2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: None of these things matter, because I'm with Hillary. I'm with her. [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)I never finished 10th grade as I needed to go to work to earn a living a bit younger than is usual (long story not relevant).
I did attend a couple excellent schools, both hard to get into previous to that and maintained a high honor roll status, but after about 3/4s of tenth grade was finished, I stopped going to school and started working. I took the GED of course (an extremely easy test at the time, do not now about it's modern equivalent).
Other than that I spent only one semester in Community College before needing to go back to work again for money, but I will say that the 4.0 I received during that semester gave me the confidence to attempt the near Quixotic task of self education, I have spent the rest of my life studying various topics (not full time but as consistently as time has allowed), yet have no papers or degrees to show for it, but I do feel very happy when I get feedback such as yours.
It makes me feel as if my self education bore some fruit, so thank you very sincerely for saying what you did!