Intellectual enough

I am not stimulated intellectually enough.

Studying at the university for my master’s degree is just not challenging. 
And that is not because I am too smart or too quick. I am struggling but there plenty of time to figure it out so the few tasks gets finished. It just isn't demanding enough. There isn't enough to write and they do not give me enough to read. The other students read nothing, contribute nothing and all pass anyway. University publish reports about literacy problems. Introducing demands and not allowing all to pass is not discussed as a solution.

I should be grateful, I have dedicated this year to finish my masters degree and it looks easy to do.

But I also have expectations on my self to do a good job. I have an interested topic that I have read so so much about and I want to turn some of it into an academic thesis. But nobody seems interested. 
Few are worth my respect. Everything is last minute or too late or not at all.

I know, I know, I come out of a different world and generation. I have a different background and I have lived with high expectations on me and on others for a long long time (which I have not always fulfilled). 
But I have never had a job where there were so low expectations on me as at university. 

I could just chill and go through it living up to their low standards, graduate and then write a book instead. I could - if I could - which I could not. When have I ever been able to do that? Keep quiet and head down? Not ever. 

I could also just drop out. I don't need a degree at my age. I have my early retirement, Full Fat FIRE.
Honestly, I am only working through my bucket list. Finishing this degree is just a bucket item.

just

But not just

It's been on my list of dream things to accomplish since 1987. I really want to fulfil my own expectations.

I probably could start writing the book instead to keep me busy while writing half a page a week for school.
I probably should. And stop buying books.