Here is Vector, full of rage.
The world is full of people who do things because society makes them feel that they should, while completely forgetting or ignoring the purpose/meaning behind the things. I was always disappointed by my peers through grade school, and how they were there as a function of society, and not using it as a way to arm themselves with the tools our ancestors spent thousands of years discovering and building. More often than not, the reasoning behind finishing high school was "If you don't have a diploma, you can't get a well-paying job!" which, though true, is completely ignoring the reason they're there, and replacing that goal with an abstract and unfulfilling marker of success.
College isn't free from it either; if you ask the average student, they aren't studying in order to use that knowledge to improve the future, better the lives of those around them, or further their understanding of the field itself. They're in it for a well-paying career, and ideally one they might like. Abstracted rewards and markers of success (like using scores and degrees as a legal requirement for careers), have handily shifted our focus away from the goals of learning itself, and over to this sense of education as a means to a better income, or even just as a "thing you do".
Allowing your studies to get you a good job is fine, but if you ain't learning for the sake of learning itself, then you best reconsider what you're doing in a University.
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