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Judgmenl posted...

School is not hard, it's pointless/boring.

It 100% can be ball-bustingly hard; it depends entirely on your major and what classes you're taking.

I'm an engineer, and to this day I have never had to work as hard before or since as I did when I was getting my degree. The sheer volume of work thrown at you in some of the courses was nightmarish and it was difficult material to boot. And it's not like the students aren't bright; the mean high school average of students the year I went into university was 89%; we had several dozen valedictorians in the freshman batch of ~700 first year students; yet roughly a third of those students didn't make it to second year. My average in my Grade 12 year was 97% and yet I absolutely struggled at points during undergrad. I still made it through and my grades were solid, but I was definitely not a straight-A student anymore.

Will you have this experience if you take an easier degree? No, probably not. But to simply give a blanket statement that "school isn't hard, it's pointless/boring" is wrong (on both counts - I found a lot of the material extremely interesting, moreso than 95% of what we covered in high school, and it was absolutely relevant for my work).