They say "you chose to take hard classes in high school", "you chose rigor". No! I was systemically coerced to make these decisions under the guise I would end up like my parents if I didn't!

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Yup. Parents told me “we don’t care what you do, as long as you go to college” now I’m drowning in debt and struggling to find work

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neither of my parents went to college and we lived in poverty. they weren’t supportive people even when we ended up homeless so i took college as an opportunity to escape and have better opportunities

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i’m in college cuz my parents can afford it and i wanted to leave the house 😊🙏 and i also like the independence and freedom when im away at school

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I was and went in undeclared with no clue what I was doing with my life but I luckily found my passion here that requires a degree to work in

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The opposite was actually drilled into me 😭

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they forced me

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I knew I wanted to do research in math/physics since I was 17 and I’m about to start living that out teehee

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Nah I wanna teach on pbs sooooo

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Yep.

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