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[Christian Knudsen]

My mom says that either I DO MY FUCKING STUDIES or quit.

Who the hell would tell their child this?!

[antybaner]

how to get through high school

1. stop caring about grades

2. do everything last minute

3. ??
 
4. PROFIT

This is what I am doing!!! 

I dono.

My mom says that either I DO MY FUCKING STUDIES or quit.

Who the hell would tell their child this?!

[Inanimate]

There's a difference between "not caring about grades" and "not doing anything at all".

[SirNiko]

Quitting is for quitters.

Stay in school. That piece of paper proves you have the guts to stick things out even when you're tired, sad, or bored.

You might be in a hurry to get to the meat of life, but you don't sound like you're ready for it, and you certainly won't be convincing any future employers you're ready for it. Rushing ahead will only get you killed (probably metaphorically, but maybe literally).

Besides, you get three frigging months of summer vacation a year, plus like a month for winter break. That is a sweet-ass deal. I get only a week and I have to make up for it when I get back at the end.

This reminds me I really want to go back and get my PhD.

[C.A. Sinner]

i'd say it's pretty normal to plan to "quit school" as a teen at least once, as in "fuck <insert subject i don't like> i'm going to quit school!!!11" i don't know a single person who hasn't.

[dEnamed]

Pretty much what Sinclair said. It's quite common really.
Anyways, at this point, the kid has fallen down the well already. Nothing we say can change his mind. He'll either pick up the pace on his own and get over the phase, or smell like fries and burgers all day. It's okay. Society needs dropouts. Couldn't function without them. So go for it kid, drop out, I'll make sure to spare a coin or two when you deliver my lunch.

[Nix]

Quiting high school is the worst idea you could possibly have. You're supposed to be miserable for four more years. Then you can look back and reminisce about how much you hated it. If you drop out, you'll be homeless and pathetic in five years. You said you had schizophrenia when you were younger, so I assume you have a therapist. If you don't, though, find someone to talk to who will support you in finishing school and making a plan to get through. Also, it's not about learning. It's about getting a piece of paper that society uses to decide whether or not you deserve to have a job and live a life without heroin. It's worth it.

[cystem glitch]

I strongly suggest you stay in school and don't go back to homeschooling. The 'piece of paper' means absolutely nothing, but the socialization is crucial. You will be missing out of a huge part of life. If you are an 'outcast' you will meet other outcasts you can relate to, and you guys can skip school or mess around all you want - but stay in school.

[TaintedFork]

I'm going to echo what everybody else has said. Do not quit.

I'm currently in high school as well and I think I understand where you're coming from. I would love to be making games in all of my spare time, except I hardly have any spare time as a result of being a student!

My advice to you is to challenge yourself. It sounds cliche, and you might hear it a lot, but it's true. I was placed in a lower language class than I was supposed to last year, and it was awful. I was bored to death EVERY SINGLE DAY and dreaded going there. Later I moved up to the proper class and found myself much more happy.

Also, you would be surprised how much the little things help. I hadn't decided to go into game development until the end of last year, but now that I have, I've been really happy with myself. I've noticed that, although I didn't take any classes focused on game development or programming (my school doesn't even offer any), things from other classes started coming into play. Even if you feel your schedule is not tailored to helping you down this path, you may be surprised. I've gotten lots of good ideas and advice from teachers in completely unrelated subjects. None of them even know that I want to go into this field, but I've still learned a lot and benefited quite a bit from the experience.

School is important in more ways than one as well. There's the social aspect - learning to get along with others. You'll make many friends along the way, and they all add something new to your life. Each of my friends are very distinctive people, and they have helped me in many ways, and I know that I've made a difference to them, too.

Our experiences define us (and, subsequently, will define our games in some ways). By skipping out of this, you're essentially ditching this ever-so important aspect of your life. It may not feel like it, but I think you may find that school helps you in game development far more than you expect. It certainly has done so for me.

Bottom line: Stay in school. Learn from your teachers, learn from your friends, learn from the community.

I can tell you first-hand that school has made a very large difference in my life, both as just a person, and as a developer. Little things matter. In school, there are tons of little things along the way to improve you as a person. Don't leave that behind. Embrace it!

[DET. Defective]

I was going to make a dumb post about how I dropped out and how much of a bad idea it was, but I scrapped it.

Hell, let's try to make a dumb post anyway.

Don't. Unless you've got a job planned out and you're deadset on taking the GED test the first moment you can, don't do it.

[Trevor Dunbar]

Don't quit, when it's all over you'll look back and kind-of be sad you can't go there anymore.

You'll have fond (and probably not so fond, but funny) memories of things that happened there you won't ever get to experience ever again.

All the people you remember from school will go away or do stupid things later and you won't see many of them ever again unless they are your close friends.

All your teachers will move on and change schools. If you really liked them or not, you probably won't ever see them again.

Just go to school. Besides, some of the math you learn WILL come in handy if you want to make games later. Your teachers won't tell you this or demonstrate how, but later, you'll plug-in some of the math you learned and be like, "oh yeah, I remember this..."

15. I want a mustache already. Dang.

No you don't, facial hair fucking sucks if you find out you don't want some. You know how sick of shaving I am? I shave and a few days later it's like I never did anything. It totally blows.

[oyog]

So pre-college school is programming you to be capable of doing the kind of work involved at college.  Why is that a good thing?  Well, where I live (CorporateUnited States of America) college means you start any job making more money per hour, regardless of field because your time, not your labor, is worth money, everything is just fairer that way.

As far as I can tell, the longer you stay in school, post high school, the more likely you are to be doing something you enjoy and getting paid plenty doing it once you finish.

Keep in mind this is an investment because, at least in the US, as you go to school you rack up debt.  That means as you're in school you should be working towards a job that, in the end, will pay off all that debt plus serve your own needs to survive.  You're also (likely) spending a good portion of you parents money which you may end up returning to them later in any number of ways because that's what they did and have expected of you ever since you were born.

Or, on the other hand you could skip all that and work a dead end job (or make a few dollars making indie games)  while spending all your free time relaxing and following your hobbies (like playing or making indie games) like I do.  Admittedly you (and by you I mean me) may end up occasionally feeling like it'd be worth it to go to college and make more at a job that challenges you.

I don't even want to get into 401k/pensions and what might happen if the many first world governments decide they can't provide for their citizens.

Whew.  That was a lot of projecting but, damn, I wish someone had just told me all that when I was in kindergarten.

[leonelc29]

ah to be young again

i just wish that i can became young again

plus, you will regret it, 100%, if you drop out. maybe you won't feel that immediately, but after 2 or 3 year, you will get it. so what we wan you to do is keep on with the education. forget what your mom said, because WE ARE YOUR MOM!(lol, no offence, or stuff.)

think like this, primary and secondary education is actually those free time that you can use to develop some game, since you doesn't need to worry about paying the bill and stuff like what other TIGer have to worry.

so...

1)continue study
2)make some game(regardless it's good or not)
3)learn more.

win win.

[thatshelby]

42:1. You lose.

[moi]

if you quit school you might be forced to take jobs that you won't like.
Like being the janitor in your high school or acting in GAY PORN.
At least 50% of GAY PORN actors are heterosexual men who never thought they'd do this until they needed the money.

It's a harsh world out there, you think you'll succeed in making music or videogames?
Less than one percent of aspiring musicians or devellopers end up being succesful.
If you were clever you'd stay in school and set yourself some challenges like trying to outsmart everybody else in the classroom by the end of the year.