I had a best friend throughout HS/College who was extremely smart. He scored 32 on his ACT on his first try, breezed through AP courses and started college with

I had a best friend throughout HS/College who was extremely smart. He scored 32 on his ACT on his first try, breezed through AP courses and started college with tons of AP credits and enough tuition assistance that he was being paid a significant wage in excess grant and scholarship refunds just to be an undergrad. Unless he was just extremely awesome at hiding something from our circle of friends, for absolutely no apparent reason at all, by the second semester of college, he had all but stopped going to class, stopped doing homework, slept through early morning tests, etc, eventually losing his scholarships and failing out of school by his third semester. He was my roommate in the dorms, so I probably would have known if he was doing anything in excess that was directly interfering with his abilities to function, and we were enrolled in similar courses with similar course load, and I handled it fine. He just lost the motivation to continue college. The point is, is that people fuck up, people get depressed, people change what they place value in, even without drugs.