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Sauce<\/a>: 12-year old California tryhard kid graduates from community college with five associates degrees<\/span><\/p>\n It seems like every single year, people get more and more competitive about academic achievements, but to a degree where it\u2019s not actually cool anymore, and just kind of attention seeking and insufferable.\u00a0 And the internet doesn\u2019t help, as there are countless platforms for these tryhards to flex and humblebrag about the things they\u2019re accomplishing; don\u2019t get me wrong, it\u2019s great that people are flexing something useful like educations, but if they\u2019re only doing it for the sake of getting people to sing their praises then it\u2019s really no different than inventing an obnoxious viral dance or something.<\/span><\/p>\n Here in Atlanta, every year, my old neighborhood\u2019s Nextdoor feed has become this escalating pissing contest of parents sharing stories or flexing their kids\u2019 accomplishments of how many acceptances and how much scholarship dollars the local high school graduates are.\u00a0 It has literally escalated every year, and for every person who loves to proclaim their kid got into every single Ivy League school and has amassed over $1M in scholarship offers, there\u2019s two other kids who have been accepted into 20+ schools and has totaled over $2M in scholarship offers.\u00a0 And the ships sail endlessly as people resort to internet passivity to vent before someone inevitably says can\u2019t we all just get along???<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Obviously, this behavior is not exclusive to Atlanta, and throughout the years, we\u2019ve seen all sorts of tryhards who have turned educational achievements into sport itself, and all across the country there are people who are always trying to out-do and one-up everyone else with college acceptances, scholarship values, how many degrees, youngest to do something, oldest to accomplish X, etc, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n But shoutout to this 12-year out in California who managed to notch his fifth associates degree from Fullerton College, which sounds and is kind of impressive in its own right, seeing as how he\u2019s only 12.\u00a0 But then the low hanging fruit of jokes channels my inevitable becoming a high-expectations Asian dad, and wondering why his Asian parents seem to be okay with him taking a victory lap on the internet when all he\u2019s accomplished were a handful of associates degrees.<\/span><\/p>\n Not even bachelor\u2019s degrees!\u00a0 WTF?<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, regardless of the snarky shade, he\u2019s still set up perfectly to transition into actual college eventually, and I\u2019m imagining that a large part of this game is to be able to transfer the evident butt ton of credits that he\u2019s amassed from community college into an actual bachelor\u2019s program, and he\u2019ll still inevitably graduate from a real college well before he\u2019s 18.<\/span><\/p>\n But the thing is that his motivation for embarking on such a tryhard path really wasn\u2019t so much the fact that he wanted to learn faster and reach adulthood in a better place than most, as much as he heard that some 13-year old had done it, and he wanted to match or exceed them.\u00a0 So it\u2019s like, did he really, learn anything, as much as he checked off boxes and requirements for degrees, so he could beat someone else, or was he just basically trying to speed run through community college in order to have bragging rights?<\/span><\/p>\n Regardless, it\u2019s all way too tryhard, way too obnoxious, and frankly a disservice to parenthood and raising a child in my opinion.\u00a0 The boy probably has no friends and no social skills from being either taught at home by Asian parents or being surrounded by much older teens and young adults all through his college journey, and even if he is the wunderkind, when there\u2019s no more school to be had, will probably end up as a sad sack adult with a whole lot of catching up with living amongst human beings, all because he and his family were caught up with trying to better someone else instead of bettering their kid.<\/span><\/p>\n When my kids are nine-years old, I\u2019m hoping they\u2019re finishing up the third grade, and have friends and peers their own age.\u00a0 If they\u2019re smarter than the curve, we\u2019ll assess how to challenge them appropriately, but I\u2019m pretty sure sending either my kids off to community college probably isn\u2019t going to be on the table.\u00a0 Meanwhile, by then, this tryhard kid will probably be 18 with a college degree, and completely incapable of getting a job, because he will be a social skill invalid, have no ability to interview or interact with other human beings, and end up working at his parents\u2019 business whatever, stereotypical Asian one they\u2019re in.<\/span><\/p>\n When you try hard, you die hard.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sauce: 12-year old California tryhard kid graduates 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![can\u2019t we all just get along???<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nObviously, this behavior is not exclusive to Atlanta, and throughout the years, we\u2019ve seen all sorts of tryhards who have turned educational achievements into sport itself, and all across the country there are people who are always trying to out-do and one-up everyone else with college acceptances, scholarship values, how many degrees, youngest to do something, oldest to accomplish X, etc, etc.<\/span><\/p>\nBut shoutout to this 12-year out in California who managed to notch his fifth associates degree from Fullerton College, which sounds and is kind of impressive in its own right, seeing as how he\u2019s only 12.\u00a0 But then the low hanging fruit of jokes channels my inevitable becoming a high-expectations Asian dad, and wondering why his Asian parents seem to be okay with him taking a victory lap on the internet when all he\u2019s accomplished were a handful of associates degrees.<\/span><\/p>\nNot even bachelor\u2019s degrees!\u00a0 WTF?<\/span><\/p>\nOf course, regardless of the snarky shade, he\u2019s still set up perfectly to transition into actual college eventually, and I\u2019m imagining that a large part of this game is to be able to transfer the evident butt ton of credits that he\u2019s amassed from community college into an actual bachelor\u2019s program, and he\u2019ll still inevitably graduate from a real college well before he\u2019s 18.<\/span><\/p>\nBut the thing is that his motivation for embarking on such a tryhard path really wasn\u2019t so much the fact that he wanted to learn faster and reach adulthood in a better place than most, as much as he heard that some 13-year old had done it, and he wanted to match or exceed them.\u00a0 So it\u2019s like, did he really, learn anything, as much as he checked off boxes and requirements for degrees, so he could beat someone else, or was he just basically trying to speed run through community college in order to have bragging rights?<\/span><\/p>\nRegardless, it\u2019s all way too tryhard, way too obnoxious, and frankly a disservice to parenthood and raising a child in my opinion.\u00a0 The boy probably has no friends and no social skills from being either taught at home by Asian parents or being surrounded by much older teens and young adults all through his college journey, and even if he is the wunderkind, when there\u2019s no more school to be had, will probably end up as a sad sack adult with a whole lot of catching up with living amongst human beings, all because he and his family were caught up with trying to better someone else instead of bettering their kid.<\/span><\/p>\nWhen my kids are nine-years old, I\u2019m hoping they\u2019re finishing up the third grade, and have friends and peers their own age.\u00a0 If they\u2019re smarter than the curve, we\u2019ll assess how to challenge them appropriately, but I\u2019m pretty sure sending either my kids off to community college probably isn\u2019t going to be on the table.\u00a0 Meanwhile, by then, this tryhard kid will probably be 18 with a college degree, and completely incapable of getting a job, because he will be a social skill invalid, have no ability to interview or interact with other human beings, and end up working at his parents\u2019 business whatever, stereotypical Asian one they\u2019re in.<\/span><\/p>\nWhen you try hard, you die hard.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sauce: 12-year old California tryhard kid graduates from community college with five associates degrees It seems like every single year, people get more and more competitive about academic achievements, but to a degree where it\u2019s not actually cool anymore, and just kind of attention seeking and insufferable.\u00a0 And the internet doesn\u2019t help, as there are … Continue reading 5 associate degrees? 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