> Solo cup culture flourishes because college is simply a pay-to-play credentialing service.
If this were the case, why do many spend grueling over hundreds of LeetCode problems? If the credential was truly enough, we wouldn't have to be grilled in interview processes.
> The university has been in crisis for almost a century, and in 1948 Richard Weaver was already warning that universities had “turned into playgrounds for grown-up children or centers of vocationalism and professionalism.”
At one point in college, I held 3 jobs with the impossible task of trying to stay out of debt (I didn't) by working jobs that paid no more than $10/hour on a $30,000 tuition bill. Is the fault of the university that they became corporatized? There would be no crisis if folks had the time to study.