I Took Credits Assuming I Would Collapse, and Ended Up Skipping a Grade

I live my life on the assumption that my health will fail.

That is why I tend to get my work done a little ahead of schedule, and I have even written a manual for when I collapse and put it in the office safe.

"I'm feeling well today, so I'll help out my future self."

That feeling has probably been ingrained in my body for a long time.

I realized only now that this feeling had been with me since my student days.

I quit the first university I entered after just one year.

Because of that, I had a strong feeling that it would be a problem if I couldn't graduate from the second university I entered.

I might not be able to keep attending halfway through again.
What if I drop out again?

That anxiety was always there.

So I thought, "I'll stockpile credits while I'm still healthy."

I took as many classes as I could.
On days when I felt well, I diligently went to university.

As a result, for some reason, I had finished taking almost all four years' worth of credits in three years.

Then, around the end of my third year, a letter arrived from the university.

"You are eligible to skip a grade."

It was written there.

Huh?

Skip a grade?

I was just taking credits ahead of schedule thinking, "so it won't matter if I can't attend anymore," but it seems I had reached a state where I could skip a grade.

When I took the graduate school entrance exam just like that, I passed.

Somehow, without even really understanding it myself, I skipped a grade and advanced to the master's program.

However, when I tried to take the national examination later, an unexpected situation occurred.

“Since you dropped out of university, you are not eligible to take the exam.”

Huh???

Because I had skipped a grade and advanced to graduate school, my university status was treated as a "dropout" rather than a "graduate."

Even though I had earned a master's degree.

So that's how the system works...

Ah, but come to think of it, I do remember reading an explanation that said, "You will be treated as a university dropout."

I thought that had nothing to do with me, so I pushed it to the back of my mind.

In the end, after I turned 30, I transferred into the third year of a correspondence university and graduated properly.

After that, I also obtained my national qualification.

I ended up taking quite a long detour.

But looking back now, I think I was just desperate back then.

I was trying to help my future self while I still had the energy.

Then, more than 20 years later, I had the opportunity to work with professors and graduate students from the university I had skipped a grade at in a research group.

I told the graduate students this:

“Please tell your juniors that I don't recommend skipping grades.”

In life, you never really know what will be useful or what will turn out to be foreshadowing.

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The story of how I quit my first university after one year is here
“I missed being a classmate of Yo Oizumi by 1 day”

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