CONFESSIONS OF A COLLEGE DROPOUT By Jess Wilson I suppose the one assignment I received in college that interested me most was one that required us to read a play. I read every play I could find in the college library. The report that I turned in received a D-. In algebra, my roommate was the leader in the class. At mid term we received ten practical problems. Every other boy in the class that lived in our dorm came into our room to get Roomy to tell them how to solve the problems. I interrupted my reading of English history to set down the equations for all the ten problems. I think that is what you call them. Every boy in the room could then get the answers. I could have using my own method but not the one the teacher was using.. Within a week I was asked to drop the course or get an "F". Although I did not remain in college long enough to graduate I have extension credits at Eastern, Western, Morehead, and Berea College I learned the history of every King of England from William, the First to George the Fifth. I got no grade for English History, I was not taking the course. You learn some interesting things in history. For instance, Queen Victoria was so prudish that it is almost unbelievable that she could have conceived all those nine children, And do you know why she became queen? Upon the death of her uncle, William IV in 18371 it was found that there were no legitimate male heirs that knew enough to come in from the rain. She had many strong male cousin that would have been ahead of her in the line for the throne, but they were all conceived on the wrong side of the blanket. She was to reign as Queen of England from 1833 to 1910. This period of history was known as the Victorian years. She was the most prudish, straight laced monarch that had ever ruled in England yet when she died, her son George V was a rake, a royal one of course, but still a rake, See, how much more interesting history is than X plus Y equals Z. Some years after I had dropped out of college, during a family discussion of whether or not other members of our family should go to college, my father remarked, "Well, Jess went to college and nothing came of it."