Someone PLEASE Talk Me Down!

norm

any colleges in the Philly area you are considering going to? in order to make an informed decision you must see these schools

Commy

pj show>highschool education.

tremors

Drowned Out wrote:

Rearviewrelease wrote:

No you're not. You're trying to get us to talk you IN to going.
if you want to be talked out of this.....go here:

hehehe! exactly what I was thinking. At the end of the day you are talking about something being so important to you that you want to breach some normal standards of behaviour. Ultimately this is not unhealthy. The more independent you become the more and more opportunities you are going to have to do this. The thing to keep in mind is 'perspective' since once you've breached this once, it will get easier and easier to do, so if you breach on a whim for the sake of it age 17, you are likely to struggle with keeping your desires in check age 21. Personally I would go to Seattle!

Hey, my Dad skipped school to watch Bill Halley and the Comets and he is practically the model of the 'international responsible global citizen' side of 'the man' these days.

In the end your education needs to have passion as well as stability. Personally I think you should go out and do some work, and earn yourself a little of your own money to oil the older adult support. Walk into your local newspaper office and tell them you are going to philly for the week to write them a review of the 4 philly shows; get their blessing and a letter of support. Knock on the door of your college principal and tell him what you are doing for the school to advance your high school writing and journalism experience; get their blessing and start to get a bit of a local media buzz going.

In this way you are turning your rebellious dysfunctional impulses into some seriously helpful employable entrepreneurial spirit which is marking you out 'success' not 'dropout'.

Hey, if you want me to write a letter of support to your College Principal (outlining the educational merit in this and the avenues for publication in print or online) for this venture just let me know. Maybe the forum and / or the tenclub / wishlist foundation could 'commission' and feature your writeup prominently!

I'm deadly serious about taking this kind of approach. You sound like a thoughtful budding writer. Writers live, and they write. Make it happen, these adults had their own dreams once, just speak to their heads and their hearts at the same time

love

t

FrankieG

i am currently 18 (gonna be 19 at show time) and gonna be a college freshman this fall.

Im going to see all 4 Philly Pearl Jam shows. Its not totally unrealistic. I might miss some homework but my college is close enough to Philly that I can make it back to my dorm everynight (and to classes in the morning :( ) .

Senior year in high school is a piece of cake so i think u should go for it!

mrswhatsit

Kiddo, I know the thought of 4 Philly shows is tempting, but look at it this way. You would be spending outrageous amounts of cash, and missing a week of school during a crucial time - the most important fall midterms of your pre-college life. Not smart. Colleges do rescind offers to people who blow off senior year. And what are you going to do on the 29th when there is no show - hang around Philadelphia with nothing to do and little cash? No. Even on days when there is a show, there is not enough for a teenager to do on his own in the city for four whole days. It would be a drag. Go re-read "The Catcher in the Rye." It's true. It's not like you would be spending four days 24/7 with a caravan of fellow fans. Yes, people might meet at pre-parties and hang out, but that's it until the show.

You already have a ticket to the most coveted show of the tour. There will be many other PJ shows and you will be there for them. If you can get a ticket for Friday and leave after school that day, with parental knowledge, and if you have a reliable place to stay while in town, with parental approval of your whereabouts, and if it doesn't cause major financial distress, then adding Friday would be reasonable. But more reasonable would be to go to Saturday only, this time around, and it would probably keep you in better shape for the next series of shows.

Kloddz

Rearviewrelease wrote:

Tell me how ridiculous it would be for a 17 year old Senior in High School to take a week off from school and spend the money to go see 4 PJ shows in Philly.

Those are the things you have to do while you're still young

Rearviewrelease

jaimelyn wrote:

Haha... my brother, ehem, (literally). Just happened across this thread in my nightly travels bro! We're going to Philly 4!! You talked me into it (ya, it was easy) and we're going and it will be epic. You said it yourself- they will play MSG or Boston next year and you will be there. Patience, Brosanna in the highest!

I know! That's why I needed people to talk me out of thinking like this. I got so antsy that I needed to be calmed down. But I'm all good now.

Philly 4 will be incredible!

Sian-of-the-dead

Rearviewrelease wrote:

I guess what I'm really saying is....

