Hey comrades, I’m thinking about getting a degree. About 7-8 months ago I made a post asking about the process of obtaining citizenship in China and I was met with the expected response that I should continue my education if I wished to stay there long-term. Initially I dismissed the advice and just put away the idea of living in China long-term, but in the past few months I think I’ve come around to continuing my education.
This is a big deal for me, I dropped out of highschool when I was 18 and just two years from graduation because the school I was going to would shut down and I couldn’t stomach starting over again at a new school in the middle of the George Floyd Riots and the COVID-19 Pandemic. I eventually tried to finish my highschool diploma but when the school went under a bunch of my credits just vanished into thin air and I was looking at another 3½ years of highschool so I gave up again.
Now I’m 23 and with the support of my comrades on the commune I am finally feeling confident about picking up my schooling again, I’m planning on biting the bullet on the GED (which I should have done in the first place instead of going for the highschool diploma) and applying for college.
I’m looking at mycology, I’ve had an interest in it since I was 18 and I love microscopic organisms. Fungi are extremely interesting to me and I’d love to learn more about them in ways that are not from the pervasive pop-science or spiritual/psychedelic angles that dominate in the West.
I just wanted to share this with others, I’m excited and I’ve already started crawling through my old textbooks!
Thats cool my mom actually does stuff with fungi
That’s great news comrade.
If you decide to go through with it, know that we’re with you every step of the way if you want our help comrade!
Going to China and studying mushrooms sounds awesome! Good luck.
Get good, be one with the shrooms…
when they school went under
My God what a country
Yeah the school’s grants were embezzled by some dude and then they didn’t meet the minimum amount of students so they were shut down. It was a pretty awesome school besides that, I enjoyed learning there.
I dropped out of school when I was 16 and also went back for my GED, starting community college at 23.
If you havent looked, a nearby community college or workforce development center may offer free or low cost GED classes, which may also reimburse part of the test cost. That really helped when I hadn’t done any math for years.
My experience at community college was extremely supportive and I don’t know that I would have been successful at a university without it. If you go that route, youll probably run into a lot other folks your age or even older. I had a 70 year man in one of my classes and a 50 year old man in a few who wanted to change careers.
College changed my life and has allowed me to surpass all expectations anyone had of me, so I hope you’re able to get the same sort of experience and take advantage of all the people and resources available to you.