Dropping out, failing an entrance exam, changing direction after three years, graduating in a field you will never practice: these endings are rarely official, and they leave a taste of failure you do not always dare to talk about.
The Old Campus is the tombz district where you bury them without shame. A bachelor that did not hold, a master done to please someone, a prep year that left marks, an orientation dream that did not survive reality. The point is not to laugh at it, but to admit it existed, that it mattered, and that you are allowed to move on.
Who rests on the Old Campus
The "Studies & degrees" category: repeated years, failed exams, abandoned theses, schools left, default orientations, competitive exams missed by one point. Each grave keeps the years spent at the desks and the epitaph of what they did (or did not) bring.
Categories buried here : Studies & degrees
Worth a visit in this district
The Old Campus
Walk into lecture hall B at night, facing Madame Rature, a skeleton professor with a red pen, and sit a make-up exam. You leave with a State Diploma in Applied Forgetting to share.
A few graves from this district
My PhD
« Five years. 200 pages. Three people will ever read it. Two of them were on the jury. »
Ma première année de médecine
« Beaucoup de café, peu de sommeil, un concours raté. Reconvertie heureuse, finalement. »
Epitaph ideas
Here rests my law degree. It lasted a semester and a half.
Prep school, 2015 to 2017. Two years of my life and a solid dose of depression.
Graded "good enough". Good enough to do nothing with this degree.
Frequently asked questions
What to do after dropping out?
First, do not confuse a stage that ends with a personal failure. Many interesting paths start with a detour. Marking the end, even symbolically, lets you look at what comes next more calmly.
Can you bury a degree you do not use?
Yes. A degree that is no use in your current life can very well have its grave, with a tender or ironic epitaph. It is not disowning it, it is putting it in its place.
Are Madame Rature's make-up exams serious?
Not at all. They are five absurd questions, a fake four-hour timer and an imaginary diploma you can share. There is nothing at stake, just a little school nostalgia.
Bury my studies
Studies, degrees and forgotten exams.
Bury here