/jp/ - Otaku Culture

NEET life is best life.

Haven't dropped out yet. Yet.

Graduating in a week

haven't applied anywhere yet

I wish I could stay in the university system forever, actually.
It's not *actual* work, but I still get paid for teaching dumbshits about the basics of Engineering.

just stopped goin last fall, four F's after 2 years of good semesters before that...

I plan on going back this coming fall though so I can keep up my lazy lifestyle

I was in law school for a year then dropped it and now I'm doing psychology, hopefully I won't drop it after the first semester.

>>5028048
So tutors really do see their tutees like that, huh?

Highschool dropout here
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>>5028057
Lucky you. Over here you would have to leave the country to study.

>>5028077
don't dispare anon
some of us have just different capacities of taking it easy

>>5028077
You're not alone man.
But I got my GED.
Too bad I haven't done anything with it

>>5028057
ARE YOU ME?!

GED more like Grade Eight Diploma

>>5028084
I have no capacity for stress
I have a less than perfect attention span
I cant work on something unless I'm interested in it, or see it as important

I failed grade 10 twice

>>5028108

So you're 12 years old and what is this?

>>5028108
yeah, that's exactly my problem too

College dropout twice, or was it three times... Maybe even four times. I really can't remember. My parents sign me up for classes and tell me to go.

I dropped out because of a required speech class. I just can't talk in front of people.

>>5028142
Same here

>>5028142

You're telling me that you never had to speak in any of your other classes?

>>5028151
You aren't American, are you?

>>5028142
I was dreading mine. Good thing I dropped out before it came up.

>>5028157

I am. We had to do several speeches in Spanish. We had to at least talk regularly in this weird "troll as many people as you can" class... I think it was Logic and Arguments.

So, what are the advantages of GED < College Drop-Out?

>>5028169

A lot of jobs require at least a GED. You need one if you ever want to become a supervisor. Being a dropout doesn't really amount to anything more, except that you might be promoted over someone who never even tried.

So yeah, it only matters if you want to make a career out of food service.

>>5028157
I think it varies a lot depending on what kind of major you are. Liberal arts majors tend to have a lot more discussion classes, while I have some Engi/premed friends who have nothing but lecture courses, at least at my Uni (amerikkkan)

>>5028169
If you do it when you're young, you have a few years to go before your peers have graduated, and that leaves you a lot of free time before you're 'too old' for college.

Are there any cons?

>>5028177
What about college debts?

>>5028185
They suck? I for one am not sure what you're asking here.

>>5028178

My engineering college specifically has a required speech class for engineers, because they want to annoy all the social retards who go into the field thinking they don't have to communicate with anyone.

Although I'm a normalfag, I had one of the shittiest speeches in that class. Hikkis can conjure enough courage to go through just one speech in their lives.

>>5028205
Well, I mean, does it applies to drop-outs?
People with GEDs don't have to bother with it, right?

>>5028206
That's kind of what I'm thinking. If someone really can't muster the courage to spend 10 minutes reciting something to save themselves all the time they spent up to that point, I have to wonder how they managed to even go to class every day.

>>5028212
Oh, no, I suppose not. That's a part of going to college, and it's the main reason why I wouldn't drop out. All the bad parts and virtually none of the good.

Studying abroad in Japan in August for a year, should be fun. I still have 2.5 years to figure out what a Linguistics/Japanese dual major is for.

High school dropout here. Have never attended college. You're all small time.

>>5028242
I thank God/Allah/YHWH/The Gods/Kanako for that!

Being small time never felt so good.

>>5028234

Do you have a grant/scholarship, or just paying out the ass for a study abroad program?

>>5028279
I get 11 grand a year for college from my parents being bums, and then I am getting 80k yen a month from this:

http://www.jasso.go.jp/study_j/scholarships_e.html

>>5028282
Oops, I meant this one:
http://www.jasso.go.jp/scholarship/short_term_e.html

Being poor for most of my childhood pays off!

Go back to school and make something of yourself.
Or at the very least, get a job.

NEET is the worst.

>>5028242
same here, never had a job either

Feels good knowing that if I want to work I can just go to my family's small business(screen printing).

>>5028242

I fucking hate speeches/discussions. I don't know what I'm talking about. Nobody in college does. Don't make us spend 5-whatever minutes about something we don't know shit about. I don't want to watch/hear some sideways-cap wearing faggot talk about global warming while throwing in a couple Bush jokes.

That said, you just have to take the bullshit and move on. Don't worry so much, everybody sounds just as stupid as you. It's not like you'll ever see any of them again, anyway.

