Agreed on that! I've enrolled in and dropped out of so many things; Australian unis tend to front-load the first and second years with all the 'fun stuff' anyway, so I consider that I 'got what I paid for' from the uni experience, and have no regrets, even if I never did get any of those magic bits of paper that allegedly qualify one for 'an career'.

I've come to the cynical conclusion that universities and training providers, in Australia at least, have become at least 60 to 70 percent scam. They rake in gigantic stacks of money from the economy, simply by squatting at the gates of access to employment. And they churn out vast quantities of expensive degrees in class attendance and rote regurgitation, without any regard to what society or the economy actually needs, simply in order to maximise revenue.

Something's gotta give, and I hope AI might be the last straw that does the trick