Tell me how ridiculous it would be for a 17 year old Senior in High School to take a week off from school and spend the money to go see 4 PJ shows in Philly.

Dude, if you have the money and think you can catch up on the school work, do it. You're only young once

If you don't have the money and can't catch up... don't.

DriftingByTheStorm

zwk51 wrote:

High School is a joke, fuck it!

For real.
Walk in to your principles office and give him a big fat finger (you know which one)
and peace out for the concerts.

I'm all for maturity, and not making questionable life decisions in general,
but this is ROCK N ROLL, goddamnit.

It's PJ at the Spectrum FOR THE LAST TIME IN HISTORY.

I didn't get tickets to ANY of those shows,
so YOU OWE IT TO ME TO ATTEND ALL FOUR.
There WILL BE A TEST ON THE MATERIAL COVERED IN PHILLY so if you fuck around on me and skip out, I WILL KNOW!

Rearviewrelease

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

zwk51 wrote:

High School is a joke, fuck it!

For real.
Walk in to your principles office and give him a big fat finger (you know which one)
and peace out for the concerts.

I'm all for maturity, and not making questionable life decisions in general,
but this is ROCK N ROLL, goddamnit.

It's PJ at the Spectrum FOR THE LAST TIME IN HISTORY.

I didn't get tickets to ANY of those shows,
so YOU OWE IT TO ME TO ATTEND ALL FOUR.
There WILL BE A TEST ON THE MATERIAL COVERED IN PHILLY so if you fuck around on me and skip out, I WILL KNOW!

Oh god...SO MUCH PRESSURE

voodoopug

There will be more tours after this. IMO, this is too early in the year to have "senioritis"....and trust me, I was there too myself!

You'll hate yourself now, but if you work your ass off in school the next few years, you can be where myself and many others are here, free to spend what you need to see many shows and work your own schedule!!

Good luck with your decision and enjoy the show(s)

DriftingByTheStorm

voodoopug wrote:

There will be more tours after this. IMO, this is too early in the year to have "senioritis"....and trust me, I was there too myself!

You'll hate yourself now, but if you work your ass off in school the next few years, you can be where myself and many others are here, free to spend what you need to see many shows and work your own schedule!!

Good luck with your decision and enjoy the show(s)

Seriously though?
It's HIGH school.
Half his class mates are either skipping, or smoking pot all day.
Another good quarter are permanently brain dead any how.

WHAT IS HE GONNA MISS?

Some boring ass lecture on Catcher in the Rye,
a civics class where they blow smoke up your ass about the joys of a "democracy",
or maybe some great calc\pre-calc class where the teacher can't even explain what the fuck the Quadratic Equation really fucking means anyhow?

Pass on that shit.
Go to the shows, man.

I'm jimminy fucking crickets evil twin with horns,
and i say blow off that lousy high school crap
and meal down on some thick tunes!

voodoopug

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

voodoopug wrote:

There will be more tours after this. IMO, this is too early in the year to have "senioritis"....and trust me, I was there too myself!

You'll hate yourself now, but if you work your ass off in school the next few years, you can be where myself and many others are here, free to spend what you need to see many shows and work your own schedule!!

Good luck with your decision and enjoy the show(s)

Seriously though?
It's HIGH school.
Half his class mates are either skipping, or smoking pot all day.
Another good quarter are permanently brain dead any how.

WHAT IS HE GONNA MISS?

Some boring ass lecture on Catcher in the Rye,
a civics class where they blow smoke up your ass about the joys of a "democracy",
or maybe some great calc\pre-calc class where the teacher can't even explain what the fuck the Quadratic Equation really fucking means anyhow?

Pass on that shit.
Go to the shows, man.

I'm jimminy fucking crickets evil twin with horns,
and i say blow off that lousy high school crap
and meal down on some thick tunes!

And the other half are the ones that are writing their own ticket in the next ten years. I don't want to get into a big discussion over it, but count how many people you know who were pot heads in high school who are now earning six figures. In all candor, I graduated with a class of almost 1000, and I can only think of one.

DriftingByTheStorm

voodoopug wrote:

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

voodoopug wrote:

There will be more tours after this. IMO, this is too early in the year to have "senioritis"....and trust me, I was there too myself!

