Has anyone ever been screwed over by the system?

Sithra
Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:30:44 +0000

Has anyone ever been screwd over by bureaucracy or any other factors outside of their control, such as luck or geography?

For example, going to a premier engineering school and deciding to leave but with a terrible GPA that won’t be accepted by any colleges other than a community college? Or another example would be having a very large and impersonal high school with very poor teaching quality, feeling like the grade system is largely decided by obedience and submission (the suck-ups) thus not having any motivation to do anything and basically just wasting 4 years there.

Has anyone else been screwed over by the “system”? And if so, how do you deal with it? When it comes to as big a thing as college, how would you react to having all of your past efforts seeming wasted and your future in jeopardy? Would you be bitter about it or would you get over it quickly and make the best of it?