[pastaguy1]

Never considered the speedrun route, but I also had someone (a prof. in my case) tell me something that changed the way I viewed college/the curriculum.

Paraphrasing, he said, "don't get too wound up with the syllabus, treat class and deliverables as touchpoints for your own self study". I guess it may have the same net result as "read the text" or "study outside of class" for some, but that view of things really resonated with me.

It felt a lot healthier to me to work in this way. I went down whatever rabbit holes interested me. It's not very efficient in terms of grades and stuff, but I had the time back then anyway, and I never really felt like I was cramming or grinding. When exams rolled around, I usually felt like I was in decent shape, just needed to do a little adjustment based on class hints or whatever.