Skorpius
Jul 8, 2005, 03:27 PM
If you do not know what a G.E.D. is, please go here (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&hs=h4I&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&oi=defmore&q=define:GED).
Background story:
I dropped out of highschool after Junior year (11th Grade). A lot of people are confused as to why I would do it, I would simply respond by telling them I was sick of the repeated cycle of crap I was put through every day. It wasn't the students, it wasn't the teachers, it wasn't my friends or family. I needed time to myself, to reflect on my life up to that point, and do it alone. All teenagers experience this in their own way, and I happen to want to do it isolated from the rest of my peers. My parents were reluctant, but they couldn't do anything but agree. I was 18 and could make my own decisions.
As time passed, and I gained access to the internet, I had doomed myself into a downward spiral of nothingness, sitting at the computer, endlessly wasting my time away. No job, no driver's license, no car. Nothing. I was a waste, and as this information slowly leaked out to peopel who knew me, many of them chose to put me down, to haunt me and hound me about it, using it as a weapon against my "egotistical persona". It didn't bother me as much as some might think, as time continued to pass.
A couple months ago, I moved in with my cousin. He was slowly losing his house and I was going to help him. Within a week, I got my state ID, and registered to take the G.E.D. test, and 2 weeks after registry, I took the 10 hour long, 5 part, G.E.D. test. It started at 8:00 in the morning, I had to get to the testing center at 7:45 to be counted. We were given 10 minunte breaks between tests, except for a midday lunch of 30 minutes. At 6pm, I walked out of the testing center and caught my ride home.
2 and a half weeks after that, which is today, I recieved my G.E.D. certificate and my testing scores.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Snapshots/PSOp/gedscore1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Snapshots/PSOp/gedscore2.jpg
Needless to say, I am very proud of myself, as is my cousin, mother, and girlfriend. They were the only ones that knew of what I was doing, and all have been curious to how I did, even though I was very confident with myself.
Today marks the first day of the rest of my life.
EDIT: I'll add information about the tests in a bit.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Skorpius on 2005-07-08 13:28 ]</font>
Background story:
I dropped out of highschool after Junior year (11th Grade). A lot of people are confused as to why I would do it, I would simply respond by telling them I was sick of the repeated cycle of crap I was put through every day. It wasn't the students, it wasn't the teachers, it wasn't my friends or family. I needed time to myself, to reflect on my life up to that point, and do it alone. All teenagers experience this in their own way, and I happen to want to do it isolated from the rest of my peers. My parents were reluctant, but they couldn't do anything but agree. I was 18 and could make my own decisions.
As time passed, and I gained access to the internet, I had doomed myself into a downward spiral of nothingness, sitting at the computer, endlessly wasting my time away. No job, no driver's license, no car. Nothing. I was a waste, and as this information slowly leaked out to peopel who knew me, many of them chose to put me down, to haunt me and hound me about it, using it as a weapon against my "egotistical persona". It didn't bother me as much as some might think, as time continued to pass.
A couple months ago, I moved in with my cousin. He was slowly losing his house and I was going to help him. Within a week, I got my state ID, and registered to take the G.E.D. test, and 2 weeks after registry, I took the 10 hour long, 5 part, G.E.D. test. It started at 8:00 in the morning, I had to get to the testing center at 7:45 to be counted. We were given 10 minunte breaks between tests, except for a midday lunch of 30 minutes. At 6pm, I walked out of the testing center and caught my ride home.
2 and a half weeks after that, which is today, I recieved my G.E.D. certificate and my testing scores.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Snapshots/PSOp/gedscore1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v31/Snapshots/PSOp/gedscore2.jpg
Needless to say, I am very proud of myself, as is my cousin, mother, and girlfriend. They were the only ones that knew of what I was doing, and all have been curious to how I did, even though I was very confident with myself.
Today marks the first day of the rest of my life.
EDIT: I'll add information about the tests in a bit.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Skorpius on 2005-07-08 13:28 ]</font>