One small reason I ultimately dropped out of college was that I was made to take a PE course that was essentially the same pointless exercise in humiliation from high school. Semester after semester, I took and dropped it. By my end, I had no respect for my own degree program
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Lots of foreign language mentions in the replies — this is rapidly becoming an extremely pointless multi-semester activity for most students given that translation tech is rapidly eating the utility between "knows a few travel phrases" and "willing to spend years becoming fluent"
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Perseverance in the face of adversity is as much a skill as math or programming. Sometimes we have to be Sisyphus. Also, if you dropped out, were you actually excluded or is that a choice you made for yourself?
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I was excluded from being certified for a thing which I am not certifiable for. I'm not suggesting it was a bad thing.
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Yup, I got a research job in NYC, and I was basically like "peace!"
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Curious what you’d consider worthwhile suffering. I think I’ve fallen into the trap of justifying it far too often.
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Lots of things, but nothing which terminates in a ticked box
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I was willing to endure pointless things in college because I believed that helping researchers check bureaucratic boxes was important.

I dropped out when I realized that regardless of title there are so very few researchers out there.
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