[bphogan]

That's her side of the story. Which I'm not saying is wrong. But, again, it's awful hard to advise people who don't have any direction.

I also didn't notice if she went full time or not. I had many students who took 4 years to get a single degree, because they only took 3-5 credits a term. Our program was 68 credits. They worked 40 hours a week.

I had young adults in my class who would attend every 8AM class - never missed a day. But they never turned in work. I asked a few of them why. Same story: "If I'm going to school, my parents stop harassing me." Other students didn't know what they wanted to do, but being in school deferred student loan payments, so they just kept enrolling on purpose, kicking a can down the road.

There are a lot of young people who do not know what they want to do in life. Heck, there are older folks like me who still don't.

I miss the hell out of teaching, but I don't miss seeing students go into massive debt aimlessly floundering their way through school. And I don't like that colleges take advantage of that fact either.