You know you got it good though, when they make computer games modelling (not by all means 100%) your daily job and there are people spending their free time trying to live in your image (albeit on a PC) and emulate your work!!
well,a day at uni, were you are for a few hours a day, isnt comparable to pilot school,half of a students year is leisuretime
A few hours a day wont get you a degree in a proper dicipline! likewise if you treat half your year as leisuretime you arent likely to graduate!!
2.) Technically you can fail 50 exams( of course not always the same one,the same subject has to be finished after 4 attempst,and even then under sp.circumstances another attempt will be granted-> A lough for a pilot, do one bad sim and then onother and you know where you will be...
Well, fail an exam/get crap mark...will reflect on your degree class...which ultimately can make you unemployable and unable to progress academically! There is as much to lose by failing a module exam as there is an ATPL exam...i dont see the difference here. At good univerisities and in other "real" subjects, fail one, you can try again but is capped at 40%...fail after the retake and you get chucked off the course or must resit the year.
Pilot studies is more vocational than theoretical.
Im not belittling pilots at all (in fact, you are my heroes) but dont underestimate and simplify university! An ATPL does not equal a degree!