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When I began college, I was a huge "babyface" advocate of higher education: Everyone should try to go! You get grants; scholarships; friends; connections; etc.!
But as I became an upperclassman, I saw that others were given more resources and more rewards than me: Some classmates held multiple internships at once; whereas, I held none, because those others had been chosen instead-of me!
By the time I graduated, I had neither a job offer nor unemployment benefits to cushion the financial pain of being laid-off -- or "not re-appointed," per the weasel words of the human resources coordinator -- from my on-campus job. (The latter amounted-to a punishment simply for graduating.)
I officially "turned heel" when I posted a scathing critique of higher education in the Facebook thread for the Summerfest-Lite knockoff "celebration" that the university was hosting in late August of my graduation year.
I've been a higher education critic ever since! (And enrollment at my alma mater has plummeted to 1980s levels. Coincidence?)
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