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Title says it all, I have graduated with no honour, no accomplishment, no good grades. But a lot of quotes, many think I'm a funny man.

I also scored a mention in our year advisor's speech, for my knowledge of Klingon.

Now for the real world...

*fires off 21-Railgun Salute*

Congratulations, Gandalf the White!

Gandalf wrote:Title says it all, I have graduated with no honour, no accomplishment, no good grades. But a lot of quotes, many think I'm a funny man.

I also scored a mention in our year advisor's speech, for my knowledge of Klingon.

Now for the real world...

Congratulations, good sir! Now it's off to college! (If that's your choice, of course.) I remember when I graduated high school, it seems like just a few weeks ago...no wait, it was four months ago...

Gandalf wrote:I have graduated with no honour, no accomplishment, no good grades.

Yep. You're screwed.

But a lot of quotes, many think I'm a funny man.

Wow. Sca-roowed.


Congrats.

Xenophobe3691 wrote:

Gandalf wrote:Title says it all, I have graduated with no honour, no accomplishment, no good grades. But a lot of quotes, many think I'm a funny man.

I also scored a mention in our year advisor's speech, for my knowledge of Klingon.

Now for the real world...

Congratulations, good sir! Now it's off to college! (If that's your choice, of course.) I remember when I graduated high school, it seems like just a few weeks ago...no wait, it was four months ago...

I don't plan to go to University for a year or so at least.

Gandalf wrote: I don't plan to go to University for a year or so at least.

What do you plan on doing in the meantime?

Xenophobe3691 wrote:

Gandalf wrote: I don't plan to go to University for a year or so at least.

What do you plan on doing in the meantime?

Not much, a friend of mine's mother is moving away, so the house may be rented out to a bunch of us, and I'll probably get a job to I can enjoy my nothingness.

Congradulations Gandolf.

SOmeone already gave ya the 21 RailGun salute, so here's mine

(21 Eclipse Star Destroyer fire there primary weapon)

Gandalf wrote: Not much, a friend of mine's mother is moving away, so the house may be rented out to a bunch of us, and I'll probably get a job to I can enjoy my nothingness.

Congratulations, here's hoping it pulls through and you get a year of freedom and experience in the real world!

*Opens a bottle of Jack Daniels and chugs away...*

Gandalf wrote:Title says it all, I have graduated with no honour, no accomplishment, no good grades. But a lot of quotes, many think I'm a funny man.

I also scored a mention in our year advisor's speech, for my knowledge of Klingon.

Now for the real world...

WD, humour can get you a long way. What vocaton will you choose? (IT is bad here, unless you have 25 years UNIX XP, MCSE, CCNE, CNE, specialise in .NET, COBOL, J2EE and can convert binary to octadecimal in your head)

Class of 79.
Enjoy being young while it lasts, because it won't.
You won't notice the time passing until, like the Pink Floyd song "Time,"

"Ticking away,
the moments that make up a dull day,
fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way,
kicking around,
on a piece of ground,
in your home town,
waiting for someone or something to show you the way,

tired of lying in the sunshine,
staying home to watch the rain,
you are young and life is long,
and there is time to kill today,

And then one day you find,
Ten years have got behind you,
no one told you when to run,
you missed the starting gun!

and you run and run,
to catch up with the sun,
but it's sinking,
racing around,
to come up behind you again,
the sun is the same, in a relative way but you're older,
shorter of breath,
and one day closer to death,

every year is getting shorter,
never seem to find the time,
plan that either come to naught,
or half a page of scribbled line,
hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way,

the time is gone,
the song is over,
though I'd something more to say."


God I feel old.

Hethrir wrote:WD, humour can get you a long way. What vocaton will you choose? (IT is bad here, unless you have 25 years UNIX XP, MCSE, CCNE, CNE, specialise in .NET, COBOL, J2EE and can convert binary to octadecimal in your head)

Wow, I understood about 1/3 of that. Guess its good that I decided to go to college for birds and not computers.

