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Originally Posted by Montrealcorp
Dont you think that learning what you learn bring you more than just being able to write?
i did not study in your field but surely you learn some structure/deduction of thoughts and discipline that you could apply in other area of your life, that might even be useful in the future ?
i mean when i learn chess for example, it help a lot my analytical ability that years later, help me in poker.
I know i did not spend loads of money like you did but i have difficulty believing that your "brain" did not progress in other domain than just simply writing...
I started the UW as a junior in 2003 and my first year was fine enough - I worked and studied hard. My senior year I got wrapped up in the poker boom and I had the delusion that I was making $100/hour online and that's all I could think about when I was in class, so I stopped going. I stopped going to work too. I basically dropped out with less than a month of school left. I took a full summer schedule and paid my tuition myself and then went to class three times and never showed up again. I was 10 credits short.
I eventually finished those last two classes in 2010. I was alcoholic my entire time in college and I had a gambling addiction my senior year. I don't think I grew at all as a person while I was in school and I fancied myself a rapper at the time (great at writing, no natural vocal talents) and it's alarming how often I used that skill set in school. I basically got my degree in reading books, rapping, and writing ****ty stories.
My poker "career" lasted a year before I hit bottom. I had no concept of bankroll management and I had a compulsion to play all the time and any success I had would be wiped out by alcohol eventually until I got sober in 2010.