What an Ivy League Phd thinks of us

[Ruddigore]

haha...When I opened up this thread I was fully expecting to read a lot of derogatory commentary from the PhD towards us. So, I guess this is a pleasant surprise :p

Almost all of my "friends" who are in college look down on me and openly make fun of this method.

I am not respected for the way I'm getting my degree.

Most of the time when people ask me where I'm going to school and I explain to them, I'm asked a lot of incriminating questions and then viewed rather narrowly. You go through that about 100 times and it starts to wear on you.

Yep, I know the feeling. I'm 19, so most of my friends are looking at colleges, finishing their freshmen year, or finishing their sophomore year. Folk at church ask me what I'm doing, I kindly explain, and they (generally) answer kindly. The "Then I'll be going to Grad school" part always helps too.

Recently, someone I know asked a close friend of mine why he hadn't opted to use CLEPs. His answer was motivation. He said that he wasn't sure he could do college that way. The first person replied, "That's not college" -- while looking at me more than him. Thanks for the encouragement there! I think this person is still sore that I can get 30 credits for the GRE, which is somehow "wrong," let alone that I already have more credits than this person who started on college a year before me. In fact, I realized last night that I've already earned more credit than all of my college age friends.

Those students two or three years older than me have had to remain home for multiple semesters on account of money or health issues. All of you know something that could help them, but they are determined that they are not smart enough to study a college class on their own, which vexes me greatly.

But enough of that! Time to read some Astronomy.

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