Although I was nominally an English literature major, I emerged from college with huge gaps in my knowledge of the canon, and since then I've been trying to catch up.
And Xers endured lots of destruction: the first generation to graduate college with huge credit card and loan debt; who entered a workforce with meager, declining entry-level wages; who, when the tech bubble burst in 2000, had the highest percentage of assets invested in the stock market; who will spend an increasing amount of paychecks on Social Security and Medicare for boomers.
And yes, there is more materialism, more economic insecurity for young people going to college - huge tuition costs putting pressure on students to concentrate on studies and do well in school.
My college is huge, but for some reason it has been so hard to make friends without getting involved.
It's just that the gap between school and college is huge; it's when teenagers grow into young adults.
Mr. Fiske concurred, saying: "A lot of colleges have huge wait lists, because they don't want to end up with empty spaces.
The veterans and their federal benefits are being embraced by community colleges and huge campuses like the University of Texas, as well as by online schools like the University of Phoenix.
Colleges have huge operating budgets and the corporate world is seeing this as fertile territory to make money.
What's outrageous is many colleges have huge endowments that likely could subsidize much of the cost of getting a sheepskin.
Not surprisingly, colleges with huge endowments tend to have the least debt as most provide need blind financial aid - on the National University list we find Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Brigham Young, CIT and U of Houston in the top 5 and for liberal arts colleges, Berea, Louisiana State, UVA, Williams, Amherst, Pomona, etc...
"But where you go to college is a huge decision.
