Originally posted by @metal-brain
For the record I never said you called me a moron, just that you attacked me. Humy calling me a moron is also an attack, just a more insulting one. He does that when he gets frustrated debating me.
"Bit of a jab there don't you think?"
You started out posting nothing but algebra equations. If that was all that I needed do you really think I would ...[text shortened]... tter if money was not more important than educating teenagers, but that is how the system works.
Your early story sucks, but it happens more often than we think. Kudo's for maintaining an interest in science!
You can still attend say, night school at local community college if you have time, they are not near as expensive as full university.
Myself, I dropped out of HS 6 weeks before graduation because of really bad living conditions in the house I was living in. Had I been living at home and going to Glendora HS I would have graduated with near straight A's.
But I got GED and went to Palomar College in San Marcos California, a very nice college. For instance, my music teacher was Howard Brubeck, brother of Dave Brubeck, if you ever heard of that Jazz genius. Both RIP now. At Palomar now there is the Howard Brubeck auditorium. UCLA got the bulk of his compositions, some 1500 of them. I had an enormous crush on Howard's daughter, Ginger, tall, lithe, beautiful, we had some classes together. Sigh. I tried googling Ginger Brubeck but for sure she would be a Stein of some sort now, Goldstein, Rubenstein, so had no luck tracking her down to say high. Her cousins, Dave's sons, still have the Dave Brubeck quartet but was never able to even contact them.