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Why I dropped out and why people do

This is completely anecdotal.

Why I did it

I’m going to skip over a few personal things, but I’ll try to keep in as much as I can for this to make sense.

Fall of ‘22, almost 20% of students dropped out of college. And I was one of them.

Going to tell my parents was not fun. Mostly, because any argument that this was a good idea would lead back to a page like this:

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In my nearly year-long argument, I picked up a few interesting stats.

  • 40% of college students dropped out in 2022.
  • ~24% of them came from private universities

We’ll skip over the parental support anecdote for a minute and break down why I did it and compare it to why a lot of young adults are making similar choices.

I dropped out of my fourth year of college because:

  • I was dealing with trauma from some not-so-healthy experiences (very normal in 22 years of existence)
  • I was a promising, young candidate for VC (I just kept ripping the right moves for it)
  • I had a small group of other drop out kids that kept me on track (out of anything bad)
  • I needed financial stability/decreased debt
  • It was 2021 and that’s kinda what the vibe was.

Disclaimer: My Advice

I’ve been running The Wiress for three years now, been an advisor on dropout communities like Verci, and I’ll tell you what I tell every girl that asks me if she should drop out. I say no. I do this for really only one very specific reason - those who want to drop out will drop out.

There is no reason to be creative unless you have a problem to solve. Mine, was that even if I wanted to do the function of venture capital - I felt a massive wave of pressure to change into a long, sad, lifeless persona that was a “woman in finance.” And who on earth wants to be just like that.

  • Why I dropped out and why people do
  • Why I did it
  • Disclaimer: My Advice