High school drop-out. Never had a job. I live with my mom.

...but we own an apartment complex, so it's not as pathetic as it sounds.

>>5028308
I'd say you should stop being a leech on your parents but that would be hypocritical of me, as I leech off the state.

>>5028312
Joke's on you, Anon, my dad ditched us when I was little!
I'm only a leech on my mom

>>5028298
>It's not like you'll ever see any of them again

Not always the truth.

When I moved to another city, I keep running into people I met in college and highschool.

>>5028298

>It's not like you'll ever see any of them again, anyway.

Isn't that what they say about high school? So it goes for college now too?

>>5028308
Are you nice to the lolis? Do they wave at you when they see you?

>>5028294
Doesn't sound like you will be of any use and will doom the business.

>>5028337
There are no lolis
Or maybe there are, I really wouldn't know.

>>5028350
If I was the son of an apartment owner, I'd know all of the residents, especially the lolis.

>>5028358
Don't go outside, etc.

>>5028358

This sounds like it could be a good premise for a VN.....

Finishing my 3rd year in College which had to have been the worst year I have ever had, fucking sucks... Just about a year left.

>>5028328
>>5028333

I guess it might be different if you go to a small college. But for large universities like mine, I don't know the names of anybody in any of my classes in any of the four years I've attended.

Primary school is different, as you are around those people for 13 years assuming you don't switch schools.

I may as well be a dropout, I'm almost done with my worthless Biology major. I say worthless because I don't see myself getting into grad/med school even though I'll undoubtedly graduate.

If it weren't for the fact that the government is paying for all of this through scholarships I would've dropped out a long time ago.

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>>5028366
What the fuck is wrong with you?

>>5028391
I go to UF (sixth largest US by population) and I know pretty much everyone in most of my classes.

But I am a Liberal arts major, so I think you're probably right for other majors.

>>5028407
Man, I'm not the landlord. I don't have to go out.
I just squat in an empty apartment.

>>5028391
>I don't know the names of anybody in any of my classes in any of the four years I've attended.

Oh god, my first year of college is almost over and I don't know anyone either.

>>5028412
FSU here.

You're a faggot. UF is terrible.

>>5028391

There was only one person I talked to for more than a single semester when I was in college. bad economy + no contacts + no experience = why the fuck did I slog through something I hated for three and a half years

Dropped out to be a spess muhreen

>>5028458

say hi to my cousin for me, he's cool and drinks all the beers and shit, you can't miss him

>>5028458
:((((((((((((((

I dropped out last year, I'm thinking of joining the navy now.

>>5028477
Join the marines, its where all the cool kids are at.

>>5028469
sure thing broseph

>>5028477
Why, exactly?

I've always wondered what presses /jp/-ers into military positions? I don't think I'd be able to stand it at all.

I'm 11 days from graduating from USC.
In 4 months, I'll be teaching English in grorious Nippon.
Suck on that, NEETs.

>>5028498

The standards for being recruited are so low and there's no competing for a position

>>5028469
I live in an off campus dorm and don't even know the guy who lives next to me, much less your cousin.

You also sound a bit too normalfag for /jp/. Get out before I call the meido and have her forcibly remove you.

>>5028498
I guess it's desire for someone to follow, maybe?

I think if for whatever reason I had no money and was stuck in college debt and dropped, the military would be my first option. I don't trust myself to be able to make it on my own, starting from nothing but my high school education, failed college degree, and my own wits.

>>5028502
Can you speak japanese?

>>5028502
>teaching

Jokes on you, dumbass.

Enjoy the shitty hours and fingers jammed up your ass.

>>5028516
>dropped
dropped out, I mean, though that probably wasn't confusing

>>5028516
>>5028506
Maybe I've just been brainwashed by the general media, but I can't help but view military training as horrendous physical labor with some guy yelling at you the whole time.

Not to mention being surrounded by macho-type bro faggots all the time. But, that's just what comes to my mind. It's not really like that, right?

>>5028526
i would do anything to have japanese fingers shoved up my asshole in the manner of lord Az

Oh god. In my only semester of community college half of the teachers there also worked at the high school, treated us like we were still in high school, and 99% of the students acted like they were still in high school. Is it normal for everyone to take turns reading a story out of the book in college classes? Is it normal for someone to be even paler and nerdier than me and have his life become a class discussion after he breaks down crying? I couldn't drop out fast enough.

>>5028498
I want to get into the nuclear officer program thing, and the navy seems like a better bet than the army or marines, even the lowest sailor still gets warm meals every day and a dry place to sleep and those boats don't seem to sink very often.

