@goth600 yeah, it's a model where you jump through all the hoops and expect a cushy prestigious life once your graduate
@goth600 I think what happened to me was realizing too young that "school" is just a game made up by adults to distract children while their parents work... and then had a hard time pretending to care and was busy w my existential crisis figuring out what actually did matter
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