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Sometimes the best thing to do in school is to get out as soon as you can.
Due to cultural normalization, inertia, busyness or lack of practical alternatives, most American adults passively hold a basket of truisms about schooling: that it develops a child’s full potential, teaches “critical thinking” and “problem-solving,” and creates informed citizens and skilled future workers. An education-obsessed, immigrant middle class background socialized me into the college rat race; conceptually entrapped by the Ivy League pipeline, I increasingly felt a visceral desire to escape the physical classroom. But my senseless pride dismissed itself when I failed to make the traditional Sort, and by sophomore year I had locked in on this cheat code, aggressively adhered to the requirements before transferring to the University of Virginia with 60 credits.
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