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Is academia an excuse to "hide out" for a while and continue being an autodidact? Also, the 2 hour commute, as I'm sure you suspect, is no small part of the in

• tel 13y ago
  Only if you want to be slowly edged out. Academia actively kills off people too interested in taking classes and insufficiently interested in doing work for whatever preset research effort can pay their rent.
• wavefunction 13y ago
  I'm an autodidact and I found "higher ed" limiting and throttled to an artificially low rate of learning. If anything, dropping out of college was in many ways a god-send though it does make it more difficult dealing with the professional population for whom the old college experience was more "meaningful."