1) Some aspects are messed up, on a lot of levels.
2) Your accomplishments are still worth a great deal and finishing school is still preferable to dropping out.
3) Your schooling doesn’t define you. [b]You[/b] get to decide what does.
4) See #2’s reply. 🙂

I think all of the above... Having said that, my thoughts are "what do you do with them" after you've got them?

Academic accomplishments define nobody, but neither are they worthless.

They mean sure potential.

What are you going to do with what you have learned?

They are what you choose to make them.