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I’ve been helping my kids study just using the basics of what worked for me through college, passing the CPA exams, CIA, CISA, etc over the years

My oldest daughter just called me to tell me she scored 5’s on both reading and math for her end of grade testing, super proud of her.

All I did was print out the released questions / mock tests, focused on what she got wrong (about half the questions), walked through how to solve them a few at a day, nothing major.

Just tossing it out there to pass on the studying habits and other things you learned. It’s been rewarding for me to share those things with my kids and give them a leg up where I can. They are going to have tests in school and almost all professions have some kinda testing requirements along the way never mind if you just want to learn something new for a hobby or anything.

Sounds pretty dumb and like it would be common sense but really I didn’t think about it day to day and it just hit me that I should be doing more for my kids overall and help them in ways my parents couldn’t help me.

But yeah shit I’ve always worked on passing on everything I know like how to build a PC, how to do basic car maintenance and how a car basically works, all sorts of random shit but I never thought to pass on the things it took to get me where I am in my career until recently.

I think it was Golden Woods maybe but I’m not sure

A long time ago working at the airport this dude smelled like he just got done with a carpentry project and he told me what it was when I asked about it

Anyone have any idea what it might have been? Golden woods notes don’t sound quite right but maybe that was it

The University System is Fundamentally Broken in terms of teaching people to be successful… That part isn’t that unpopular of an opinion

The best Universities focus on research and bringing money in rather than teaching.

The system is funded off leveraging the future of graduates with tons of debt. Students trading away significant chunks of their future earnings for today.

A system where you pay a fuck ton of money. So much money at many places that if you spent it on a vacation you would be treated like a king. Just to be treated like an asshole student. The only person who will treat you like less than a pile of shit after spending that much is probably a Doctor, part of another fucked system.

A lot of the professional speakers they hire never graduated college and at best have “Honorary Doctorates”. A hodge podge of successful entrepreneurs, celebrities, and professional speakers.

I’m not saying it never happens but rarely is it an alumni with a success story lol

It’s like they intentionally pick people who didn’t fall for the trap of debt and were successful without going to college as one last fuck you on the way out. One last remember you chose to do this, you didn’t have to, don’t forget to pay your monthly student loan bill, good luck!