You'll hate yourself now, but if you work your ass off in school the next few years, you can be where myself and many others are here, free to spend what you need to see many shows and work your own schedule!!

Good luck with your decision and enjoy the show(s)

Seriously though?
It's HIGH school.
Half his class mates are either skipping, or smoking pot all day.
Another good quarter are permanently brain dead any how.

WHAT IS HE GONNA MISS?

Some boring ass lecture on Catcher in the Rye,
a civics class where they blow smoke up your ass about the joys of a "democracy",
or maybe some great calc\pre-calc class where the teacher can't even explain what the fuck the Quadratic Equation really fucking means anyhow?

Pass on that shit.
Go to the shows, man.

I'm jimminy fucking crickets evil twin with horns,
and i say blow off that lousy high school crap
and meal down on some thick tunes!

And the other half are the ones that are writing their own ticket in the next ten years. I don't want to get into a big discussion over it, but count how many people you know who were pot heads in high school who are now earning six figures. In all candor, I graduated with a class of almost 1000, and I can only think of one.

You mean,
besides every member of pearl jam?


"Seriously though" ...

what's that old saying?

The A students are all working for the B students.
The B students run the show.
The C students are all working for the Government?

You really think missing 4 days of school is the difference between 6 figures and being a burnout on welfare?

decides2dream

Rearviewrelease wrote:

So I'm only 17 from Mass. and got tickets to go see 10/31 Philly. I' going with my brother-in-law and sister, both avid PJ fans.

I'm so wanting to take school off that week and heading to Philly for all 4 show.

Since my brother-in-law and sister could not A) take that time off from work or spend that type of money on shows/travel.....I'm pretty much SOL.

But, I've been playing through these crazy scenarios of 10C'ers taking me over to see all 4 shows and my mom letting me and all this other BS.

It makes me SO angry knowing none of this is possible, yet it's so easily attainable by saying to fellow 10C'ers that I need spare tickets for the show, which could totally happen.

Someone just tell me I'm being irrational or something, because the urge of wanting to go to all 4 shows is getting out of control.

Help Me :?

be realistic.
will your mom let you go?
can you definitely score tix to all gigs from others here?
where will you stay each night and with whom? (b/c no offense, i think while you may be able to score spares, it might be difficult for a relative stranger, an adult, to choose to share a hotel room with a 17 year old....just unwise on both sides)
do you have the $$$ to afford all this?
so yes, in all likelihood....not a realistic scenario for you. possible? perhaps. however, i do think more than likely, improbable. if you actually had some friend to do this all with, might be different. missing 4 days of school is the least of it really.

being realistic tho, why not just aim for the saturday, 10.31 show? i think that would work for you much more. and hell, even as adults, many of us make different choices. i 'could' do all 4 shows if i wanted to, but i am choosing only to do the last 2 for many reasons. i will save that extra $$$ and vacation time for some other cool city and show(s).


good luck.

Cinnamon Girl

I think doing these kind of things is really good for you...even at that age.

When I was sixteen I took off to the other side of the country with a girlfriend. I wasn't going to tell my parents, thinking that they would never approve, but they found out. they made sure I planned for everything! Life experience is a good and helpful thing.

If the money is there, and you set up safe lodgings, I say go for it!

Promise yourself that you'll work extra hard at school to make up for the missed time. Youth is often wasted sitting in a classroom...not wanting to be there. Are you going to spend those days in class just wishing you were in Philly and not paying attention to the work you're supposed to do?

GO!! But plan it responsibly.

satansbed

just go and fucking do

jaimelyn

voodoopug wrote:

There will be more tours after this. IMO, this is too early in the year to have "senioritis"....and trust me, I was there too myself!

You'll hate yourself now, but if you work your ass off in school the next few years, you can be where myself and many others are here, free to spend what you need to see many shows and work your own schedule!!

Good luck with your decision and enjoy the show(s)

I agree with this dude, brother. It feels good to be older and "responsibily" impulsively buying some tickets to shows and you'll definitely be in that place too some day, if you keep bustin yr butt. In school. :ugeek:

mrvedderson

zwk51 wrote:

High School is a joke, fuck it!

yeah, and besides, think of all the jealous girlies that would be hangin off of you when you get back

starmap3333

In short...
You're only young once. Do it.

the end.