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Today we are going to talk about why we wish we never went to college. So Neil, why don't you start off and say how long were you in college for?

Five and a half years, although when I started college I had enough credits from high school to graduate in two and a half to three at the latest.

It should have been two and a half.

What's the reasoning behind that?

And where did you go again?

I went to Cal State Fullerton.

That was a great school.

It was really easy. Yeah, you went because it was easy.

Yeah, because I looked at mean and median SAT scores. I'm like, cool, they're not going to fail me based on the average

scores that students got on the SAT scores.

So my theory behind that school or choosing that school was if I didn't read a textbook,

I should pass the class.

Let me give you some context on mine before we start on this one.

So I was also in college for five and a half years.

I went to UC Riverside first and then transferred to UC San Diego.

And there's a whole thing with that story.

But like I basically, I almost flunked out my first two years and so why did you transfer what's the story behind that I didn't know you transferred

I transferred because my mom was like the first day I went to school UC Riverside she was helping me move and she's like look at this place you shouldn't be here so it's always about pleasing my mom and making she because she wanted me to be at a higher tier UC so she can brag to her friends. But you see Riverside in like Asian cultures was like it's like not good enough. And turns out it was actually a pretty good school and so it's like, but I just wanted to please my mom so that's why I wanted to transfer but before we continue what happened was in the first year

I only went to the casino and I played World of Warcraft so I had like six withdrawals and like a 1.0 GPA so I was already subject to

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