Alt Q: I got bored of academia
After year 9/3rd Year, I found myself bored with school as a whole, and stopped caring. My grades dropped sharply, I went from being a straight A student, to getting Bs. I never spent more than a night on any of my coursework, and didn't even bother to do it for maths.

This apathy continued into 6th form, where I left with 1 A level, and a couple of extra Qualifications.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 11:01, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I did that too
at 6th form I decided I was bored of education so I stopped and got a job instead.

I kind of regret not going to uni but I didn't know what I wanted to study until a couple of years ago so it would have been a waste of time and money anyway.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 11:17, Reply)

I would have done a Computing/Networking course, because it was the right thing to do.
If I had a choice of anything, I'd have studied 19th-20th Century History.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 11:32, Reply)

I wanted to go to drama school
but the school I was at was obsessed with 'proper universities' and didn't want to help me. Plus you have to be able to sing to get into drama school which I think is unfair.

Then I thought I would like law so I studied that for 2 years. I did not like law.

So now I'm doing mincy interior design which I'm very happy with.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 11:42, Reply)

My high school was determined for at least 10 of us to go to Oxbridge
4 did in the end, one of whom was excluded from the Oxbridge meetings, as they didn't think she would ever get in. Last I heard, she was doing her masters there.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 11:53, Reply)