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Speedrunning College: Four Years Later, A Conclusion

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Four years ago, I wrote not the most-read essay of my time online, nor the one closest to my heart, but what was certainly the most immediately impactful: Speedrunning College: My plan to get a Bachelor’s degree in a year. I know at least three people who, as a direct result of my essay and its companion articles, started and finished their own degrees. It was a dubious honor to see all of this happen while I was quietly struggling to care about my own, but an honor nonetheless. It would be wiser, in many ways, for me to avoid writing this article. That is the way of things, after all: we trumpet our successes and whisper our failures, shouting out our ambitious plans before silently making concessions to reality. Future employers or admissions committees can find this, after all. More pertinently to me, perhaps, those who I hope will take my writing seriously can read this and know precisely who I am; those who wish me ill can wield it as a weapon. But having invited a horde of facele

Speedrunning College: Four Years Later, A Conclusion Plus a few months, but who's counting? Jack Despain Zhou Nov 22, 2023 122 31 5 Share Four years ago, I wrote not the most-read essay of my time online, nor the one closest to my heart, but what was certainly the most immediately impactful: Speedrunning College: My plan to get a Bachelor’s degree in a year . I know at least three people who, as a direct result of my essay and its companion articles, started and finished their own degrees. It was a dubious honor to see all of this happen while I was quietly struggling to care about my own, but

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