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did you fail at your bachelor's before?

>I'm almost twenty-one years old
>and I don't even have my fucking Master's Degree yet.
most people don't have their bachelor's degree until they're 22 or older. why are you so worried?

>>1405850
No, I just should have been more of a success so I could have graduated from high school earlier and earned my bachelor's by at least two years before now.
Sometimes I think instead I should have just skipped high school altogether and earned a GED when I was 15 so I could transfer to a university when I was 16 or 17.

>>1405858
Because I don't want to be on the same level as most people.

>>1405864
sometimes time doesn't matter OP. why dont you just go over to your friends house or something. you sound like you think you're so smart compared to everybody else.

>>1405878
If I were so smart I wouldn't be such an underachieving loser.

>>1405875
>Because I don't want to be on the same level as most people.

Problem identified. You have contempt for other people, and therefore the notion that you are on the same level as other people is offensive to you. You're an elitist who is accomplishment-trolling to glorify your ego instead of to learn about and participate in your society as a productive and complete human being. Do you really think you would be any more mature, or even significantly more learned, if you had a Master's, with this attitude of "get the degree as quickly as possible"? Maybe a little, sure. But you would mostly use the Master's degree and this marginal increase in learning as an opportunity to feed your ego. That isn't healthy, and that's why you're stuck making bullshit threads on anonymous imageboards, not because you don't have a Master's.

>>1405895
not true. underacheiving means your school or parents suck. i mean yeah people will say 'take responsibility', 'stop being lazy' & things like that but i don't see how it's any different from social mobility & people/politicians try to make that 'fairer', it's like an emotional version of it. so i think it's ok to blame other people for your underachieving.

who do you blame OP?

>>1405875
dont worry about other people you got to take things at your own pace

>>1405910
I just feel like my own pace should be a lot faster

interesting thread

what uni is that in the pic, OP?

>>1405965
>>what uni is that in the pic, OP?
>20091013-Wikipiedia Tokyo U YasudaAuditorium.jpg
also im surprised no one is jumping on my last post....

OP is fuck fuck fucking stupid

>>1405956
as long as this desire to have a faster pace comes from within, and not in thinking about how other people live their lives, that is okay. if you want to get done more quickly, then work out the steps you need to take to get there. if it can't be done, accept the time you have and enjoy it. what is the rush to get out into the job market anyway? you will work for just one additional year in your life? that doesn't amount to much in the grand scheme of your life.

Age, 21.
>Two bachelors and a master.

OP, when I was about to turn 21 I had a sad running list in my head of the ages at which moderately attractive 826 Valencia-adjacent novelists published their own book, and I thought to myself that it would be kind of pathetic if, at the absolute latest, I hadn't topped Everything Is Illuminated by the time I was 25. I'm about to be put out to pasture by those standards, but in those few years I've gained enough wisdom to realize what a dipshit I am and to understand that my junior year of college was probably better-spent drinking heavily on study abroad at the University of Glasgow than writing White Teeth at Cambridge, that the year after I graduated was better-spent on actual illicit homosexual dalliances than doing a first draft of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, etc.

It ain't all that serious, son.

>not true. underacheiving means your school or parents suck.

Nope. There is some validity to this, and parents and education do matter, but reducing underachieving to external factors is exactly the kind of contemptible shit contemptible people use to justify being contemptible. Taking full responsibility for your actions is a normative statement to put you on the right path, and taken with a proper amount of salt is totally workable for 99% of adults.

>>1405986
whoops, "their first book" not "their own book."

This is why I'll never be a lit prodigy!!

Here in nazi Iceland most people don't even start collage until they turn 20, so run and tell that homeboy.

>Live in Sweden.
>Worried about being a failure if one doesn't have a double degree before age 24
>Realize the average national age for uni is 23-25.
>Not so worried anymore

>>1405997
yeah i'm sure stopping underachieving is possible for these people but to do so probably means more stress & trauma then for most others. so you might be able to bring yourself in line with people with great parents and teachers but after doing it you'll be the one dieing of cancer in your 40/50s, and also alone since you suck/angry.

also i reported your post for illegal content.

>22 yrs old
>Uni dropout.
>Unemployed
>Currently stoned
>Posting on /lit/
>Lots of green text
>mfw

>>1406011

wtf? way to do your tiny part to inconvenience admins and fuck over the victims of the actual illegal content that is posted on 4chan.

also lmao

>>1406020
>way to do your tiny part to inconvenience admins and fuck over the victims of the actual illegal content that is posted on 4chan
i'm reporting a guy that's advocating drug abuse, alcoholism, suicide & consciously giving yourself cancer all in one post.

