That's an experience I regret missing out on. I have been seriously thinking about doing some A levels recently as it's never too late but at home lol.

Well there's a fair share of mature students on my course so you're not the only one. Go for it if you have the time.

i made some new friends, and by friends i mean the mexican semantics associated variety, not the american.

Same. In my final year of Arts there were plenty of people in their 30s, 40s and 50s. You should go for it jackhammer! :)

ditto. there's two women in my class in their 30s, and a few more in the print journalism major who are in their 30's or 40's. never too late for it.

It was something about my Alzheimer's disease, but i can't remember.http://labas-lietuva.com/modules/For...on_neutral.gif

Im 21 and im the youngest person on my degree. Do it.

As for me... splitting up with my girlfriend. May sound harsh, but doing that opened up so many new opportunities :)

I'd say Barack Obama being elected, but that's so cliche; also I don't actually KNOW whether he'll make good on his promises or not...

I'll go with getting some better friends at school.

It maybe considered kinda sad, but one of the best things to happen to me in 2008 was REM releasing accelerate - it was huge buzz hearing one of my all time favorite bands getting back to some of their best stuff...

Other than that, getting the new job I started last year in Spetemjber, working as a teacher assistant working with kids with disabilities.

I was an elementary (Pruimary School) teacher in Australia before I moved to the states, but last year I got licensed to work in schools here, and I am aiming to gradually work my way back to classroom teaching, but for now, what I am doing is satisfying enough... 2008 was the year I got my career back on track!

Then I sincerely hope you're not wasting time and money by going. Because for many people, university was/is the best investment of time and money ever spent.

As for me, it would probably be getting accepted into the photo major. My life would have had to take a very different path that I would not have been nearly as happy with had I not gotten in.

Best thing that happened to me in 2008 was meeting my 1st boyfriend and falling in love with him. It happened really unexpectedly how we met and how we got together. It was the 1st time i genuinely felt loved (apart from my best friends and family).

It's sad now that we're apart for now. He's in US for his internship, while i'm here in Singapore. =(

Awwww, I feel for ya - I'm no stranger to the long distance relationship thing... My wife and did the long distance relationship routine for a good six years before i moved here to the States from Australia - hang in there! It's tough, but if you have plenty of strength and plenty of love for each other, you'll get through!

I'm happily married now with three kids, so my story worked out well!

That's sweet! He'll stay there for a good 1 yr after which he'll go back to France to complete his studies. It's gonna be difficult, but for me, i think that so long as we really love each other and want this to work, we'll get thru somehow. It's definitely worth the try and you'll never know unless u've tried, that's wat i think :)

My wife would have dearly loved to move to Australia, but she had a son already before I met her and he still loves to see his dad, and I love the kid to bits, so there is no way we'd EVER want to break his heart... so moving to Australia is off the agenda for the moment, but it is always in our long term plans... when Melissa's son grows up enough to make choices for himself I'm sure the idea will start floating around again...

As for now, I am incredibly happy where I am... Honestly, I wouldn't care if i was in the middle of Antartica so long as I was with my wife and our kiddies. I love them all more dearly than anything I've ever known. I thi nk our time apart only made us stronger, more determined to make things happen - I think being apart and staying in love can be incredibly strengthening! I hope it is just the same for you!

and I've met very few people who haven't gone to uni who were anything but ignorant and unambitious losers.

....but sure, a handful of 'em are alright

;)

I did very well at uni last year with a minimal amount of effort (halfway through now), but that's nothing unusual (not trying to brag). I guess the best part of the year was flatting with mates I met the year before - we've had a great year.

Aside from that it's been a somewhat lame and banal year - it was also the first time in four years I didn't do anything with friends over New Year's.

Thanks Scottsy :)

Of course you don't know that


Yeh your absolutely right we should let the intelligent people get in. **** Grades :usehead: I'd rather let a hard working idiot who does good in school go further with his schooling than some lazy person who happens to be really smart

I killed a zombie.

Despite spending the entire year looking for a job and not having any success (as well as losing the part time job I did have in April because my supervisor was a douche bag who thought it was cool to kick me in the vagina and hit my ass with his keys and stuff), I finally got to go to culinary school. I moved to St. Augustine from Jacksonville, which has proved to be *** and cool at the same time. Lots of things have happened this year that have been sort of bittersweet. It hasn't been a bad year, but it's definitely been a crazy year. I'm hoping 09 will prove to be better, but I have a feeling it's going to be every bit as insane.

what would be the point... SO that they can under succeed some more?

I found my band. we are defect and we will rule the world!

I'll keep my eye out for that name! Which countries do you plan to take out first in your quest for world domination?

Just kidding! Good to see some unbridled enthusiasm around the place!

well we are from new zealand, so thats a start scottsy, next will be the great continent of aussie, then..................the rest!!

There is no reason to hate stupid people... Some people are smart some people are dumb... why keep the stupid people from being able to do everything else the smart people can do?

Enrolling in music school and figuring out my major.

Consty, first take Melbourne then the Australian music scene is YOURS! All great music starts in Melbourne, next best is Brisbane, then Perth, then I gotta say kind things about beautiful Adelaide, the place I was born, and still my home at heart, even though I am living in the US right now...

They Sydney music scene is... mostly "blah" to me...

But much great music comes from New Zealand, home of the wonderful Finn Brothers (and sons now, too, I guess....)

We've had a stupid person in a smart man's job for the past eight years. Look how well off America is now.

I got my heartbroken, badly.

It's made me a stronger person and also really motivated me to improve myself. :o:

The president has never really been a "smart man's job"; some of the most intelligent (Coolidge, Harding, Taylor, Carter) have made some of the worst presidents, and vice versa. America has been much more acclimated to having inept presidents with competent advisors.

Of course, Bush has set records for new lows, but incompetence isn't his number one flaw.

Global Warming has been considered an accident.
I thinks thats both funny and good.

Oh yeah, I forgot about all those idiot presidents that are considered the best. Like Lincoln, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, Jackson, Washington, Jefferson, etc.

Jackson certainly wasn't an intelligent president (his campaign labeled him "a man of the people"). In the twentieth century alone, we had Clinton, Reagan, JFK, Truman, and Wilson fill out excellent years in office, though none of them were academically talented or particularly intelligent. I won't deny that Jefferson was a great leader and rather intelligent, but he was an outstanding exception.

Amen brah.

I'm not even going to argue the intelligence or success of the people you mentioned because your own intelligence shows here. Woodrow Wilson wasn't academically talented? He was the President of Princeton genius.

Also smart generals tend to make good presidents. Also you're going to have come up with a better reason for Jackson's supposed stupidity than "man of the people" he earned that label for democratizing the elections.

Like Ulysses S. Grant, you mean?

Correct me if im wrong ( i may be) but wasnt he also a teacher at Princeton and another prominent law firm in New York?

So yes;), he was smart.

And LS how do you figure all those others were not academically smart???

Nope we didn't it on purpose

and shhh but I gotta hunch that its all a big scam

moving to student halls was undoubtedly the best decision i made/best thing I did all year.

My statement wasn't absolute, nice try. I said tend to. However I still feel smart people make better presidents than dumb ones. I'm sorry you find that objectionable.