>>5028533
Well, there is free time, from what I understand. But I think that there will definitely be a lot of macho types and there will definitely be a lot of yelling. In my view, that's better than having no foreseeable future whatsoever. Some might disagree.

>>5028533

Being shocked out of soft living isn't as bad as it seems

>>5028542
Community college is not college. Community college is a place for classes that you can take to give you a leg up into real college.

>>5028547
http://punynari.wordpress.com/
The true life of a seaman.

Just posting to say I finished college and still ended up as a NEET. It's torture for me, since I'm very outgoing. But none of the local places will higher me. Hell, the only way I managed to get a job was to go back to the community college I started at and go on work study.

>>5028525
もうちろんさ。４年間ぐらい勉強していたからなぁ。
>>5028526
You took Gaijin Smash a little too literally. Your hours will only really suck if you're in an Eikaiwa; I'm not. The pay is good, and I'll be set far from Tokyo, thank God.

>>5028553
>>5028550
I guess if you could stand people like that, you can make it in the military.

Personally, I wouldn't last 10 minutes.

>>5028554
College is not university. College is a place for classes that you can take to give you a leg up into real university.

>>5028568
Being yelled at never really bothered me, either I fucked something up and I deserved it or the guy is an asshole and it shouldn't bother me, either way it never really got under my skin.

>>5028573
sorry, college and Uni are synonymous in my lexicon. I go to a University, in any case.

>>5028567
>Gaijin Smash
You mean "I am a Japanese School Teacher", right? "Gaijin Smash" was what the blog was renamed to well after he stopped teaching.

>>5028602

Oh is he still in Japan then? I stopped reading that site years ago.

>>5028585
The high school down the road from my own was a college. I've never even seen a tertiary education provider that called themselves one.

>>5028602
Yes. Gaijin Smash is just briefer to type than both Outpost Nine and "I am a Japanese School Teacher," and everyone knows to whom/what I am referring.

>>5028613
Yeah, though he only posts maybe once every couple of months now. Busy with getting married and appearing on TV (because he's big and black, not because of blog).

>>5028634
Oh? Is there a picture of the guy?

>>5028563
>>But none of the local places will higher me.
>>higher me
>>higher

Well now we know why.

>>5028691
I noticed that as well, but I didn't say anything because I am not an asshole, asshole.

Nice double quotes by the way.

I've been NEET for around a year now. Dropped out last year because I couldn't figure out what to do. I'm enlisted in the Navy and I've got training camp in a few months.

Not gonna lie, I'm a high school graduate but due to not being very smart, I'll probably never go to college.

It's genuinely got me want to kill myself, because my whole life my parents had these high expectations that I'd be, with the exception of my mother, the first in the (poor) family to go to college. They've offered to pay for it, but I barely graduated High School with cheating, and I would almost certainly fail in college.

I am completely failing my parents' expectations they've had for me since I was born. I WANT to go and learn Psychology and Law or some shit like that, but my brain is turning against me.

/blog

skipped my entire second semester, failed everything

looking at military / tech school / community college options

I'm on month 5 of NEET living, taking anti-depressants

feels empty man

>>5028737
>I'm on month 5 of NEET living, taking anti-depressants
Do they help at all?

>>5028727
I feel stupid too. I've never scored higher than a D in any math class I took since high school. I don't know if I'm just dumb or if it's because I'm too lazy to study.

>>5028758

I don't want to die anymore, but I'm still pretty indifferent about living. I've been taking them for a month or so.

>>5028776
Definitely because you're dumb, since studying for math classes is like practicing inhaling and exhaling for breathing.
Not even babies do it.

>>5028727
The dumb people and the smart people both get fucked over by university. The dumb ones don't understand, and the smart ones end up stressing out because they don't understand instantly and have no idea how to study.

It's the average ones that make it through easily.

>>5028795
Fucking inverse Laplace transforms. There's no algorithm for it, you just have keep practicing them until you get an eye for which bits to pull out.

>>5028835
Those were easy for me. Maybe you just don't have a mind for math.

>>5028851
We can't all be autistic.

>>5028860
You're right, someone needs to be future gas station attendants.

I'm not doing all that great in college as of late.

I've never failed a class or anything, but... ever since my senior year of high school began, it seems like my life went to the gutter. I'm a junior going-on senior in college now (won't be graduating for another year or so at least; Comp. Sci. program at my university is young and stuff) and... I really need to get in gear.

But reading this thread, I'm motivated.

I'll do good in college for you guys. I'll show them that someone who browses /jp/ can succeed.

For my nakama in /jp/!

