Fare Well, ye Irish

Overheal

Well after a few mitigating issues over the last year (and a half) - Stepmom dying, father moving back to the US, and me having a near miss with the Gardai and failing 3 out of 6 of my 2nd year college classes, as well as a weak American dollar - I won't be coming back to Ireland this time.

Sucks.

Anyway my Dad no longer feels it wise to invest in me living here because of the risks, of cost, accomodation, living alone and immigration, etc. but I can't blame him for that, especially when my grades reflect I'm struggling.

So I'll be living with him in South Carlolina and at the very least taking a year out to get a driver's license, hold a job and work on saving enough money for College: The Revenge. Which suffice to say will not be held in Ireland when it happens.

When I do come back it will be to help clean up and sell our home in Clare and say farewells to my teenage chums: but we have no timeline for when that will happen.

Just a vent post

Zzippy

Not a PI. Damn Yanks!

Jus' kidding, best of luck over there whatever you turn your hand to...

Overheal

It is a PI! jerk

you'd be upset too if you thought you had just been told to throw away 2 years of college for naught. 3 if you count 6th year.

Nevyn

Overheal calling someone a jerk is personal abuse and you can be baned for that if you have an issue with a post use the report post function.

Is there any way you can transfer the credits for the modules you have done to some where in the usa ?

MIN2511

Hey dude, sorry to hear this.... You must be disappointed

Argh well do lurk around though

Overheal

No afaik they are completely seperate accrediting bodies, meaning theres no system in place to equate the amount of work I have done to the credit system over here, its not like having a 2 year diploma - those are more transferable. Unfortunately the course I was in was a 4 year degree or nothing.

Ah sure MIN boards wouldn't be rid of me that easily. Its a definite kick in the gee but I'll eat my own words from other PI's and try and keep my head high.

chickenhawk

Good luck with whatever you do.

Out of interest where in south Carolina are you going to live? Anywhere near Savannah or St simmons/Mac Kinnon Island?

Jack Sheehan

See you man.

Overheal

thanks jack

chicken i think its called summerville - its about 12 miles from the charleston airport: my dad is one of the site supervisors at the nearby boeing plant working on the Dreamliner fuselages. Dont know any of the locations you mentioned there

KamiKazi

All the best dude, only met you once or twice but you seem like a cool guy

Good luck.

Wibbs

Good luck with it mate. It seems like a good plan longterm if things aren't working out here. In any case the interweb really does make boston the next parish.

Black_Knight

So long Overheal.

Will you still grace us with your presence here on boards.ie?

watna

Best of luck overheal. I know you've had a hard time or two and I think you've been very positive through it all.

Best of luck in America and definitely go back to college if you can!

Kinetic^

Been to South Carolina twice, Spartanburg and Greenville in particular are lovely places......I envy you......wanna swap places?

Dizzyblonde

Good luck Overheal

MJOR

Good Luck!!! At least you'll be dodging the bad irish weather!

dr.bollocko

That really really really sucks man.
You know AFAIK, if you do a distance learning course with the open university or some such while you are looking for that job and learning to drive, etc. you will get creditted with points for the two years that you did.
Its not full time college but it is a stepping stone at least.

Kintarō Hattori

Sorry to hear you're leaving us man. I've enjoyed your contributions here and your humour. Hopefully you'll continue to post on boards and I hope that things pick up for you personally.

RedXIV

AH MAN!!!

And i was looking forward to training with ya properly next year once i discovered you were as bad a boardsie (if not worse ) as i was!

Wish ya all the best anyway mate and feel free to pop back and visit!

All the best

Red

OK-Cancel-Apply

Ah sure at least you'll probably be heading into Obamania :P Maybe drop by the Irish TF2 servers once in a while eh?

Overheal

dr.bollocko wrote: »

That really really really sucks man.
You know AFAIK, if you do a distance learning course with the open university or some such while you are looking for that job and learning to drive, etc. you will get creditted with points for the two years that you did.
Its not full time college but it is a stepping stone at least.

That'd be something to look into but since im not even flying back to repeat the 3 exams I need I dont see how likely that is. in any case I've robbed all the course materials I still have access to (suck it blackboard!) so with or without a piece of paper ive learned stuff.

RedXIV wrote: »

AH MAN!!!

And i was looking forward to training with ya properly next year once i discovered you were as bad a boardsie (if not worse ) as i was!

Wish ya all the best anyway mate and feel free to pop back and visit!

All the best

Red

Sorry about that red. Im terrible at TKD anyway I bruise easily

OK-Cancel-Apply wrote: »

Ah sure at least you'll probably be heading into Obamania :P Maybe drop by the Irish TF2 servers once in a while eh?

With a swanky 15mbit connection, I think that might be do-able... whenever the Irish servers speed up enough for me to pick them up I think the ping back to yours is still 500ms or something stupid - not playable anyway. but leave me a profile comment with the IP address anyway.

Watna wrote:

Best of luck overheal. I know you've had a hard time or two and I think you've been very positive through it all.

Best of luck in America and definitely go back to college if you can!

Thanks Watna thats nice to hear theres an interesting university in florida called Full Sail that promises a 4 year degree (same degree i was at) in 2 years: its expensive as hell and the hours are intense but thats what I'll be aiming for, and their credentials seem hawt: http://www.fullsail.com

Black_Knight wrote:

Will you still grace us with your presence here on boards.ie?

I wouldn't say grace so much as plague infest and overwhelm, but yes.

edit: I thanked you all but theres limits

Marksie

Sorry to hear that .

Boards is only a click away though so dont l;eave us altogether.

You dont know what teh future brings... once you ahve got where you want to be, you do have the optionof returning

But all the best

Loopy

Best of luck with it, we never know whats around the corner - it may turn out to be a really good move:)