Ask HN: What to do if I can't finish university?
One of these reasons is that I simply cannot get my brain to work in an exam setting and have it memorize a bunch of things to then try and remember it on the exam. As well as all the material in my university (in Netherlands) being presented in a horrible manner where is is nearly always best to actually learn it yourself online which is what I did.
It also doesn't help that I have 0 friends inside the university nor in the city I live in.
This constant depression and feeling like I am in in Groundhog Day movie where I repeat the same subjects again and again is making me ever more depressed. It also doesn't help that I cannot find a job of any kind despite actually knowing how to build things.
Trying to solve my own frustrations in life and education I actually started a project to try and solve this as I realized that most learning already happens online, it's just most don't know what they can learn about even and how everything connects. Google just provides a very powerful empty query box and you need to have a question first.
The project is a website and can be found here: https://learn-anything.xyz
I even launched it some time ago on HN and got some positive comments.
All that is to say that is it normal to always feel this depressed about education? Am I a weak person who can't handle the stress of it all so I just give up and try and find the 'easy' way out?
What can I do at this point? I really really hate university and I cannot wait to actually work on something I love and get paid to do it but it seems that to do that you need to get that CS degree paper. And the project I started is open source and has just enough money to stay afloat through donations.
I have no idea what to do at this point.