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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...
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"

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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...
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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.


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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.
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"

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"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
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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?
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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.
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Congradulations Gandolf.

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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!

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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)
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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.
Hmmmmmm.

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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.
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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.


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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.)
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
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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.
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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. :shock:
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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. :shock:
My local people called those kinds of students, "super seniors" :lol:
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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. :shock:
Sorry, but what is normal in the US?
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18, generally. A few 17. A few 19.
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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.
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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.

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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?
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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.
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