College was much harder than the “real world”

I agree completely with OP.

College was fucking miserable. The majority of classwork was either difficult or bullshit. Most classes were run by assistant professors who were "teaching" the class to fulfill a requirement and would spend every moment of the class flipping through slides from the book publisher's powerpoints without putting in any effort or discussion. Group projects were a fucking nightmare of undergrad idiocy. Dealing with the university was like having to punch myself in the dick over and over again. And the work was fucking difficult across the board—tests, projects, studying, bullshit bullshit bullshit.

None of the cube-farm white collar jobs I've had since college have come even remotely close to being as hard—or as personally taxing and unfulfilling—as college. Work is easy. There's never homework. There are never bullshit projects or grades. Most tasks have soft deadlines that you can work with. The consequences for "failure" are typically minor and most "failures" can be re-characterized as successes with careful use of Powerpoint and a few e-mails.

I can leave work at work and come home every day and enjoy my life—I work so I can do exactly that. College felt like a four-year-long life-fucking slog. I got my undergrad 20 years ago and I still have nightmares about being in school.

Fuck college.

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