University is like a health boot camp. You pay money to an institution, you work like crazy and you get something at the end. In a way you are paying to suffer. In fact the latter guarantees your body to feel good at least for a while.
The premise for going to university as a whole is about graduating. Yet graduating doesn’t guarantee you a job, which is typically what people go to university for. So is it a risk to pay an immense amount of money (and usually youth) for a piece of hope?
The good thing about graduating is the ability to relate to others. You will not be the only one who went through the difficult times. More importantly it is a means of succeeding in something in life. You can be satisfied by the fact that you have a degree in your hand and you worked for it.
The thing is someone was holding your hand all the way. You are under jurisdiction of a certain lecturer’s whims. This generally does not translate well to bringing true success in the real world, because it doesn’t involve following what others are doing.
The real benefit is what Randy Pausch called the head fake. You are really there to make lifelong friends and to try and do whatever you like without worrying that you were too old to risk things. Lectures are online these days, go and live your life.