[downerending]

Arguing in the other direction, if you mainly just need the sheepskin, this might be an unusually easy time to get one.

Personally, my college experience was mainly useful for discovering that my college experience wasn't going to be very useful for me.

(Mildly interesting: The author seems to be this woman. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/02/17/la-verne-seek...)

[gumby]

> , if you mainly just need the sheepskin, this might be an unusually easy time to get one.

It’s a good point: this year and next will have an unusually high percentage of pass/fail options, but networking will be quite restricted.

[500-degrees]

I've met 0 people to code with in college :(

[gumby]

That’s a shame; I’m have remained close friends with a couple of dozen dorm- and lab- mates even after 35 years. Even started a company with one 20 years ago.

And we were all non-gregarious nerds. I wonder if that is why?

My university was quite large, with about 4,000 undergrads and about the same number of grad students. My high school was about 40 students a year (240 total) and I am barely in contact with any of them.

[gentleman11]

She’s been run out of her job for political reasons using the excuse she used the term “assassinate” instead of “fire” to describe getting rid of somebody. It’s childish and the school should be liable for slander at this point

[baud147258]

It was a character assassination on the school's part

[downerending]

I see what you did there.

[hn_throwaway_99]

That article was Tiger-King-esque in that by the end of it I hated pretty much all the characters involved.