Why adults still dream about school
I feel like this is because school, especially college, and particularly exams, is about as high-stakes as most people&#x27;s lives ever get, so they look back at that time as peak-anxiety. Think about it: you&#x27;re being evaluated and the result of that evaluation shapes the next step in the pipeline, and ultimately the trajectory of the rest of your life! Well, at least that&#x27;s what the university officials, professors, your peers and parents all tell you. You pretty much have a series of &quot;one chance&quot; events that you must pass or you&#x27;re done for. Failure of any step is permanent, and affects your average (seemingly) forever.<p>The whole path from elementary school through to college graduation feels like a career development game where the stakes are raised every year. Fail once off the path, and it&#x27;s Walmart Greeter for you, forever! It&#x27;s no wonder I still wake up in a cold sweat over it, 30 years on.