Re:Why it's expensive to be poor
by nostrademons on Thursday May 21, 2009 @02:15AM
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I know a bunch of people that dropped out of high school (usually later, at 16 or 17, since you can't at 14 in MA) and several of them have done quite well for themselves. As in gotten into Smith, MIT, or Wellesley. Many of the better colleges don't care about that high school diploma if you can demonstrate that you can do college-level work.
My list of "things that will really wreck your life" includes:
1) Getting killed.
2) Getting addicted.
3) Getting pregnant.
4) Getting convicted.
In roughly that order of precedence. Also, many of my friends that actually did have babies as teenagers wouldn't actually say it "wrecked their life" - rather, it just meant that their expectations for what their life would hold became dramatically different than what they initially expected.
My list of "things that will really wreck your life" includes:
1) Getting killed.
2) Getting addicted.
3) Getting pregnant.
4) Getting convicted.
In roughly that order of precedence. Also, many of my friends that actually did have babies as teenagers wouldn't actually say it "wrecked their life" - rather, it just meant that their expectations for what their life would hold became dramatically different than what they initially expected.