
I don't think it matters how much "time and effort" you put into high school or college these days. High school and college are both huge jokes. Everybody who has been through both would agree. I barely showed up my senior year of high school and was hella high 24/7. I went to community college for two years and got good grades. I eventually transfered to a good four year school and graduated. I did alright there. But when you are in college, all of your peers are pressuring you to slack off and smoke hella weed and get drunk every other night. It's known as the "college experience"

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It is a proven fact that the vast majority of college students learn nothing in college. Nowadays, going to college is actually a bad move for millions of people out there. They go to college for 4-6+ years and emerge 30-100K+ in debt and usually no one will hire them except Starbucks
if they lucky.

Small businesses are beginning to believe that young college grads are unemployable and they may be right. How does getting drunk three times a week for four years briefly interrupted by writing papers about Shakespeare prepare you to shoulder the serious and heavy responsibility of maintaining steady business for a multimillion dollar company.
I'm from the Bay, but I live in suburban Maryland now. Most people I know doing well out here ain't particularly that smart, capable or educated
at all. They got lucky and got good jobs with the federal gubmint or work for a big company like Verizon wireless and they will tell you themselves that they don't do shyt all day at "work" but surf the net all day looking at porn and plentyofffish

. Alot of life is luck. If you from the hood, you've know this since you were old enough to aim your dikk and piss straight.