Anonymous wrote:Seeing/hearing from neighbors, acquaintances & relatives that their 2024 kids are graduating next month instead. WHY? You’re only young once! It’s crazy to me. There’s no way this is a money thing. It’s so sad. And these kids probably stifled their professional prospects due to not having time to do multiple internships. Why such a rush to grow up?

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Anonymous wrote:Obviously people keep learning and doing fun things after college graduation. But in the FT work world, you only get two weeks of PTO a year. You don't have summers and all those long school breaks once you start a full time job. And being a student isn't a full time job in the sense that you don't spend 40 hours/week sitting in classes or labs. Most of it is spent on your own, and you can often select the times and days when you are in class. It really is a different phase of life that will never come again. There's no need to rush through your youth unless you're financially strapped. And most people have more to learn after their junior year of college. Practicing writing some more papers, preferably a honors thesis if you're all done with requirements for your major, or doing a double major are ways to improve your skills and make yourself more attractive to grad schools and employers.

As someone who hires college grads, I would look upon a degree earned in three years as inferior to one earned in four. I'd also wonder if you're socially inept or uncomfortable with your peers because why else would you skip your fun senior year?

“Fun senior year” I genuinely have no idea what you’re talking about. You must’ve went to a trust fund kid LAC.

Anonymous wrote:Obviously people keep learning and doing fun things after college graduation. But in the FT work world, you only get two weeks of PTO a year. You don't have summers and all those long school breaks once you start a full time job. And being a student isn't a full time job in the sense that you don't spend 40 hours/week sitting in classes or labs. Most of it is spent on your own, and you can often select the times and days when you are in class. It really is a different phase of life that will never come again. There's no need to rush through your youth unless you're financially strapped. And most people have more to learn after their junior year of college. Practicing writing some more papers, preferably a honors thesis if you're all done with requirements for your major, or doing a double major are ways to improve your skills and make yourself more attractive to grad schools and employers.

As someone who hires college grads, I would look upon a degree earned in three years as inferior to one earned in four. I'd also wonder if you're socially inept or uncomfortable with your peers because why else would you skip your fun senior year?

Anonymous wrote:To save $85k. It is so expensive these days. I know many kids that finish undergrad early and often go into a grad program.

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Anonymous wrote:School just isn’t fun anymore. It’s not about exploration or making friends. From one year before they start tracking math in your neighborhood, it’s about executive function and taking all the right classes. And it never ends. You might as well stop spending money and start making money, because you’re not having fun anyway.

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There isn’t a lot of room for creative exploration in school any more, either at the college or HS level. It is all about the grade grind. That makes it boring and if you are going to grind you might as well get money for it.

Are the kids happier once they start working?

Anonymous wrote:Obviously people keep learning and doing fun things after college graduation. But in the FT work world, you only get two weeks of PTO a year. You don't have summers and all those long school breaks once you start a full time job. And being a student isn't a full time job in the sense that you don't spend 40 hours/week sitting in classes or labs. Most of it is spent on your own, and you can often select the times and days when you are in class. It really is a different phase of life that will never come again. There's no need to rush through your youth unless you're financially strapped. And most people have more to learn after their junior year of college. Practicing writing some more papers, preferably a honors thesis if you're all done with requirements for your major, or doing a double major are ways to improve your skills and make yourself more attractive to grad schools and employers.

As someone who hires college grads, I would look upon a degree earned in three years as inferior to one earned in four. I'd also wonder if you're socially inept or uncomfortable with your peers because why else would you skip your fun senior year?