Originally Posted by RoxyRollah

Ok so I am gonna take a moment and vent, something that has been a huge problem in my life. And only a handful of the members that I am close with know this about me. Before I enrolled in college, I had 3rd grade education. I was raised by a psychotic after my mother passed away. So being a generally happy go lucky 8 year old I was kinda stoked when my aunt (the psychotic) told me I no longer was going to be going to school. Now, I had no issue with the GED, I walked in to my local high school at 26 and took it. And passed unreasonably high for an uneducated woman. When I got my GED, I was so proud of myself. Now I am in college (at 30) and I find a lot of the fundamental things that one should know I don't know. And it's not because I am a ****in moron, but I was never taught. I took my mid term, today and walked away with a 90% which was the highest grade for this class, now why am I pissed you ask, not because I got a 90 and didn't study, but because once I am out of the core classes which is just around the corner after legal aspects, and firearm safety, I have gen eds, and in my gen eds there are not 6 students, and my professor is not Dr J, (who knows I came from a cult, is willing to sit with me and help me understand things like a number line for as long as it takes.) I guess I am bitching because I am scared, I will fall through the cracks, and not finish the degree I started. I am scared that if I raise my hand and ask a question, (which is more then likely considered "common knowledge") I will have to put 5-6 people in their place for either snickering, or just being insensitive *******s.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.