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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Now I understand that my exclusion was probably by design. I'm neurotic and I'm disagreeable, and I lack the conscientiousness to make up for it when I'm being told to do something that does nothing but create suffering for myself in order to make someone else tick a box for me.
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Replying to @webdevMason
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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The thing is not perseverance, btw — if I had left because I needed to go take care of a sick family member, I would be equally uncertifiable and equally without a degree.
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These two situations probably seem entirely different to you, but they have some features in common and they have the same result. I'm readily admitting that I don't have the right personality for what a degree certifies, and someone else might not have the right circumstances.
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