"All Hat...No Cattle"
It is almost like a new saying can emerge these days something like...
College Ring...Ain't worth a thing.
or
College bills...no skills.
More importantly, the A&M grad had a real opportunity staring her in the face for four years and she failed to acknowledge it. She could have chosen one of the ROTC programs, gotten a military commission, and now be employed to learn real skills that will have value after she leaves the military. Plenty of liberal arts majors have been down that path over the years and have gotten good jobs because of those management skills from the military experience.
At a minimum, you no longer get an employer response about lacking experience.
“College bills...no skills” is incredibly good and so accurate.
I sat in my university library a year ago working on my undergraduate degree (I graduated with a 4.0 GPA) and heard a student at another table talk about her 45% grade on an exam, and then declare “This my last class and all I need a D becuase D mean D-gree.”
Translation: “All I need is to pass this class with a “D” to earn my degree.” And my degree looks the same as hers. So what was the point of doing the work I did and earning the marks I did, when mediocrity and the bare minimum to earn the passing grade is all that’s really required?
Handing out degrees to people like this is a part of what is making them functionally useless today. They mean less, yet the price keeps going up.