<p>I live in Indiana, 1 hour from Purdue. I heard that students in Indiana are almost guaranteed into Purdue. I also have a few awards from competitions in Purdue (Local, Indiana thing)...Would it be worth doing a TON of work to get into MIT for engineering or go to Berkeley, or should I just keep my life easier and try for Purdue? Is there a HUGE difference in pay for the jobs after I graduate?</p>
<p>Not if you graduate junior year.</p>
<p>Wby not do what you think will be nest personally for yku during High School (ignoring college, just doing what you feel passionate about) then apply where you want.
At least wait till youve finished Freshman year, and all the transitions are done.
Prestige is nothing if the school isn’t the right fit for you. And there’s always Grad school</p>
<p>CSI and Atlantic, why do you reply on ALL of my threads? lol jk, thanks guys. CSI, my school requires 7 semesters because they’re gay like that. Atlantic, I know that after grad school under grad doesn’t matter. What does it take to get into MIT for Grad school, I don’t want to push myself so much that I have a mental breakdown, which I feel High school will do to me.</p>
<p>Im addicted to potential drama…its a problem :p</p>
<p>Well if you overload you’ll you wont get good grades anyway right
So just try for a courseload that’s rigorous but manageable</p>
<p>You know what I don’t get. Why do we have so much homework? Why give us 4 hours of work a night, they know the recommended amount for a 9th grader is 1.5 hours right? Other countries like Denmark give little to no homework to their students, yet they are the top of the education systems of the world. Why are we trying to mimic Asian countries that stress out their students to a point of suicide, why not mimic Denmark? Also, from what I have heard “the real world”, that people say is hell and SOOO much work, is much, much easier than high school, and she has a job in business (marketing), and got into Kelley Business school. Her quote, “yeah, high school was hell”.</p>
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I had a good laugh at that. </p>
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Maybe because they’re active posters…? And haven’t you made like two threads…?</p>
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It’s pretty clear that numerous systems that the US uses are inefficient and outdated…yet we claim to be to most innovative but yet cling to things that set us back. .Plus our country, whether visible or not, is run by money. </p>
<p>To finally answer your question: </p>
<p>It seems to me that you are lazy. You try to take the easiest way out. Why not discover what your dreams/passions are and accomplish them. Why not work for something great rather than beig passive and sitting back, saying, “Oh, it’ll be easier doing this.” try for something. Work for something. If you keep your current mindset, you’re going to have the most mediocre, unsatifying life that is overrun with self-pity and whatifs. Do you want that? Didn’t think so.</p>
<p>Accomplish something. You’ll look back and say that you worked your arse off and you’re going to feel darn proud of yourself. It feels a lot better in the long run. A lot better than playing it safe.</p>
<p>Niquii, No, it’s that I hate school. I’m not alone in that, some of the greatest minds and the most successful people who have ever lived said that they hated school too, they keep you in a room for 8 hours then give you hours of work to do at home. Niquii, It seems to me like YOU jump to conclusions about people, you just to seem to jump to that fact if someone is lazy they will have a medioce, unsatisfying life, not even because I’m lazy, because I hate school. Albert Einstein hated school, his life was by no means mediocre. I hate the fact that we are forced to do stuff and learn **** we will NEVER use and that I don’t care about. Also, there’s a famous internet “bill gates” quote (don’t know if it’s real), it says something like, I always find a lazy person to solve a problem, because he will find the easiest way to do it…lazy isn’t always bad. =)</p>
<p>Just because your homework is taking you 4 hours does not mean it takes everybody 4 hours. You need to learn to be more efficient. The idea of 10 minutes per grade level works for younger students, but it does not translate to High School. (th graders should not have only 90 minute of homework. They should have whatever it takes to facilitate what they are learning in their classes, whether it is reading a chapter in their Biology or History books, or a segment of a novel for English. If you think 9th grade homework is too hard, come back next year and tell us how hard 10th grade is. According to your other thread you’re taking AP World History. Are you complaining about the amount of homework there? It’s a college level class - if it’s too much work, maybe you should reconsider. The idea of HS is to prepare you for college. If you hate school now, you’re not going to like MIT.</p>
<p>And please, don’t compare yourself with Albert Einstein. Not all students who hate school are Einsteins. Seems to me, your school is offering you challenging classes - something that was not offered to Albert Einstein. Do you honestly believe you will never again use the things you are learning in school? Then I guess maybe you won’t be going to MIT after all. In your English classes you are hopefully learning to communicate in an intelligent manner - something you will need in your future job as an engineer. History - you need a basis for what others have done before you, so you don’t repeat their mistakes… Chemistry and Pre-Calc, you need to build a foundation for those engineering classes you plan to take. You just want to skip over the basics and jump right into the more fun topics. The problem is you have to build your foundation first. Maybe it seems tedious, but it’s what has to be done. Beginning piano players learn their scales, and repeat them over and over until they’re burned into their minds. Very boring, but also a strong foundation for what they will learn later.</p>
<p>Let me just by saying this: 1) I’m blunt. I don’t sugarcoat stuff. 2) I wasn’t attacking you do no need to get defensive. 3) You misunderstood what I said. </p>
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I don’t like that part of school, either. I enjoy the discussions in school as much as the next “greatest mind”. </p>
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This is where you draw the wrong conclusion. I said that if you sit back and take the easier route and not work for anything than you’re life will be filled with self-pity and whatifs. Self-pity and whatifs causes your life to be mediocre and unsatisfying. Not the other way around. Why live a life that you look back and say, “I could’ve done…it’d be great if I’d done…what if I had done…”. Why live a life like that. The pride that swells inside of you after you accomplish something that you worked hard on is tens times better and will last ten times longer than taking the easy route. </p>
<p>I said that you should work for what you want. You want to MIT? Work for it. Strive for it. Don’t question it. Do it. Lazy wasn’t the right word. Doubtful is probably more accurate. Your doubtfulness seems like laziness in my eyes so that was an error on my part. </p>
<p>I’m basically saying: Do what you want to do. I’m not trying to bring to bring you down whatsoever.
This:
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<p>was just an exaggeration. I didn’t think you’d take it so literally.</p>
<p>Let’s all relax</p>
<p>Most people at MIT, probably arent lazy though.
That’s all I have to say. If you’re not able to
Effectively master the work load you have now
Then there’s no use burning yourself out for MIT.
Do what you can handle. Nothing more, Nothing
Less. You may be able to handle all the APs and
This that and the oyher thing, But theres more to school than that</p>