How hard is calc really? I managed to pass everything up to it without any studying but it's sort of intimidating so I've been reluctant to take it.

>>5028927
Keep it. Giving up is downright damning yourself to a series of failures.

>>5028928
Calculus really is not hard; it's remembering algebra.

It's always the freakin' algebra.

Brush up on algebra before taking it, and it should come easier to you.

>>5028935
Did you mean to type "Keep it up"?

>>5028951
Yes I.

>>5028927
がんばって！

>>5028554
Not true. There are many types of classes that are offered only in community college that aren't usually offered in universities. Community colleges offer classes that give you a specialized trade skill. The only reason I myself go to community college is because all I want to do is be a engineer draftsman (as opposed to a full blown master engineer), and the majority of draftsman jobs only require an associates degree and still pay well.

i really want to drop out

>>5028928
Differentiation is easy in all its many guises. It's got a few rules, and once you remember those rules you can tackle any differentiation problem the world may throw at you.

Integration, however, is a bitch. There are no real rules for it just "try all these things until one works".

>>5028928

easy

go here: http://www.khanacademy.org/
play a couple videos
get a head start

College drop out, ended up getting a job and moving out of my parents basement. What now?

>>5029077
What kind of job do you have?

>>5029053
...or you could, y'know, actually remember how to differentiate and see the same patterns in the thing you're integrating.

>>5029085
Grocery store and a convenience store.
LIVING THE GOOD LIFE FELLOWS.

I honestly don't mind it.

I'll be working on my musical career.

>>5029118
What do you plan to do after you fail?

>>5029229

The same thing we do every night, Pinky.

neet for now. i love it so far.

Being a NEET is fun until you look up from your guard post outside the grocery store and realize that it's been way too fucking long to change anything.

>>5029320
>NEET
>Job

What?

>>5029320
Being employed is not NEET.

>>5029334
>>5029341
He didn't say anything about working. Maybe he leeches electricity and WiFi from the store and his guard post is his box in the backlot.

>Despite world wide popularity, online gaming has been reported as another detrimental factor that launches Hikikomori. In particular, it manifests itself within the online "phenomenon" that is the World of War Craft (WOW). A recent Meta-Analysis on time spent playing the game found that an average of 23.9 hours per day was spent playing the game by hikkikomorians (a term used to describe the race of hikkimori people).

I'm getting paid to go to college, so I don't really have a reason not to go, even moreso since I can't leech off my parents.

I don't really know what I'm doing though, I'm just learning random shit that I don't know what to do with. I'm not even learning something I'm entirely interested in (Electrical Engineering), since I figured if I'm really interested in something, I'll just learn the basics in my own time. Most notably, art. I can't really imagine going to a big school for it, considering how casually I take it.

I just imagine myself being an overqualified worker in a grocery store or something, which doesn't really seem very bad at all, especially if I can get in those small, local shops.

>>5029440
May I ask where you live?

>>5029458
United States of America.

Fake mental illness and live off disability benefits for the rest of my life.

Only tricky part is finding one that's bad enough to realistically stop me getting a job, but not so bad that I get put in a mental home.

>>5029361
No, the guy regularly comes into hikki/NEET threads and claims to be both, despite leaving the house and having a job.

>>5029539
The ones serious enough for you to get　Lifelong benefits are too serious to be faked.

>>5029539
Depends what country you're in.

Severe depression is enough to get you wellfare in some places, and that's easy as fuck to fake.

>>5029574
I don't think many anons have to fake a depression in the first place.

I have a 2.6 GPA. it got low like that because I'm a dumbshit who failed Calculus II twice (though I'm well on my way to passing it this sem).

However, what gets me really down right now is that I have basically fucked around in community college for well over 5 years, since I'm a pathetic loser with no ambition, that I now have accumulated over 90+ units. This means that if I ever want my GPA to get up to 3.0, it would be like climbing Mt. Everest.

I want to transfer to a university (fuck, any will do) in a year just so I can finish my Major, but everytime I think about how hard it would be to improve my GPA, I just get fucking depressed.

I saw my friends transfer to decent universities like Berkley, UC Davis, and even MIT, and have graduated already.

Looking at their facebook profiles (mind you, mine has zero friends at all, since I just made it so I can snoop at the people I knew in the past), makes me feel like I'm getting left behind.

Getting left behind is the worst feeling of all, guys, I tell you what.

I can't drop out.

The moment I do, I have to pay back all of my student loans in one months time.

Shit sucks.

>>5030454
>Getting left behind is the worst feeling of all, guys, I tell you what.
I just see it as taking it easy.