.....”When I went to college in the late 1960s, it was the thing to do. Just about everyone in my middle-class community did the same....”
we must be of the same generation....when I graduated from high school, you either went to college or waited to be drafted to participate in the Southeast Asian War Games... what good is a degree in 18th Century East African Lesbian Poetry when you are then thousands of dollars in debt and the only job you can find is “Would you like fries with that order...??...”
I went to college in the second half of the 60s ‘cause I wanted to be an electrical engineer. I also was forced to take a three-course liberal arts “penetration”…I chose history. Was also “forced” to take English.
As a result, I graduated with a useful degree, skill set and a strong understanding of how our culture developed. Also three battle stars for fighting three riots as a Guardsman on my own damned campus!
I went back for an MBA, five-years later to develop interpersonal and communications skills in order to enhance my engineering skills.
The most useless class I had was Psychology! I only got a C because I took the professor to task in the lecture for joking about electro-shock treatments.
We're from the same era. I graduated high school in 1971. That summer, I enrolled in college. The draft ended in '73. We withdrew from SV in '75.
I ended up with three degrees. The first two served me well. The last was a business degree with accounting major. I thought I would retire and open a CPA firm. I spent a season giving income tax assistance to low income wage earners.
I discovered that I had no interest in dealing with the brand of human beings currently populating earf. I never opened a CPA firm.
East African Lesbian Poetry is pretty good! Don’t knock until you try it.