>Get 29/36 on an aptitude test
>Go to college
>Bust my ass studying
>Eat the one free meal a day from the school cafeteria because I'm a poorfag who could only squeeze in because of a scholarship my score got me
>Fail most of my courses because the counselor tricked me into signing up for classes I had no prerequisite knowledge for
>Meanwhile my rich as fuck roommate gets his even richer gf to do his homework for him
>He pays me to do little favors for him
>He sets up a $2,000 gaming rig to play Skyrim in 4k res
>He and all his buddies have a loud as fuck CoD match the night before the finals in our room of all places
>he doesn't study or show to class ever because he is only here because daddy sent him there
>He promises to pay me to clean up the room after the next semester
>he never does, and I never see him again
>I re-enroll for another semester
>my dad gets a stroke
>I have to quit college to take care of him
>he recovers, but before I can go back to school, he falls down and shatters both legs
>I have to stay home for the next three years to take care of him
>during which time a rare medical condition rares its head in my head: cluster headaches
>not only does it hurt like hell, but it permanently damages my brain and subsequently my IQ
>now I'm afraid to go to college because I know I'm no longer intelligent enough to be able to handle it, even if I didn't have severe chronic head pain and swelling or a family to provide for
I almost made it out, robots. I almost fucking made it out.