Seems most young snowflakes see college, not as prep for a future career, but as four years of party time and entry into the cult of the elite.
There are way too many options to prepare for a well-paying career that another useless degree in philosophy, or “women’s studies”.
There’s countless tech schools, the military, or just on the job training to learn a trade, without years of hard payments on a “student loan”.
The young “brains full of mush” don’t seem to realize how fast that four years actually goes by, and suddenly they’re graduating with an unmarketable “skill”.
I’m retired now, but in business years, I’ve had to fire more “college graduates” for incompetence than anyone else.
30 plus years ago, I drove our oldest son age 18 to a parent/student day at a California State College,
Every professor and asst dean tried to hammer into our heads that it was impossible to get a simple 120 hour degree in 4 years. It really took 5-6 years or longer.
On the way home, I was driving and he was thinking about the coeds and beer parties on mom and dad for 5-6 years. I would hold 4 fingers and ask him how many fingers I had up.
The first couple of times, he would grin and say "4"..
On the third time, he asked what I was telling him.
I said the answer simple. "We would pay for 4 years of college, and anything afterwards would be on his dimes."
Then, I dropped the Non Negotiable bomb on him and said that it was not Negotiable.
He ended up with a double engineering degree and a lot of business accounting hours. We ended up paying for 5.5 years, as he had about 150 hours when he was graduated and zero bs courses.
His son will be heading to college next year, and he has gotten the same 4 finger exercise unless he becomes an engineer. Then, they will negotiate some extra paid time.