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Ah why didn't you reply to that comment? This just looks like you're misquoting the tweet thread.

> Maybe I can't understand what you're talking about because I am not American.

Why are you assuming I'm American?

As for the rest, I wouldn't bring this up otherwise but since you went there - I started university at seventeen, worked full time in a pub from when I turned 18 and then had to work two jobs in my final year, I've also suffered close relatives dying and a best friend committing suicide. And yet I can still understand that other people could be in circumstances that really push them to describe being "emotionally devastated" without going through all or even some of that. You're showing a (performative?) lack of empathy here.

> the bureaucracy it's what was killing me

"If a university bureacracy was killing you then what will happen life throws life/death problems at you?" - see how silly that sounds?




> Ah why didn't you reply to that comment? This just looks like you're misquoting the tweet thread.

I dind't?

I'm sorry I did not notice.

can the moderators move it in the right place, please?

> Why are you assuming I'm American?

Because it's an easy guess here and it's the system the article talks about.

> And yet I can still understand that other people could be in circumstances that really push them to describe being "emotionally devastated"

I honestly don't.

Like I hear people saying they are emotionally devasted when their soccer team loses a match, but that's not what being emotionally devasted is, that's how some people describe it. It's called hyperbole.

> "If a university bureacracy was killing you then what will happen life throws life/death problems at you?" - see how silly that sounds?

Textbook non sequitur.

I feel the same way about bureacracy now.

But, if I could, I'd still chose bureacracy over life/death problems every time and also I would keep failing very hard exams if I could, studying like crazy, instead.




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