piece of paper represents 3 years of hard work , dedication , and at the end of the day it is proof that you are a hard working individual who is willing to take on the tasks that may be placed upon you in a job , and that you will complete those tasks honestly , on time , to a high degree of satisfaction . Wow you really ate up the rhetoric didn ' t you ? Colleges want to make money , a degree is just the carrot on the stick . Stop buying into the bullshit colleges sell you . <| sep |> Emotional abuse from my father . It started shortly after my parents seperated when the classic custodyproperty battles started . My first clear memory of it was when I got talked to at for telling my mother something . I wasn ' t allowed to eat that night . This continued for a long time with punishment rangeing from starving to shunning . This continued for years . I tried to leave multiple times but the family court would always force me to go back for visitation even at the behest of my then therapist to allow me to leave . The worst part is that he rarely yelled and never made phisical contact so it was nearly impossible to get anything done about it . I often wish he would have just hit me so I could have left . This left me with some nice emotional scars mostly revolving around not being good enough which leads to serious social anxiety and self confidence issues .