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 German college is free and I'm almost done. 
 Ahhhh. Sorry, German college is different. American college will dumb you down.  👌👊👊👊👊👊👊👊🧮 
 Only every third person completes this degree. Most disappear after the second semester. 
 Do you want the degree or the knowledge? 
 Why not both🤷🏻‍♂️ 
 Sure, I'm just asking about her main motivation. 
 It’s personal. You can just feel it. 
 Everyone around me has M.Sc. and Physics Ph.D.s and shit. Two of my eight colleagues are also EE professors. 🥴 
 I got a ₿A in FA, it goes without saying your smarter than me 
 I am a self-certified master practitioner 
 I actually have an excellent logistics management certification, so I have papers. 😂 
 Yeah, both.

I've already learnt a lot and I'm tired of being the only person on every team without a degree.

Wanting to learn something is why I didn't pick something easier, but I'm like, damn this is friggin hard. 🙈 
 That’s what she said. 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 
 😂 
 LOL..

But take it from someone who barely got started in College before feeling forced to drop by the circumstances, get back in and finish your degree. That will not only boost your confidence but will empower you to risk more and get more.

After you get the degree, you can study something different that will bring you more joy. 
Put closure on that goal you started. Your future self will forever tap you on the shoulder.

Do not hesitate another second.

SPECIALLY IF IT IS FREE.

I was so poor and alone, I could not even focus on my first classes. I was always hungry and my little jobs paid minimum wage. 

The first thing I did as an adult, was pre pay my child’s college tuition… the rest is history.

Hope this helps!

Carlos. 
 I'm actually a total computer nerd.

My new dream is to finish and go back to teach seminars on Bitcoin, Lightning and Nostr. 
 I was feeling sort of unmotivated lately, and thought about switching to mechanical engineering because of my job, but Nostr has me all fired up, again.

The last time I took the protocol and communications class, I was like, I'm never going to use this. 😴 Now, I'm like... Oooh... websockets. 🤩 
 Nothing is free, somebody else is paying it 👀 
 True. But also it’s free. Soooooo 
 Pre-paid might be a better term? 
 All-inclusive. 
 Yeah, me. 😭 I pay a shitload of income taxes and other people go to college and study useless Something Studies on my dime and then they make more money than I do.