>>8829
>I must take advantage of the national freebies whilst they still exist
Based. Exploit your government while you can, they will not care if you live or die anyway.
>On the other, could be soul crushing to start again at day 1.
Personally if I could I would, even do my whole (same) degree from scratch.
Unless you're doing it like wholly remote it's just fun to meet young-ish people and talk with them, even though I'm not that decrepit to stand out immensely.
Also in uni you talk with smart people most of the time, that helps too.