Yesterday I stopped by the U to re-check some posted grades (forgot my PDA last time), and I bumped into a guy who was in a few of my classes. He looked down so I asked him what was wrong. He said he failed the majority of his classes, and now he was going to drop out and get a job. "I guess school just isn't for me" he said.
This guy wasn't really a friend or anything, but I associated with him from time to time. He was the guy who would always say things like "life is too short for homework" or "my parents really wanted me to go to college". He would come in monday mornings saying how crazy the weekend was, and then he would kindly ask the rest of us for some answers to problem sets. In the lab he would ask everybody questions about what we were doing because he obviously just skimmed over the lab manual so he could at least do a half-ass prelab. Simply put, he deserved to fail.
It's not like university is harder than high school. I think university is actually easier than high school.
This guy was clearly intelligent and hard working if he was able to get into university, so why didn't he do any work once he got accepted?