Speaker B argues college isn't necessary for most people anymore. University makes sense only if you want the campus experience itself or need a degree for a specific job like medicine. The pandemic made the traditional college experience even less valuable.
Do you think going to college is necessary in today's day and age to be successful in life, whatever you deem as successful?
No. In a word, no. I mean, for me, it definitely had its advantages because before I was, you know, before I figured out what I was going to do long term, it allowed me to pretty much just jump into a job that was kind of decent money, even though it wasn't specific to my degree. They said you need a degree to have this job. I think that will become less and less anyway. The only reason anyone should ever go to uni is A, if they want the life experience of it and they, you know, actually are sure that they would get that, because a lot of people go to uni thinking they'd get that and then 2 years later COVID's been the thing and you've done fuck all at uni, right? Or B, if the degree is very specific to what they actually need to do and it's actually like they need to
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