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This is something people oblivious to their lucky breaks keep saying to themselves.

>you're going to feel lucky when you do finally get a hit.

Yes, because if I try something for 15 times and only 1 time succeed it is not my skills that worked, otherwise they would have worked the first time, it is pure luck. So I feel lucky because I am.


>I also just got asked to answer homework questions for cheap.

My exact experience as a tutor. The clients do not want tutoring, they want an afterschool homework program.


I'm not in the USA but my universities in the 90s used to offer at least 5 online 5-year courses (CE, EE, Chemical, Mechanics and Energy) and you would have to go only one month a year for the labs. Now they offer ZERO. It wouldn't surprise me that some professors feel "offended" that people choose to follow the lectures online instead of taking the "advantage" of his prestigious person.


> I suspect the social value of school will become much more apparent soon.

It's important for the children to see the bullies protected by inept teachers, otherwise how will they learn how the world actually works?


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