Grr, you get to stay home and basically do whatever you want besides work. You're the kind of people who have the free time available to make mind-bogglingly awesome 3d models, huge and immense fanfics, and all sorts of other good stuff.


Bask in the oblivion-like warmth that is my envy.

Further good news:

Later that night, at a post grad party, I found a few alcoholic beverages that very much suited my tastes. (I'm 18 now, so it's not illegal.)

Gandalf wrote:Further good news:

Later that night, at a post grad party, I found a few alcoholic beverages that very much suited my tastes. (I'm 18 now, so it's not illegal.)

Damn you and your enlightened government! We must purchase our alcoholic beverages illegally! Um...did I say that? I meant we must purchase our healthy fruit juices secretly...um...shutting up now.

congrats!

Congratulations!

Gandalf wrote:Further good news:

Later that night, at a post grad party, I found a few alcoholic beverages that very much suited my tastes. (I'm 18 now, so it's not illegal.)

Well I live in the US, and I once met someone who would have been able to drink legally at her Post High School Graduation party. Thats right, she graduated High School at the age of 21.

Macross wrote:Well I live in the US, and I once met someone who would have been able to drink legally at her Post High School Graduation party. Thats right, she graduated High School at the age of 21.

My local people called those kinds of students, "super seniors"

Macross wrote:

Gandalf wrote:Further good news:

Later that night, at a post grad party, I found a few alcoholic beverages that very much suited my tastes. (I'm 18 now, so it's not illegal.)

Well I live in the US, and I once met someone who would have been able to drink legally at her Post High School Graduation party. Thats right, she graduated High School at the age of 21.

Sorry, but what is normal in the US?

18, generally. A few 17. A few 19.

Well done, you are now in an excellent position to find out that you know nothing, something that the real world will soon show you If your school was any good, I truly trust that they enabled you to know what you dont know.

anarchistbunny wrote:

Hethrir wrote:WD, humour can get you a long way. What vocaton will you choose? (IT is bad here, unless you have 25 years UNIX XP, MCSE, CCNE, CNE, specialise in .NET, COBOL, J2EE and can convert binary to octadecimal in your head)

Wow, I understood about 1/3 of that. Guess its good that I decided to go to college for birds and not computers.

Not sure which parts you mean, but I'll babble on quickly about them. It was mostly hyperbole on my part to prove the point that you have to be stupidly qualified to earn any cash here.

A+ : Basic hardware diagnosis and repair. The most useless test in the world that teaches you nothing.
MCP : Microsoft Certified Professional : Basic administrator of a Microsoft product
MCSE : Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer : Engineer in a MS product - build servers, design networks etc...
CCNE : Cisco Certified Network Engineer : You can play with Cisco switches and routers!!
CNA : Certified Novell Administrator : You can be LAN admin on a Netware site!!
CNE : Certified Novell Engineer : You can build, design and play with Novell networks, servers, trees etc...
.NET : After MS got caught red handed stealing off Sun, they came up with their own "Middleware" solution called dot net. It's basically a web application solution consisting of VB.NET, C.NET etc...
COBOL : COmmon Business-Oriented Language : old language i included for silliness
J2EE : Suns new product that 'competes' with .NET.

Hethrir wrote:snip
A+ : Basic hardware diagnosis and repair. The most useless test in the world that teaches you nothing. snip

How do you think people learn how to fix generic computer problems? osmosis?

Stuart Mackey wrote:How do you think people learn how to fix generic computer problems? osmosis?

The trouble with A+ is that it teaches people to memorise useless facts and figures, and doesn't teach the 'tech mindest.' I know MCP and A+ certified people who don't know what a command prompt is, or how to resolve an IP address to a MAC address. That's the important stuff, not knowing how many registers are in a 386 SX processor, or the exact switches to setup Windows 95 from an NT4 box. That correctect answer to the last two is: Who cares? I'll look it up if i ever have to do that.