Thread by @CSakwah

Dear struggling university students, before you make that haste decision to quit school;
1) Society perceives a university dropout to be a bigger failure than a primary or high school dropout.
2) The likelihood of getting back to school in the future is near zero.

3). The outside is not greener. Society is very harsh to failures. Our society believes that one can only make it in life through education, therefore, to fail at it might be perceived to be the biggest failure in life.
4) Your risk getting rejected by family and society....

Especially by people who believe that they have invested money, time, and resources for you to join university. You will be subjected to constant ridicule, unfair judgment, insults and trolls. You will lose the respect and admiration that you had from society.

5) You will lose friends, obviously, either by withdrawing or them withdrawing. On my side, I withdrew completely.
6) The chances of you getting employed in Kenya gets slimmer the moment you drop out of the university.

I once applied for a job as a high school canteen attendant. After the interview, I was told that I was overqualified for the job. Whereas you are underqualified in the usual job market because you don't have a degree, you will be overqualified for jobs meant for H. sch graduates

6) For every Marc Zuggerberg out there, for every successful collage dropout, their are millions that are languishing in life or stuck in an abssym of abject poverty. Don't be fooled to believe that success follows dropouts, no, it doesn't.

7) You will be used as a bad example during family gatherings. You will be compared to the son and daughter of so and so and asked why can't you be like them? You know how these kinds of questions kill someone's morale.

8) Some families will expect you to start providing or get out to seek employment like a normal graduate. You are an adult. Being a student masks you from some responsibilities. Dropping out at 20 or 21 exposes to the responsibilities of graduates who are 23 or 24.

9) Photos, conversations, or videos of your friends and peers graduating from campus will affect you mentally. They will constantly remind you about you failed in education.
10) People will call you a failure, constantly. In the long run, your brain might internalize this tag

which will mean that you will start considering yourself a failure.
In short, life out of the university as a dropout is harsher than the comrade struggles. It only gets worse for you the moment you walk outside campus with anything else but a degree or diploma.

For every Mark Zuckerberg.