China is now a country where a high-school handyman has a master’s degree in physics; a cleaner is qualified in environmental planning; a delivery driver studied philosophy, and a PhD graduate from the prestigious Tsinghua University ends up applying to work as an auxiliary police officer.

These are real cases in a struggling economy - and it is not hard to find more like them.

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    I’m just telling you about my anecdotal experience. You don’t have to believe me. It changes nothing - I loved my lectures to bits. For me, it was such an improvement from high school where I was often bored! At uni, I studied what I was really interested in and even could choose from different lectures. Not every lecturer was good, so I sometimes got bored because of that, but not because I wouldn’t like the subjects they were teaching - I enjoyed every bit of information I learned about at uni. I’m sorry it was so different for you that you can’t believe this could be real for someone.

    Edit: I think I found a better way to explain myself: Imagine a nerd learning all the nerd stuff. That was me.

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      You’re lying to yourself, and you know it.

      It is physically not possible to enjoy everything. You already backtracked, suddenly you were bored, but sitting through something boring is not bad for some reason?

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        I didn’t like all lecturers, but I did like all the information, there was no lecture with boring informations for me. I get it. I didn’t confirm your experience, therefore I must be lying. There’s no way someone could be built differently from you. I suppose I should play the game and say I didn’t like at least something, even though that’s not true, to make myself more relatable.

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          I myself enjoyed every single lecture I had

          I didn’t like all lecturers

          Haters might call that a contradiction.

          I didn’t confirm your experience, therefore I must be lying.

          No, you’re lying because you don’t confirm the almost universal constant that nothing of that magnitude can be all positive. Net positive, sure. Mostly positive, absolutely. But all positive? Bullshit. Especially, if you keep backtracking.