Last step turnaround

I just found out that this singer/musician had gone to music school and was working toward some degree or some certificate or other and he withdrew within one credit of graduating and getting his degree or certificate or whatever, and I know that Ashley Judd did the same thing at UK, even though she is quite smart and loves Kentucky and is constantly being seen at UK basketball games and such and the camera loves her and she couldn't be a better ambassador for the school and the team, because she is smart and pretty and talented and she smiles in the crowd and the camera loves her and she is all dressed in royal blue, as is some Kentucky royalty and I wonder what made her quit at the precipice and I realize that it is not like she needs the degree to get parts in Hollywood and this same musician doesn't need the degree or certificate or whatever to play the piano or drums or write the music and the lyrics but geez what is the deal why couldn't they just complete the task and get the paper to hang on the wall and please their parents a little bit, but I guess their parents are pleased but you've got to wonder if something in the back of their minds is just wishing they had finished the task just for the sake of it, but on the other hand its their lives, respectively, and whose to say what they should have done, but on the other hand it is kind of a waste to get that far and just stop.