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Published: 2011-01-19 17:50:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 3130; Favourites: 43; Downloads: 66
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Proud graduate of 2010!
Anyways, I made this stamp for all those who did graduate and are proud, and also to send a message. Its so sad today to see so many either refusing to go to college (for lazy reasons) or dropping out. The rate of college graduates is so low, and after doing some study, its actually crippling our economy.
Go to college. It might waste your time at point (or many) during those 4 years, it might be insanely expensive (you do realize they have grants and stuff that can help right?), but giving up 4 years of your life to ensure you have MANY good years to come is WORTH it! Better opportunities, jobs, pay rates, etc.
And don't worry about the debt if you need it, once you graduate, the jobs available for college graduates pay VERY well and you'll have an easier time landing a solid job that will pay your debt off in a few years. Then you can live comfortably for the rest of your life! It just ensures you a nice solid future.
I know I'm a stay at home mom right now, and I'm not using my degree at this point in my life. My husband works and provides for our family, but what would happen if something happened to him? I have my degree to get a good job so that we can survive. And I plan on working later in life, but that's the best part about a B.S., they don't expire!
I can understand if you don't know what to do with your life, OR your passion doesn't require a college education. That's fine, but we are the generation that ensures our countries future (and the worlds). Getting as much education as we can now is SO important.
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I just graduated today - I'm glad that this stamp exists so that I can share my joy!
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Yay! Congratulations!
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I graduated way back in '06... I'm an OLD man. xD
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Grats on graduating!
I dropped out of ITT Tech after a year because not even grants were able to put a dent in that bill. The crappy teaching and putting me into Networking instead of Programming didn't help either. But I start at a local college within a few weeks for the degree I really wanted and I have a grant taking care of the full thing! Yay!
My career doesn't require a college education, but the shiny piece of paper will make it much easier getting a job in my field and it'll lay the groundwork I need for other certifications that'll help me out a good bit.
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Never let school interfere with education.
I appreciate the importance of education, but I also believe that formal education is much less educating than self-education. Society constantly regards credentials (particularly Ph.Ds and other doctorate degrees) as certificates of omniscience rather than what they are - pieces of paper which prove that someone had the mental endurance to sit through lectures day after day. I have two acquaintances, both of whom apply for patent applications. One is a teenage friend of mine who dropped out of high school to work on his inventions. He has a successful business and is perhaps the most dedicated person I know. The patent office forces him to spend hours proving that the invention really is his, just because of his age and social status. The other acquaintance is an ex-partner who's an MIT graduate with a Ph.D in nanotechnology. He makes money by convincing independent inventors to send their ideas to him. The inventors think their designs will be prototyped, but instead this man patents the ideas as his own. The patent office never so much as asks a question, because of his doctorate degree and social status.
I've had quite enough of society doing that.
I live up to people like:
Tadao Ando is a world-famous architect who never set foot in a formal class a day in his life. Even in Japan where the social standards are much stricter and far more trying, he proved that perserverence and self-education go further than any formal university ever could. His work is very unique and, in addition to being aesthetically pleasing, very efficient - as he designs buildings in such ways that they don't collapse as easily in earthquakes.
Michael Faraday was a chemist, electrical engineer, and independent inventor. He attended only grade school and was barely above a servant on the social ladder. By never giving up and working as hard as he could every day of his life, he gained access to laboratory equipment as the assistant of a world-renowned scientist and proved himself able. His work provided the foundation for modern conveniences such as direct current electrical power, electromagnetism and related studies, the electric motor, the dynamo, and the generator.
Thomas Edison, perhaps the most well-known inventor in history, didn't attend formal school for more than a few months. As a home-schooled student he completed only grade school. When he was twelve years old he got a job, which treated him unfairly but which he learned more from than school ever could have taught him. He was extremely successful and his company still exists today - it is called General Electric.
Charles Kettering, inventor of the automatic car starter and other electrical devices, graduated university and later said that since they had "always done it this way", he knew it must be wrong. He disproved many of what were considered to be established facts at the time and paved the way for new research on high-voltage electricity which is still researched today.
I could list more of these people, but the point is that formal education places the student in an environment where they are taught not to question, only to sit still, be quiet, and accept without a second thought what material is taught. In my experience (and I acknowledge that this may not be everyone's experience) school exists after grade eight only to teach the student to follow the rules of society. It isn't just a place of learning, but a place where they teach you that should you ever dare to step out of the barricade of social acceptance, you will be broken and mended, and broken and mended, until you never dare to step out for fear of being broken again. Failing that, you will be institutionalized.
Sadly that is what happened to Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current, radio, the electromagnetic induction motor, and much more.
I myself constantly skipped school in my preteens because I felt that they were teaching me only to never question society. I spent my time learning drafting, engineering, and doing experiments. At age twelve I started an online business and made money as a draftsman.
Now I'm a Engineer by Equivelancy (someone who is neither degreed nor licensed as an engineer, but has demonstrated proficient work experience and field skill to work as an engineer as long as a licensed engineer signs off on their work) working as a freelancer for a company that works with a multinational robotics company. Working in robotics had been a dream of mine since I was six years old and, had I stuck to the formal education system society holds in such high regard, I would not be here for at least another five years. This next statement is only my opinion, but I also believe that my self-education was a greater accomplishment - formal education is already set up by society, ready and waiting, and one must only tolerate it to gain entry to the engineering industry. Self-education requires genuine dedication, determination, and unbending perserverence.
Furthermore I am a successful inventor involved in multiple scientific studies - again, something which would have taken years had I stuck to society's formal education system. I've proven facts and done things that formal education teaches are impossible - case in point: [link] One of my personal experiments with high-power electromagnetism.
