<p>Vonnegut was glad to be out of the university and into WWII because of being forced by his father into a chemistry program for which he was clearly, and by his own admission, ill suited. The Chronicle article seemed to be surprisingly open and frank in my opinion. It is still my belief that it was Kurt’s displeasure with having been forced into a mistaken academic program (mistaken for his particular temperament), and not the university as a whole, that caused him to take the tragic “out” into WWII.</p>