams. I wanted to be a millionare by ! the time I was 30 in high school. So what if it takes me five extra years to do it my way, I'm having alot more fun. (Pick_Something) I did not fit the school's mold (addthis) Dave Thomas(never got to college, owns Wendys. I've met the man, he is incredible. Story is, he called a meeting to discuss taking Wendy's to the next level. All these high-powered types are smugly telling him they went to Yale or Harvard and so on and treated him pretty shabby. He gets up and says, "School of Hard Knocks, you're all fired, get out." Could be a myth tho...) (referred-by) Browsing the web (NAME) Roy G. Biv (EMAIL) roygbiv@mail.wm.edu (WEB) http://www.resnet.wm.edu/~rgbivx (listme?) Yes (COLLEGE) College of William and Mary (CLASSOF) 01 (story) I didn't drop out. I think you're all a bunch of losers! (Pick_Something) School was my friend (referred-by) From a loser's web page! (NAME) Brian Skiles (EMAIL) bskiles@mcscon.com (listme?) Yes (COLLEGE) Purdue (CLASSOF) 96 (story) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- My freshman year, everything was great. I studied hard, got good grades, and I thought I'd even graduate early. That all changed my sophomore year. I went to class less than 20 times the entire year (that's bad!) and drank my weight in beer at least twice a week. I dropped out the year after that and took a dead-end job. The dead-end job persuaded me to go back. I went back and went to about half of my classes. (I still partied more than I studied, but at least I learned some computer programming.) After my first semester of being back in school, I got an actual professional job as a computer programmer. (Surprising myself as well as everyone else I know!) I dropped out for the second time and haven't looked back. Some of my friends and associates talk about the degree thing, but they're still in school, and I'm making more money than them, so I'll let them talk all they want. (Plus I was lazy in school and that didn't help!) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Pick_Something) I was lazy (referred-by) Stumbled on to website
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