… You know what, in case any actual high school students are reading this:
Dont play this game—it is a tourney in which almost all participants are loosers - Are you likely to score a perfect SAT? No? Then the system wants to enslave you with chains of debt in the future and chains of bullshit in the present.
So, what you should do is avoid it. The cost of getting a college education in the US under the current system outweigh utterly any conceivable earnings you could possibly get during your high-school years, and are in fact quite problematic on a life-time basis.
Pick up a european language, get a student visa, get a degree in Berlin, Oslo, or some other city where there is a high-end relevant program for your interests. This is much cheaper. Heck, if you know where you want to go, finish high-school in that country—to avoid relocation shock on top of starting college.
Of course this does require you to meet the entry requirements for the course of study you desire, but it isn’t like the US Ivy’s are lenient on that front, and at least this way you wont be robbed blind.
If you are unwilling to move quite that far away from home to cheapskate your way through university, I suggest selling yourself to the armed forces instead of the banks. That contract at least has an expiry date.
There are branches and specialties that value nerds; I wouldn’t expect most of the people here to end up in infantry if they went that route. LW’s cultural anti-authoritarianism might be a bigger problem—and, of course, joining a service that often involves being stationed halfway around the world isn’t that good an idea if your goal is to avoid moving halfway around the world.
Also, Fort Huachuca is one of the more miserable places I’m familiar with.
… You know what, in case any actual high school students are reading this:
Dont play this game—it is a tourney in which almost all participants are loosers - Are you likely to score a perfect SAT? No? Then the system wants to enslave you with chains of debt in the future and chains of bullshit in the present.
So, what you should do is avoid it. The cost of getting a college education in the US under the current system outweigh utterly any conceivable earnings you could possibly get during your high-school years, and are in fact quite problematic on a life-time basis.
Pick up a european language, get a student visa, get a degree in Berlin, Oslo, or some other city where there is a high-end relevant program for your interests. This is much cheaper. Heck, if you know where you want to go, finish high-school in that country—to avoid relocation shock on top of starting college.
Of course this does require you to meet the entry requirements for the course of study you desire, but it isn’t like the US Ivy’s are lenient on that front, and at least this way you wont be robbed blind.
If you are unwilling to move quite that far away from home to cheapskate your way through university, I suggest selling yourself to the armed forces instead of the banks. That contract at least has an expiry date.
For the nerds who tend to hang around LW, I feel that this is a very VERY bad idea.
There are branches and specialties that value nerds; I wouldn’t expect most of the people here to end up in infantry if they went that route. LW’s cultural anti-authoritarianism might be a bigger problem—and, of course, joining a service that often involves being stationed halfway around the world isn’t that good an idea if your goal is to avoid moving halfway around the world.
Also, Fort Huachuca is one of the more miserable places I’m familiar with.