Homeschooled tropers, Unsocialize!

In high school, to be honest, this was for the most part my experience too — especially since I had the good luck to meet professors who were all too happy to let me do my thing, as long as my results stayed up. Middle school, on the other hand... *shudder*

The nice thing about college (and, even more so, about postgraduate education) is that you can make it into whatever you want. If you want to coast through, picking easy courses and doing just about what's needed for getting a good average, you can do that — it's not particularly difficult, I assure you. But if you want challenges, you'll get challenges — and professors, for the most part, are happy to reward interest with additional projects (which, by the way, will look pretty well in your CV later). But if the "rude shock" that you are expecting is something along the lines of "aargh I have to study hard or I will get flunked", you will not get it. At least in my experience, the people who drop out of college don't do so for lack of intelligence, nor for lack of study abilities or organization, but for lack of motivation — they wander more or less aimlessly for a while without much of an idea of what they are trying to do, then they realize that they are wasting time and money and they get out.

Nay, unless it's the only possibility available. Online universities still tend to be less well-regarded than good not-online ones, and that matters; and furthermore, having more possibilities for interacting with students and professors on a one-to-one basis will allow you to better gauge how you are doing and to get some hints if you get stuck somewhere.

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

This entirely depends on which subject you're taking. I have always been a terminally lazy student, and this only got worse at university as the hours per week were very few. As far as organisation and meeting deadlines I lapsed even further - everything was done at the eleventh hour, and somehow I managed to scrape a 2:1.

But that's arts students for you.

With cannon shot and gun blast smash the alien. With laser beam and searing plasma scatter the alien to the stars.

I met another homeschooled student in my class today. I could tell she was homeschooled because of the Straw Fundamentalist stuff she had to say when a debate developed in class.

I like her already.

edited 20th Oct '11 10:25:11 AM by EdwardsGrizzly

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Proper universities also offer some courses by correspondence. But, with reference to your reasoning against it in general, why is "interacting with students and professors on a one-to-one basis" important in university but not earlier? I mean, in high-school I often discussed concepts taught in lessons (primarily physics and maths stuff, and some Japanese - obviously how much of this you can do depends on the topic) with my friends and teachers, further than the curriculum covered them, and certainly benefited from it by gaining a deeper understanding.

I have motivation, natural organisation that only works for me, abysmal study skills, and I would hope that I have some intelligence, so I should be in decent shape, from what you've said.

If I said Law / Mathematical and Computer Sciences, what would you say after "Why?"? Please note that the study habits you mentioned have been mine since I was in Year 9.

Hi, guys! Homeschooled for all my life, but I go to co-op on Mondays.

Sup.

Where were you homeschooled?

Go play Kentucky Route Zero. Now.

Cincinnati.

Hi, I've been homeschooled for around 2 years, before that, I was unschooled, before that, I was homeschooled.

I did not go to highschool. Period. -_- Computer program, failed many a quiz just to do it over again with the right answers in a wordpad file; parents' idea. Mind you, by all accounts the only highschool(s) nearby sucked, and I'd have been heading for the bus at 6 AM. Also, I might not have found this site if I hadn't gotten so well acquainted with the computer, so there's that. I like to think Cracked helps fill in the holes in my education. Hell, I got into college, so it can't have been a total waste.

Ponders too much; thinks too little. Currently goes by Knowlessman.

Homeschooled from birth to college here.

Hail, fellow homeschoolees!

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."

Oooh!

I've been homeschooled since... a long time ago.

Really long time ago.

GO AHEAD .... MR. JOEHSTUR .......

I was homeschooled for all of my elementary school.

So I guess I fit in here.

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else

You too, BM - er, I mean Bacon? Weird. But cool!

"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."

It was OK.

I was (still am kind of) socially awkward, but I was homeschooled because of it, not the other way around.

what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone else

I was homeschooled when I was little, from age four until eleven. I tried going into elementary school, but had to drop out because of health issues.

I'm socially awkward too, so I understand. I stay quiet in large groups I don't really know.

edited 17th Dec '13 8:14:02 AM by LDSTroper1

"Faith— I don't believe, I KNOW." -Carl Jung

Homeschooled since the first grade here. And this thread needs some TLC...