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The reason college matters is because people take hard classes and have to fight through them to graduate. Hard is the point of it, not the problem! Now you just have to figure out how to do what the class asks you to do. Work harder. Study more. Make a schedule of when you have to study. Talk to the professor, to TAs, to tutors. Go to every office hour / study group / class you can. You can do it, but you will have to grow as a person to make it. That is the point. Good luck=).

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Having grown up on a farm, working hard is what you do. Not just physically, but mentally too. When equipment breaks, you have to figure out how to fix it. When a unique problem arises, you have to engineer a solution. You have to learn a lot and you have to learn how to learn on the spot. And you're doing all of that before you even enter high school.

I understand that kids growing up in the city are most often not afforded the same opportunities. I personally did not find much benefit to college, but based on your comment, it seems I already received my "college education" when I was a kid. Has college become a substitute for the learning that most children are missing out on as a result of modern societal forces?

what if the college does not offer hard classes. I am not talking about a scenario where I am brilliant and know everything, I am talking about a scenario where classes are not really hard. Everything is on a basic level and no advanced level stuff.

Then I'm afraid you applied to the wrong college. If it was me, I'd a) work out how to demonstrate you are top of the class and b) befriend someone in the faculty who will mentor you, with the probable aim of c) transferring to another, more challenging institution or at least course at the same institution. Fortune favours the bold.

a)check

b)check

c)my education system does not allow that

I'm curious about what education system doesn't allow you to eventually move on to harder studies.

I mean, I've been screwed by schools again and again by their promises of transfer credit and then not giving it to me after I've dropped out of my old school and have applied to their school (while going to a lower down college to fill out some course requirements), but despite that there is still the opportunity for me to fill out requirements and move onto a harder school.

Bugger. I find it hard to believe its impossible, even if there is no formal or published process though. Good luck devising your own course of study then :)

All educational systems let you drop out after being accepted somewhere better. Apply first and then leave!

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