Yeah I've noticed some folks on the Fediverse are too quick to assume the entire world has ended.

I went back to college at arguably a terrible time. I had a child on the way (I literally started a semester the day after I returned from the hospital after his birth) and I was at times during the whole thing the sole breadwinner for my family after my wife got 3 concussions in as many months. It was hard in the moment to handle it all and keep up with everything but it was absolutely one of the best decisions I've made in my life. And now I can point to that and say "yeah I did that! I didn't know I could but I did it!"