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Hey comrades, I'm thinking about getting a degree. About 7-8 months ago I made a post asking about the process of obtaining citizenship in China and I was met with the expected response that I should continue my education if I wished to stay there long-term. Initially I dismissed the advice and just put away the idea of living in China long-term, but in the past few months I think I've come around to continuing my education.

This is a big deal for me, I dropped out of highschool when I was 18 and just two years from graduation because the school I was going to would shut down and I couldn't stomach starting over again at a new school in the middle of the George Floyd Riots and the COVID-19 Pandemic. I eventually tried to finish my highschool diploma but when the school went under a bunch of my credits just vanished into thin air and I was looking at another 3½ years of highschool so I gave up again.

Now I'm 23 and with the support of my comrades on the commune I am finally feeling confident about picking up my schooling again, I'm planning on biting the bullet on the GED (which I should have done in the first place instead of going for the highschool diploma) and applying for college.

I'm looking at mycology, I've had an interest in it since I was 18 and I love microscopic organisms. Fungi are extremely interesting to me and I'd love to learn more about them in ways that are not from the pervasive pop-science or spiritual/psychedelic angles that dominate in the West.

I just wanted to share this with others, I'm excited and I've already started crawling through my old textbooks!

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[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

when the school went under

My God what a country

[–] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Yeah the school's grants were embezzled by some dude and then they didn't meet the minimum amount of students so they were shut down. It was a pretty awesome school besides that, I enjoyed learning there.

[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 6 months ago

Going to China and studying mushrooms sounds awesome! Good luck.

[–] Tarkov_Survivor@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 6 months ago

That's great news comrade.

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 6 months ago
[–] Mehrtelb@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 6 months ago

If you decide to go through with it, know that we're with you every step of the way if you want our help comrade!

[–] D61@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago

Get good, be one with the shrooms...

[–] Ocommie63@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 6 months ago

Thats cool my mom actually does stuff with fungi