i'm only 17, i just graduated highschool, last september, had my final exams october to november, and i can't remember december.
First, I start year 11 (2nd last year of highschool, I live in sydney, BTW) my mum trying to get me to work 24/7 on my school work
so i don't. I have BETTER things to do, like my music and drool over lamborghini's all day long (it helps in motivation)
Then year 12 starts, begining of 2003, and i swear to god, 4-5 times a week, my mum won't stop pissing me off with the following lines: "SO WHAT R U GONG 2 DO AT UNIVERSITY?" assuming that I was going in the first place... My reply is as follows: "I don't want to go to university"
her responce?
"You have to go, so what are you going to study?"
My responce??? "I'M NOT GOING!!!"
She says: "YES YOU ARE!"
See my point? See the trend?
for 5-6 months, this went on 4-5 and sometimes MORE PER week...
FINALLY she asks me why i don't want to go (by this time i had thought of a good excuse) and i explain that i'm sick of school now, i don't do any work in school as it is, what the hell makes you think i'll do work at uni? i'm SICK of school! i HATE it! i will NOT like university! I'm telling you now! I'm sick of learning, i want to have a break, get some sleep, and life live just a little bit before i make any life long commitments, plus, what the hell makes you think i'll use ANY degree that i come out with?"
she says "i will not let you waste your life away, i'm sending you to uni!"
for 8 months this went on, her dictating my life, telling me what I will be doing, whether i like it or not.
So what does she do? She gets ENROLEMENT forms, and a huge 600 page book about the differant courses, which she sat me down and literally went through the differant courses, trying to sell me the idea how much fun i'll have with such lines as "won't what be interesting! that sound like fun! oh wow! that sounds soo great! imagine the possibilities!"
Finally, september 13th, i give up. I gave up fighting, i already had a stable job offering me endless possibilities, and the only job that'll make me actually wealthy (long story), but mum couldn't see it, she was blinded by her ignorance, and her believe that university is the ONLY key to sucess! she's under the impression that if i want a lamborghini i'll have to waste 3 years of my life and use a degree, WELL IF IT'LL MAKE ME RICH, WHERE ARE YOUR MILLIONS MUM? YOU HAVE A UNI DEGREE IN MICROBIOLOGY! WHERE'S THE PORSCHE OUT THE FRONT? HUH! TELL ME!!
Goddam it, so i gave up as i said, i went through that book, and i picked out a bachelor of creative arts: sound composition and production, i'm a musician so it'll be mildly interesting for me.
I enroll.
Here's how to get into university: go good in highschool, and get a UAI (University Admission Index) ranked from 0-100. The highly smart people who work non-stop get 90+...It's basically a rank, a number you're given, and what ever number you get is your rank in the state to other people, it depends on subjects you took and how good at them you were.
To do Information Technology, the UAI was 90.2, if you got under that (that's 90% of the people) you can't do it.
My arts degree was 80.5, so in order to NOT get accepted, i needed a lower uai that 80. I got 56.9, i'm dissapointed in that, but that basically ment that no UNI for me! So i'm happy
90 people sat the hsc in my school, 3 got over 90, that's showing the odds.
then mum turns to me, and says 'oh, there's allways tafe' so we go through the same arguments about tafe, I DON'T WANT TO GO THERE EITHER!!!!!!
At this point, i'm already earning more than my mum in one week than what my mum earns in a fortnight, but she thinks it's "not right for me" as if she knew in the first place!
Then january 10th, or what ever, a monday, the university's first round of offers came in, and i got accepted! Which basically meant from now i'll be ditching, literally, 200k to earn NO money, and come out with a degree i don't even WANT! Or use!
This pisses me off because that forces me part time, and i'm only doing 1/10th of the work i can do, and because of that, i'm not earning any money, and now mum is forcing me to pay for my own f'king transport!
Which will end up costing me 12k in 3 years, i don't even have that much saved up!
Here's the stupid part, she said she'll pay for my fee's, so we get the friggen bill 2 weeks back (mid febuary) of 3 thousand bucks for this year alone, she looks at it and screams "I CAN'T AFFORD THIS!" which is basically forcing me in a situation to pay for my OWN F'KING FEE'S FOR SOMETHING I DON'T EVEN WANT!!!
Goddamn this pisses me off just thinking about it
don't get me wrong, i like uni, and i like the course, but lets be realistic, I WONT USE IT!!!
not to mention 3 years of no income, having to pay for my own transport, and if i'm lucky, mum will pay 1/2 my fees.
i'm in the 3rd week of uni, and already, i've spent 30 bucks on transport., and had to fill my car up twice because i've had to drive down, that's 50 bucks, so in total, my 3 week outcome is 80 bucks. and this week isn't over yet.
goddamn it.