[jokoon]

Got into a video game programming private school, sneaking into 2nd year directly because I was good, was not accepted for the next year.

Apparently, it my fault of not trying to reach out to other people for building that school project. I'm more of an introvert, I was already taking anti depressant for 2 years. I'm at the opposite side of a narcissist. Apparently it's a bad thing in society, but nobody really talk about it either.

I was told things like "humans are a social species" and "teamwork is the most important thing in business and IT" etc.

I doubt being an extravert type makes a good programmer. There need to be a balance. But if you teach people programming, why not teach them teamworking too, or just gives bonus to students for their strength without making the teamwork aspect mandatory ?

[jiggy2011]

Going directly into second year is probably a bad idea from a socialisation point of view. When you turn up in college in year one, nobody knows anybody so people have to form peer groups from scratch, thus it's easy to make new friends.

If you go into second year these peer groups are already established and it becomes harder to slot yourself in.

[geedy]

Definitely true to a certain degree. But I also think that having the experience of being forced into new friendships in first year gives people more confidence to meet people later. Its a snowball effect of sorts.

[rhizome]

The school people were idiots, but narcissism doesn't have anything to do with introversion and extroversion.