Holy crap, that sounds almost exactly like my college experience except I dropped out after my major/department was cut from the university. As far as "getting

Holy crap, that sounds almost exactly like my college experience except I dropped out after my major/department was cut from the university. As far as "getting by" and laziness as a learned behavior, I always worked hardest on my hobbies throughout K-12, so as an adult I've gotten to the point where my hobbies have become my careers. I started building PCs and running Linux on my own in High School, along with playing music, so now I'm a software engineer/musician. Software is one of the few careers where you can go on an insane research binge on a whim and actually be praised for it, and performing music is one of the only things that I've ever done that fully quiets my mind. Something about the adrenaline of being on a stage really helps with my ADHD-Inattentive type; guess it's just like a stimulant. "Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life", etc