After doing some self reflection today, I realized that I could finish college (I passed every exam), but the amount of time I spent for college (basically the whole day each day) is too much to handle for me.

Note to future me: If you blame yourself for why you didn't continue, it's because of the lack of time, freedom and calmness of your mind. Otherwise you would have went literally insane.

Trust me, your early version is in that phase right now, and I know it better than you do.

In my studies, we did have "free" time during the exam period. What that translated into was one week fulltime prep for every three semester weekly hours of lectures. Eight hours per day, six days per week.

@Fast-Nop sorry it is late and my brain becomes very slow at night time.

Do you mean that you had 8 hours of free time each day for almost an entire week in a time frame of 3 semesters?

@-ANGRY-STUDENT- No, I meant that what was labelled as "free time" actually was a 48h week of work. That is more than in a regular job, and that was already the "free" time.

@Fast-Nop oh my god.
Yeah, we had the same thing in our exam phase! :D

@-ANGRY-STUDENT- That's just normal if you study real shit.

One 48h week was just for a smallish course that went over one semester with three hours of lecture per week. We did have exams worth three times that amount, so the prep for one single of such a big exam went over three such 48h weeks.

When I finished my studies and got my first industry job, the first thing I noticed was how much free time I suddenly had.

I totally understand this!

I finished my bachelor, having a full time job and then thought 'hmm, I have some time after work, I should do a master'.

I applied for it, got in and never had free time ever again. Now I'm thinking to myself 'Why did I applied, WHYY!!'

@osq-ppp oof...
Wishing you the best.

Don’t be a fool, stay at school.

@-ANGRY-STUDENT- Sure you can lower the bar for students, but there's no bottom because there will always be students complaining, and because then even more students would enlist who don't do that today because they know it's too challenging, and they would also complain about the difficulty.

Ultimately, you would hand out degrees like candy, and they would be worthless.

At school, you have about 90% repetition in each lecture, and only 10% new stuff. At uni, it's the other way around. That requires a different learning strategy.