I think the last few years (probably longer, it's just more pronounced now) have shown us the social impact of lowering the time kids spend together, particularly at school. This person thinks that they've hacked the system, but in reality this all could have been achieved in most high quality school systems in the US (they say they were socialized into the "college rat race" so I assume they were in an area where this was the case). Kids in Maryland and Virginia public school systems are regularly in community college classes by senior year.Amusingly, they have other pro-natalism writing where they argue for social reintegration. What a mess.
n00bskoolbus|7 months ago
> barring one final class I took online the following summer while I was couch-surfing in San Francisco with random internet friends.
> I soon moved to Cambridge in a group house I started with some friends from the Bay
Some people do seem to have the capacity to take on class loads like this person described while still managing a social life. The university I went to essentially requires engineering students to take more than 5 classes a semester and some of them were incredibly social.
While I agree this person frames it like they've hacked the system by doing something they're not the first to do it's definitely uncommon to have a masters degree by 21.