>i'm reporting a guy that's advocating drug abuse, alcoholism, suicide & consciously giving yourself cancer all in one post.

This is why you're the worst person on /lit/. You think this bullshit is clever, and you think you yourself are clever, as if existing gives you magical privilege to be loved. Maybe if you yourself actually took responsibility for your actions, instead of being an asshole and then apologizing for your knowingly anti-social behavior, you would actually get some of the positive attention you apparently actually desire. You can say it's "trolls trolling trolls, etc." but normal people don't do what you're doing. It is sincerity and it is a sickness, and i hope you get some treatment sometime.

I like sucking cocks

>>1406039
actually braytak is posting pretty good day (b/c he's not doing his 'i am a lonely and weird waif and every post i make must be about my personal life' thing) (in other words he's adding content) also it's probably not ACTUALLY braytak

>>1406039
>This is why you're the worst person on /lit/.
really? there was a guy yesterday that was proud to make out with a girl that already had a boyfriend once!

>You think this bullshit is clever, and you think you yourself are clever, as if existing gives you magical privilege to be loved
no, i only think i should be loved because most people are. but sometimes i think i dont deserve to be too. why you guys always think im such a narcissus, i'm like the opposite of that most of the time, especially irl.

>Maybe if you yourself actually took responsibility for your actions, instead of being an asshole and then apologizing for your knowingly anti-social behavior, you would actually get some of the positive attention you apparently actually desire
oh i c, you mean lit specifically. i dont feel responsible here. i think its fairer to bitch relentlessly to you guys since you're losers as well, not people irl. & i also think you'll forgive me because of the numbers. its not like irl where i bore one person to death then they ignore me.

>You can say it's "trolls trolling trolls, etc." but normal people don't do what you're doing. It is sincerity and it is a sickness, and i hope you get some treatment sometime
yes im kind of sincere. why is that such a big deal though?

>>1406080
>i also think you'll forgive me because of the numbers

Well, then you're retarded. Nothing else to see here, folks.

Welcome to being most everyone else.

>>1406088

> most

almost

>>1406091
I'll take the language where I want it.

>>1406086
so far i've been proved right. try making arguments other than 'i dont like you so no one else does'.

OP, some 40% of people who are 25 or under are in college right now. Do you think all of them are going to be successful (in terms of making a lot of money, which it seems all people care about)? No. Get off your high horse.

I know a DOCTOR that became a Buddhist monk. Your life is not set in stone, and odds are, 20 years from now, you will see life very differently than you do now. So relax.

>>1406381
>Doctor that became a monk

If it wasn't for vows of celibacy I'd say that was a great career move: free food and lodgings for sitting around saying "om" all day. Wicked.

>>1405875

lol. I'm 18 and in medical school.

>>1405895
>If I were so smart
>were so smart
>were

>>1406529
*was

>>1405956

Sounds like you're a dumbass who wants to be a prodigy but is too stupid to even focus on what he is doing right now.

>>1406529
>you are now aware you have just discovered the subjunctive mood

Don't take it so hard OP.

You're pretty far ahead of me, I dropped out of university when they started handing out the first round of assignments and have been unemployed for a year since then. I have no friends and haven't left the house in 4 days. I'm quite clever too.

I think you're doing great overall but you should probably take some time to study probabilities before you whine about not being #1 There are a lot of people in the world and six point some odd billion of us have to settle for not being the brightest.

>>1406575
You sound like the average /lit/ denizen.

maybe if you stop hanging out with scumbag contaminating losers shit-twats you might actually get somewhere in life..

I'm graduating this year with a bachelors at 23, only to go and start another bachelors next year. At this point I'm just thinking "fuckit", and have ceased caring.

>>1406590
>another bachelor's

get your fucking master's degree, goddamn

>>1406593
If I want to be an architect, I have to do architecture as a bachelors.

>>1406590
Don't get a masters unless it's in something practical where you actually do learn--something like history or engineering.

Otherwise, it's an egregious waste of money.

>>1406595
Don't do Architecture. It's fucking horrible. You spend your life as a servant of the rich, with hardly any creative control. Far better to be rich and hire architects.

>>1406609
Name a job where you're not a servant to the rich.

>>1406623
Social worker.

>>1406599
>history

>practical