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No it isn't. The diligence bar for obtaining a bachelor's degree is so far below the diligence bar for maintaining a work presence that they almost don't bear comparison.

People make this observation all the time, but I'm guessing that even the most diligent students who make it showed up late to class often enough that they'd have gotten disciplined had class been a real job.



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