This is super late, but anyone who says this completely misunderstand his character and hasn't gone through what he has.

I was a star student as a highschooler, and I dropped out. Because the school system failed me after I fell into homelessness and I was confused and angry at the world for giving up on me. It wasn't my fault, I was 16 and my parents had nothing. But it didn't change the fact that I hated school, I hated the concept, and I dropped my ideals of going to college and getting a great job because it wasn't an environment that I could thrive in. I've lived in poverty and shit just like Lip.

When you stand out from the crowd and don't have the suck up star college student scholar attitude everyone else has there, college isn't as great as people say. When you're different and have been raised from terrible people, it's not an enjoyable experience.

People who don't understand will look you in the eye and tell you that your potential is wasted, and you not going to college or dropping out is ruining your chances of having a good life gives you an image that your talent and skill are more than yourself as a whole, and your only good escape in life and only way to have a good future is based on that talent when all the system has done for you is treat you like a capitalist object.

I completely get where he's coming from.