Everything is all or nothing. We are in or we are out. My college transcript is all As/Bs (save for one or two Cs) or all Fs. Simply put, if I could not get a "perfect" semester, then anxiety attacks snatched me from the world. A failed exam meant no returning from a C or D, and since a D receives no college credit, why bother? A bad transcript means a bad job--or that's all I understood at the time. (I now know that most jobs are bad.) There is no incentive to continue at this point. Worse than that: there is no consumer protection for students, no refund, no protection in place (one of many problems with U.S. higher education). So now the student is stuck with a wasted semester with no refund and a future of mediocrity.
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