Curse you, high school transcript!

I recently dropped out of college. Now, I know what many of you might be thinking: "wow, that was dumb!" My response to that judgement is, "well, no... what was dumb was not taking high school seriously." You see, I graduated in the top 85 percent of my class (or bottom 15 percent if you want to be an ass-hole about it). Though I did well on my SATs, the sad fact is that I burned my bridges to decent higher learning when I was 18. So today, here I am, 22 years old, with a little bit more than a Freshman year under my belt. My choices in colleges are limited to Austin Community College (which will unfortunatly probably be the last educational institution I will ever attend), or a private college for slackers with money (which, I suppose at this point, no longer seems worth the price to me). Neither of those choices interests me.

Its not talked about very often, but I think its quite a serious issue. Our academic institutions arrogantly assume that everyone learns the same way. And, I feel, had I been given a chance, I could have thrived at college. However, again, I never got an opprotunity to attend a college where teachers and students were actually interested in anything more than getting and giving the grades, and getting out of class on time. Frankly, its disgusting to me how uninterested some people seem to be in our world, and ability to percieve it. Rants aside, at least I can remind myself that Karl Rove never finished his degree. Besides, there appears to be only one place that is offering courses in the subjects that interest me. And, you might see the problem with that. Bygones...