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Hi listeners, I'm Anthony Coons, and I have a story I want to tell you.

A story of a projector with some serious problems.

So, gather round and listen. Close.

At the very end of my last semester, I dropped out of college.

I was so close to graduating. A bachelor's in software engineering.

But it all fell apart one week before our final exams.

I wish I could say that I planned to leave that I was trying to make a statement

and didn't believe in the school as a business model.

I mean, I don't. There should be universal free and public education period,

but that's not why I left.

No. The truth is, I snapped.

I broke down, went crazy, totally lost it.

Whatever name you have for it, sure.

But the bottom line is I just couldn't take it anymore.

I'll admit it, see?

I know what everyone says about me, but unlike them, I can admit when I have a problem.

Of course none of them want to listen. None of them understand that I wasn't the problem.

I could handle the stress, the curriculum, the grades, losing my shot at the master's program,

the breakup. All of that was manageable.

But what I really couldn't stand, what I couldn't tolerate for one more microsecond,

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