For people who burn out in high school, that's usually your first experience with it. The first time is always the worst, whether it happens in high school, college, or on the job.

Once you've already burned out once in high school, twice in college (once before and once after switching your major), and hit your breaking point at a job or two (regardless of whether you switch jobs, or careers, or just take a long vacation, or just spend six months kind of just putting in time at your job before you're ready to really try again) ... well, burning out still sucks, but you kind of get used to it, you know how to deal with it, and you know that eventually you're going to pick yourself up again.

But man, that first time, you really feel like a failure, like you're never going to amount to anything, and like you'll never be able to try again.

Of course even then it's a total crapshoot, but there's very little chance of that panning out in the state school.

I wonder how the math works out on that. Realistically, I would only think so many connections could be made at such high levels for any given class of students.