[He has nothing to add if not an analysis, about the topic. It's... Well, it's not a tragedy, because he's glad he didn't go to high school, but still.
And he's also interested in the answer to Kyna's question, waiting for Washington to respond.]
I was fourteen; the only parties I attended were ones my roommates were having or were invited to. By the time I was old enough to really get invites myself, I was in grad school.
[And grad school does not have fun parties, for the most part.]
I went to various study parties though, if you want to hear about depressing levels of nerdiness.
Hey, any gathering of people that involves talking and food can count as a party. They're just... Sometimes really bad parties.
[Like funerals. Definitely bad parties.]
But study parties were exactly what they sound like; a bunch of sad college students sit in a room and study, eat pizza, and occasionally declare they're dropping out or becoming a marketing major.
[ That's definitely not a party. Wash remains unconvinced by this definition... adding food to a gathering doesn't automatically make it a party, especially not if you specify that everyone is sad. Otherwise yeah, funerals would count, and things like AA meetings. He just shakes his head at Lance. ]
I was able to have a lot of classes waved for the bachelor's, and the doctorates required separate research and dissertations but could be built on the same master's, which I completed in a normal length of time. So it sounds more difficult than it was.
[Although all of that said, Washington is right; he pretty much worked nonstop, because he was very motivated to succeed. It wasn't necessarily a good thing, though.]
It's a long time to spend in college, but having not attended high school it kind of balanced out.
[Yeah, that's... A question, which Lance has to decide for several seconds how he wants to answer.]
I was not exactly that person that studies for fun, so as far as a lot of the classwork went, no. But keeping the end result and goal in mind made it worth doing, so it's not like I hated it, and the doctorates were also a lot more interesting which is why I did two of them.
[So, basically, he enjoyed research and writing papers, but coursework was a means to an end more than anything else.]
[Lance just nods at that, because yes, he was really sure. But his situation was strange, and a mix of a whole bunch of different things coming together, and absolutely not normal or anything that should be considered close to such.]
I was just a weird kid; it's not wrong to take longer to decide, and honestly it's probably a better idea to wait anyway. More life experience and that sort of thing, and sometimes you don't even know that what you want to do exists at first.
[Some fields are a lot more obscure than others, after all.]
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Date: 2017-12-30 07:50 am (UTC)What was high school like for you?
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Date: 2017-12-30 07:52 am (UTC)And he's also interested in the answer to Kyna's question, waiting for Washington to respond.]
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Date: 2017-12-30 08:01 am (UTC)I wasn't exactly winning any popularity contests back then. I mean. It's not like I am now, either, but kids can be shitty to each other.
[ And he had a bit of a reputation, but he does not want to discuss that around Lance. ]
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Date: 2017-12-30 08:12 am (UTC)[And now for the big question.]
What about college?
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Date: 2017-12-30 08:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-30 08:19 am (UTC)Oh, she was talking to you. I got drafted out of high school.
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Date: 2017-12-30 08:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-30 08:24 am (UTC)I was fourteen; the only parties I attended were ones my roommates were having or were invited to. By the time I was old enough to really get invites myself, I was in grad school.
[And grad school does not have fun parties, for the most part.]
I went to various study parties though, if you want to hear about depressing levels of nerdiness.
[Which he doesn't recommend.]
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Date: 2017-12-30 08:32 am (UTC)Studying is not a party.
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Date: 2017-12-30 08:35 am (UTC)Now you have to tell us about the study parties.
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Date: 2017-12-30 08:37 am (UTC)Hey, any gathering of people that involves talking and food can count as a party. They're just... Sometimes really bad parties.
[Like funerals. Definitely bad parties.]
But study parties were exactly what they sound like; a bunch of sad college students sit in a room and study, eat pizza, and occasionally declare they're dropping out or becoming a marketing major.
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Date: 2017-12-30 06:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-30 10:29 pm (UTC)[She's still smiling, though.]
How many years were you in college, anyway?
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Date: 2017-12-30 10:40 pm (UTC)[As for the question--]
About eight years. Two for my bachelor's degree, two for the master's, and then just under a combined four for the two doctorates.
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Date: 2017-12-30 11:23 pm (UTC)That seems really fast. You must've just worked nonstop.
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Date: 2017-12-30 11:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-30 11:35 pm (UTC)[Although all of that said, Washington is right; he pretty much worked nonstop, because he was very motivated to succeed. It wasn't necessarily a good thing, though.]
It's a long time to spend in college, but having not attended high school it kind of balanced out.
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Date: 2017-12-30 11:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-30 11:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-30 11:47 pm (UTC)I was not exactly that person that studies for fun, so as far as a lot of the classwork went, no. But keeping the end result and goal in mind made it worth doing, so it's not like I hated it, and the doctorates were also a lot more interesting which is why I did two of them.
[So, basically, he enjoyed research and writing papers, but coursework was a means to an end more than anything else.]
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Date: 2017-12-30 11:57 pm (UTC)I can't imagine that.
[ He was never given a choice. ]
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Date: 2017-12-31 12:04 am (UTC)[Kyna is still pretty directionless, oops. Congrats on being the most together person in the room, Lance.]
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Date: 2017-12-31 12:11 am (UTC)I was just a weird kid; it's not wrong to take longer to decide, and honestly it's probably a better idea to wait anyway. More life experience and that sort of thing, and sometimes you don't even know that what you want to do exists at first.
[Some fields are a lot more obscure than others, after all.]
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Date: 2017-12-31 12:28 am (UTC)Kyna asked me once what I'd do if I weren't a soldier, and I still can't answer that.
[ Which might be a little much to admit to Lance, but it's the truth. ]
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Date: 2017-12-31 12:31 am (UTC)Now you sound like my brother.
[And as for Wash, well... To be fair, it doesn't sound like he has much of a choice where he's from, anyway.]
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