How far would you have to fall to consider yourself a failure

College Life
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<p>Hold up- if some of you are serious on the CC hate then I’m offended! Going to a CC does NOT mean you had a bad high school experience and will not succeed! </p>

<p>On that note, I don’t really know what I would consider as a failure. I would be really disappointed in myself if I didn’t get anywhere that was even an inch close to my dream job, but I would keep trying.</p>

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<p>Out of all my friends, the one I consider the most exceptionally bright and impressive was a transfer student from a community college. Well, at least tied for the most impressive!</p>

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<p>“Hold up- if some of you are serious on the CC hate then I’m offended! Going to a CC does NOT mean you had a bad high school experience and will not succeed!”</p>

<p>I take my comment back than - i forget there are other examples, but in general, when I am taking courses in CC, I see a lot of kids who just screwed up in one way or another and never lived up to their true potential, which they soon after do.</p>

<p>I know there are lots of examples of CC to ivy (which inspire me a lot) and the regular route that I see, which is CC to State U to Ivy/Ivy quality for grad. So, that is what I meant by having a bad high school experience. Almost everyone around me has gone that route in one way or another.</p>

<p>I don’t hate CCs, in fact I love them for giving people a good education and a second shot.</p>

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<p>I can’t believe I have no idea what is the minimum lowest I have to get to be considered a failure. I wonder what that says about me :/</p>

<p>I guess it’s when you have no absolute control of your life. If you don’t earn your own income, you can’t drive, you live with your overprotective parents who treat you like a twelve year old, you don’t have enough friends to regularly hang out with when you’re bored in the house, etc. However this can always be reversed with time and patience…</p>

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<p>Dropping out of college and becoming a drug addict would be a pretty low point for me.</p>

<p>Or not getting into college, period. That’s a low point for me too.</p>

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<p>Considering this is CC, I would expect responses like “going to a state college,” “becoming a humanities major” or “having to take less than 18 credits in a semester,”</p>

<p>I’ve done two out of three of the above.</p>

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<p>barely getting a B on a test with a 12 point curve</p>

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<p>I bet I can guess which one you haven’t done: you were never a humanities major.</p>

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<p>That was actually going to be my response. haha…</p>

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<p>Any state college besides the UC system, because if I’m going out of state there’s no way it’s going to be to a state college. And, since I live in CA, I’d rather not get stuck in the CSU system. </p>

<p>Getting less than a 4.0 weighted GPA.
Living paycheck to paycheck.
Getting rejected from every college I apply to, including safeties. (Unlikely, but still.)
Not getting my IB Diploma.
Dropping IB.
Being altogether miserable.</p>