Now I realize that I am not everyone, and if most kids had the opportunity to do what I do they would take off and play videogames, but for people like Tadao Ando, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, Charles Kettering, Nikola Tesla, and others who are dedicated enough to accomplish the unlikely, I wish that society would give us a chance instead of ridiculing and condemning us. Tesla was told by his university professor that alternating current was, without a doubt, impossible. Look at the alternating current powering just your own house, even, how your computer is plugged into the wall and powered by it, and tell me what would have happened if Tesla had believed formal education to be all-powerful as society does today.
So, it's a good thing for you to appreciate your college education, I very much support and respect that... but please consider what I've said before deciding to value school itself.
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OH I agree that you can get a good education on your own. But, in this economy 90% of the good paying jobs don't care about that. All they want to see a diploma. Sucks, but its true. And yes, schools indoctrinate our future generations, but good parenting can avoid that.
But its good that you got passed all that. Kudos to you, but not everyone can have that luxury, which is why the push for a college education is the best and most secure way to land a successful job in this world.
You really didn't need to write a novel about it either. >_<
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That is the problem with the world, that companies don't care what someone can do with the knowledge they have, all those companies care about is that the person has a credential. Since when did those pieces of paper become certificates of omniscience?
Maybe not everyone has the luxury, but I think that if most people had the determination to keep fighting for it, almost anyone could find their own path as I have...
Heh, maybe I didn't need to make my comment so long, but I make it a point to back up my opinions with multiple examples... unlike politicians
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I do agree, it is just a piece of paper, but the job market won't conform to just anyone. They need that security that you know your stuff and worked for it. I know people who refused to go to college and still have no future outlined, even though they have amazing talents in many areas. For example, I have a friend who can make websites and code like he DID graduate from college. He knows all the language, has all the right tools, but nobody will hire him, even with proof that he CAN do the job they are hiring for. Whereas, my husband drudged through 6 years of college as a computer science major, and now that he's graduated he landed a very successful job as an engineer. Course, how easy you get hired also depends on the field you go in, and he chose computer science, which is among the top paid degrees in the country.
So, is it fair that the piece of paper got my husband in, and my other friend has no job and no future, even though they have the same level of skill? No, its not fair, but sadly, that's the way this world works.
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True, I agree with what you said and know what it's like. I decided when I was eight years old that I would never go to college, and by the time I was twelve I started my own business, thinking I could finish my equivelant work experience and graduate high school at the same time to avoid college. And what happened? I nearly got in trouble for being a child laborer. Twice. :/ The world works in strange ways sometimes, and I find it appalling that anybody, in any country, has the arrogance to call their system "freedom" or "justice" without at least declaring that it needs some improvement!
By the way, is that Dr. House in your icon?
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House is awesome! 
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Cool
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now thats a worthwhile stamp to be worthy of, congrats!
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I'm a senior MSE, huzzah.
Also: only 23% of undergrads at 4 year institutions graduate in 4 years or less
And I'm kind of glad I'm putting myself through, no need to pay back anyone.
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Yeah, graduation across the country is becoming more scarce, I'm so glad I beat the odds!
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Yeah, this is my fifth year, second year I've been screwed over.
But I figured this way I can make my title sound waaaay more...something.
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Congrats! c: I can't wait until I graduate. I'm at a community college and it should've taken me 2 years, but it's probably going to be longer, but hey, as long as I graduate, I'm happy. 8D
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Congratulations! It's a great achievement! What course did you graduate in?
6 months to go for me, then I'm free! Studying part time is the absolute pits
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I actually graduated in music. XD I was doing music education, but I switched to regular music.
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Proud as I am to be a college grad, the whole "college gets you better jobs" thing only works if you picked the right major and/or had people who got you connections to start you in a field right out. :\ I found that out the hard way. Bachelor's degree in anthropology/psychology and I work customer service at a 3rd-rate call center. Still wouldn't trade the experience for anything though. I learned as much outside the classroom as in it, found out who I really am, and met someone I love.
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Very nice. I'll be able to use this in about two months. Glee!
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Awesome Stamp. I will fav. this in 4 years. lol
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I'm happy to be a college graduate, but it's put me in debt and the job I have pays less than the one my friend has (who never went past HS and is making excellent money working in a courthouse). 
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Sometimes that happens, but its better safe then sorry. Hope things turn around for ya.
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Thanks. 
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I'm a broke college graduate, but still proud to actually be one.
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...I hope to add this stamp to my collection in the semi-near future
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Congratulations on graduating :] This will hopefully be me in a couple of years with an associates in veterinary technology :] Not the best paying field in the world, especially compared to what human nurses get (we're the animal equivalent after all), but it's what I'll be the happiest doing. I think certain college degrees don't help though. For example, there's a legit clown college in Florida somewhere. I'm going to assume that people graduating there don't have much of a job outlook XD
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Bah. I'm not even in college yet D:
College costs so muchhhh.
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Not unless you go to a community college, then not so much.
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Well, then you don't get a four-year degree...
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True, but it's better than doing all four in a university. Two in a community college and two in a university.
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That option is still super expensive though, even if it's relatively cheaper.
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I want to get college done with, but I don't really have any money at the moment, plus I'm moving. Arg!
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Congrats!
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How about "Proud College Graduate-To-Be?" That's why I am
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You can make that one, since it doesn't apply to me.
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I'm a proud college graduate, however, unfortunately after I graduated, I realized what I wanted to do doesn't take a college education! lol
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