Ask HN: How important is high school really? I'm a sophomore right now and lately I just feel like school is completely irrelevant to anything I will do in the future, besides the credentials I will have I guess. With all the talk about Khan Academy and education recently I felt the need to post this. Also to clarify I don't want to claim that school isn't important for everyone, but in my case 95% of the material I can confidently say isn't. So I guess my question is how much should I be allotting my time to personal projects, and should I feel bad if my grades suffer because of it? (By suffering I mean having about a 90% GPA as opposed to a higher one if I really applied myself. I'm not going to do poorly, I'm just not going to be exceptional academically.) I have a really hard time grasping that grades != intelligence, so it does bother me when they are lower. Anyway, you guys have more life experience than I do, so please convince me to do my homework. |