This is why I recommend going to community college for lower division...

it is cheaper and the teachers actually teach.

People are shocked - shocked! - learn that half of all students are not learning anything during their first two years of college.

We have to sit through lectures by our incomparable elected officials and our distinguished administrators telling us how many people the state needs by such and such a year with college degrees. We know how to give degrees. We’re good at that. But an education? Even God could not compensate for the lack of skills, the lack of interest, and the lack of raw talent your son brought to us. Social promotion is not restricted to high schools any more. After all, somehow we have to pay for all those buildings, athletic facilities, and shopping malls that so impressed you.


Now your son is carrying a load of debt that he can’t pay off, and he can’t find a meaningful job because he really has no skills that translate into the marketplace. He never committed himself to the discipline, rigor, and fortitude it takes to get a meaningful education. He didn’t know what to do with himself; you didn’t know what to do with him, and you thought he should have a college experience. He did, in the sense that four years of recreational sex, hard drugs, and bars that are open late into the night provided him with a college experience.

You would have been better off giving him the cash to invest and sending him to the Caribbean or Vegas for several weeks every year where he could have indulged his sexual appetites and legally smoked ganja. Financially you would have both been ahead. So too would we.

This graph in this article showing that 50% of a college student's time is spent socializing confirms this insight.

For a "when I walked to school the snow was up to my neck" observation, when I was in college taking 18 to 20 units regularly and operating an appliance repair business, I could never figure out what the people taking 12 units were doing with their time.

Well, apart from smoking ganja and spending their parents' money, that is.