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A big reason for going to college is socializing so.. makes no sense to go now.

I have a son in college. The services that his school offers are greatly reduced, but the tuition continues to climb year on year.

If his major/career had the choice of degree vs work, the latter would be a really good choice right now.

I believe the socializing/networking thing is over-sold unless you go to a top-tier uni where students may be from wealthy families and are therefore well socialized, or do something non-cs like business studies. Everyone i studied with were introverts (gamer-types). High school was way better for socializing. Oh and there were like 2 females total in all of my CS classes.

> Everyone i studied with were introverts (gamer-types).

Trick is to find ways out of the engineering department. I did Latin as an optional, and I was in a sports team where nobody was an engineer. Plus presumably you aren't living in an engineering-specific halls?

study in the education library...

Socialising, sport, arts, drama, many people meet their spouse at university, yeah lots of reasons that don't apply any more.

You can do all of those without incurring crippling debt.

Obviously, but a university packages it up into one integrated community. You can't pay to create a community. Maybe that's worth it to you or maybe it isn't. I spent eight years in university in total and really enjoyed it.

No no no, the decline predates covid by many years.

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