Comment by SCdF

One thing I find surprising about this is the overlap between a) university is getting more and more expensive and b) students are caring less and less about using that time usefully.

Is this because they know you are going to grade on a curve? So it's a sort of cooperative race to the bottom?

Otherwise you would think that the extreme expense of university would make people work harder, and care more.

Sidenote: I graduated university in 2005. Facebook came out for the general public in 2006. It's weird to think I was the last graduate class without generalised social media and smartphones.