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I swore up and down that you should never drop a class after the deadline, until one professor gave me 10 minutes of real talk
He said 'You're not quitting, you're cutting a loss' and that reframe is the only reason I didn't waste another 4 months forcing a class that had nothing to do with my major, so now I'm wondering how many other 'rules' I follow are just things I never bothered to question.
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vera_murphy9d ago
Something nobody really talks about is how these rules often come from people who were protecting themselves, not you. A lot of the "never do this" advice we get handed down was made for a different situation, a different school, a different time, and it just got passed along like it was set in stone. In my experience the real test is asking what the rule is actually protecting you from, and half the time there is no good answer. Your mileage may vary of course, but that professor sounds like he actually cared about you as a person and not just as a number on a roster. Take it with a grain of salt, but I bet there are a few more of those rules worth poking at.
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