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College and Seeking More Time for Passion

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Reflecting on his past, the speaker notes that he never took college seriously because he 'could afford not to' as his parents were paying. He felt forced into college, seeing it as a standard he had no option but to follow. When classes didn't appeal to him, he would simply drop them, demonstrating his continued indifference to academic pursuits unless they aligned with his interests. He mentions being forced to drive an Escalade, which he saw as a big, safe, and slow vehicle. He then went on to say that his passion was not about having the fastest car, but about building it.

Goal: Explain how lack of intrinsic motivation affected his academic journey and financial choices.

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so back to the process of how i went from bowling my audi around not caring if i got t-boned or something to now i never took college that seriously because i could afford to not to i wasn't paying for it i didn't have to i was just like forced to go to college that's just it was the standard i had no other option it was just pushed upon me like i was gonna go to freaking bc3 and i didn't care my dad like made me apply to penn state and i happened to get in somehow i don't know how my gpa was like a 2.0 or something i think they like my recommend my um application letter i don't know i have no idea but anyway i got in and i was like okay now i have it wasn't every day i scheduled my classes so it was like every other day so like monday wednesday friday so i'm thinking great i have more time to do what i want to do now and i have more time to stave off that responsibility of some [ __ ] life i don't want which i didn't care about i was not doing what was needed of me to do that and if i was doing bad in a class and it sucked i'd just drop it and i'm like well you can't drop that you could oh you need to make that blade i'm like i don't care like it just didn't i just pushed push push pushed it off so i could just do do car stuff and i had no intent of doing the things that i'm doing right now back then i just did it because i liked it and that was my sole focus all day every day i'd be sitting in class just thinking about what i was gonna do when i got back in the garage or you know what my friends were doing that was just it i blindly followed what i was interested in it blows my mind to think about what what could have been right now if for the last four years i had had not taken the trajectory that i did this didn't just happen some so-and-so wasn't my next-door neighbor nobody just did this like i was not i don't come from racing family my dad doesn't know how to work on cars i was just you know i like cars i mean he liked cars too but he didn't work on him or do any of that stuff with me like i just learned from hanging out with people because it was generally what i love to do there was a time when i was like a real real low it was my after my first semester of college when i really just like basically blew everything off i thought i could skate through it like i did with high school and that wasn't the case you couldn't see what your grade was online and i had no idea well turns out i failed every single class i had every single class i had…

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