Also because there is not enough time in a day for a full practice and workout in the early morning, three to five hours of class, eight hours of wage labor, and still enough time to study, complete assignments, feed yourself and wash your ass and still wake up in time to do it the next day.

So either they're lying, or this person went to college part time and graduated in 6+ years, or they worked full time for three months out of the year and part time the rest, or they just didn't learn anything and picked a major that allowed them to graduate without doing virtually any work. What a rosy outlook for the public education system!!

Edit: or they ordered doordash/Uber eats every day on Dad's credit card, in which case thanks for subsidizing my education as well

They can't help telling on themselves because so many of them actually believe as the Main Character that their heroic tale of rags to riches needs all the fine details like the small loan of a million dollars

no more half measures walter

No they drive a very manly truck with their wrap-around oakleys and that makes them very hard men.

I did exactly that: I had a full time job, a part time job, and 12-15 units a semester because that was the only way for the former to pay for the latter as well as my living expenses.

And it wrecked my health for years.

I would not wish the same on anyone, except maybe in a way for bootlickers pretending it's a sustainable and reasonable expectation for students to go through.

Yes, and applying for scholarships and grants.

Don't want college students having free time to organize against things like war, gotta crush em.

Those social opportunities are better at getting set later in life than the degree.

Networking is more powerful than a resume. Yeah it’s basically a form of nepotism. Being in a frat in college is likely to give a better outcome than working full time to graduate without debt.

Yeah like, these days your degree is only "worth" something on the job market if you've got the internship/job/research experience to complement it. Ignoring that necessity so you can work more hours and act all smug when you graduate debt-free is akin to tying your shoelaces together at the start of a ten mile hike. Good way to ensure that your "useless degree" is indeed economically useless to yourself.

Edit: by lib logic anyway, hope that's clear

Yeah. I think one of the most depressing parts of my education was a professor (who went to the same university) telling me how different the student experience was 40 years ago. He told stories about storming each other's dorms, off-milk water balloon fights, breaking into the canteen kitchens to cook after nights out, operating all sorts of delicate science equiptment extremely drunk, etc etc etc. The sort of college shenanigans you see in films and assume are made up. Then he asked what the equivalent is for my friends. I had to explain that we studied ourselves into ill health and went into crunch for weeks for the sake of getting top grades, then tried to sleep or distract ourselves with videogames. Maybe go to a bar occasionally. It really illustrated that massive parts of my life aren't normal and shouldn't be normal.

Apparently this anxiety and constant demands of perfection are new. Its a generational thing. Its not normal to have never failed anything and be fucking paralyzingly terrified of ever doing so. He was so upset at how lame and depressing modern kids are, that the spirit of the university is apparently gone, but at least he had the decency to be upset at the culture rather than us. I wonder what it felt like before, if kids were freer?

And then in the next breath they'll complain about how when they were kids they were so wild, they partied and had fun, not like todays kids. And then, breath after that, they explain how any rule breaking should be the death penalty for children.

Massive tier hypocrisy.

"I survived cancer, so by god I am going to lobby against any cure for it because fuck you"

A man who survived by crawling over the bodies of those who didn't make it.

I wonder what they spray on the boot leather cause it must taste good

I felt a deep crawling sense of dread when "multitasking" became a faddish buzzword in the 90s and everyone was expected to do multiple things (poorly, as it turns out).

Yeah have OCD and I can't work more than 10 hours a week on top of studies. I tried and I had a massive meltdown. I ended up having to take out loans because not doing so wasn't an option for me.

America in particular has ingrained into its people this insidious notion that poverty is voluntary. Those people who need food stamps? Bums, all of them, they just don't care enough to get better paying jobs.

Circumstances such as the socioeconomic status you were raised in, physical/mental health, your ethnicity are completely irrelevant (hell, sometimes ethnicity is used as a means of insisting that is why someone is 'lazy', rather then reflecting on how a person's race impacts the entire manner in which society interacts with them)

language!