Never getting to go to uni:-(

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Okay, now I'm going to post again about the circumstances where it worked out that I never truly got to go, under the right circumstances, to uni - meaning " college " in the sense most people mean when they say " college ", meaning a four-year (in theory), residential, " regular " B.A. track or other degree place. I will use the I-know-it-as Australian phrase " uni " for that - and I will say " cc " to refer to community college, night school, any such " you can get a college education but it's not the full-fledged " uni " experience " thing.
Yes, I have said many times that I want to go to uni - but I was not, and am not, denying the scenario " Well, you have to go to cc first - THEN you can go to uni!! !! ! You just have to prove yourself)get practice - ' pay your dues ' (he said, a littlle bitterly ) - at cc first. THEN you can go to uni!! !! !! !! ! ". Remember, I was trying to go. to City College of San Francisco last year, when I still lived in SF. So you don't need to jump down my throat and tell me that (he said, a little bitterly). It's nessasary, I guess, in my situation .
But, I want to tell you about my past attempts to go to uni. And how the College-Industrial Complex spat in my face - or shat on me - over & over .

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

University really isn’t that great. You didn’t miss much. That’s my thought, anyway.

I didn't go to "traditional" college, either.

Did I crave it? Maybe sort of.

I went the "adult" route. I started at 36, graduated at 45.

Most of the human beings alive on this planet (or who have ever lived!) did not "go to Uni" either. Your self pity is what has ruined your life, not your missed chance at 4 year privilege. I know it's useless to tell an aspie to stop ruminating, but I had to say it just this once.

...Well, Ariel, most of the people who ever lived died young, of diseases that can be cured now. Should I give myself the Black Plague, in solidarity with them? Interesting to hear this left-wing guilt talk hers - " privilege ".
As for what ruined my life, if it was, try the things I mention at the end of my signature .

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

I went to traditional college and still didn't have the traditional college experience.

Don't mean to be a jerk, but this subject has already been covered several times in several threads that are several pages long.

This one will be like all the others where you will hear stuff you don't like and then lash out and they lash back. It will go on that way for several pages until it's locked after the mods have issued warnings.

Get out your popcorn folks.

“Going to college,” and living in a dorm, is a sort of “rite of passage” for middle-class and rich kids. It’s sort of a transition between childhood and adulthood.

ASS-P wanted (and still wants) to experience the camaraderie with other smart folk, and the relative lack of adult responsibilities, and maybe the partying, which are all parr and parcel of the “college experience.”

Excellent, Ezra. So you’re going to graduate high school on time.

Good for you, sir!

You would enjoy the political science courses.

I find it doesn’t do any good to lament about “what could have happened if I did so and so.”