{"id":192,"date":"2006-03-15T21:14:57","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T04:14:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-15T21:20:41","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T21:20:41","slug":"habitual_college_dropout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2006\/habitual_college_dropout\/","title":{"rendered":"Habitual College Dropout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juiz-outdated-message jodpm-top\">Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div><p>I should mention this.  I withdrew from the university this week and ended my semester.  Those who know me, affectionately refer to this move as &#8220;dropping out of school,&#8221; and we&#8217;ve all seen me do it before.  To my credit, however, I always go back.  Also to my credit, I have a 4.0 GPA from all six colleges I&#8217;ve attended (yes, SIX).  I just haven&#8217;t attended for more than two semesters in a row without getting distracted and doing something else.  Going to China, starting a nonprofit, starting a business&#8230;  I guess you could say I put my life first.  So what happened this time?  I got a job.  No, not a real job.  Sarah doesn&#8217;t do crazy-stable things like THAT.  No, I got contract work at a design firm in downtown San Francisco.  My work is to take beautiful, professional designs and turn them into website-ready HTML templates.  In other words, I get to arm wrestle with graphic designers over font size and try to trick multiple browsers into displaying a website in exactly the same way.  It&#8217;s fulltime, it&#8217;s fun, it&#8217;s challenging, it uses my skills, it pays at industry standards (read: enough to support me for the next semester or two of school), and it will probably end mid-May.  So to all the little kiddies out there looking for a role model&#8230; Yes, it&#8217;s okay to drop out of school.Now go read your HTML primers like good citizens of the Information Age.p.s. Don&#8217;t worry.  As my governor so famously used to say, &#8220;I&#8217;LL BE BACK!&#8221;  (Trust me, we&#8217;ve been through this before.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, this content is 20 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.I should mention this. I withdrew from the university this week and ended my semester. Those who know me, affectionately refer to this move as &#8220;dropping out of school,&#8221; and we&#8217;ve all seen me do it before. To my credit, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}