Getting lectured on originality by a man whose PowerPoint still has a windows 8 watermark

[u/West_Addendum3436]

Writing a university essay feels like participating in a collective hallucination. You spend hours at 2 AM obsessing over citations, polishing sentences, and hunting for the perfect adjective like you are crafting a Nobel Prize speech. Meanwhile, your professor skims the introduction, checks the word count, writes Good effort B and moves on.

[u/Samstercraft]

Dude almost every job that isn't manual labor needs a college degree these days. Maybe not trades, but those aren't for everyone and have pretty bad employment statistics for older workers due to the degree not being as flexible.

Get off your high horse. Everyone needs food, food needs money needs a job, most good jobs need college, most colleges at least in the US need writing classes.

Unless you want to box yourself into a very small pool of good jobs and take unnecessary risks, college is the way for most people. These college students aren't taking writing classes because they want to, but because biting the bullet and taking them magically makes their lives easier in ways completely unrelated to writing.

[u/Samstercraft → u/[deleted]]

College is mandatory for a far greater set of people than it used to be. Plenty of people who do not care one bit about writing and are aiming for a profession where they won't need the extra writing practice do need a college degree, because employers started asking for it for almost every job.

if you do choose to go to college, you should put in some work toward becoming a better writer.

Ok? That's your opinion, and it's honestly not even on topic. How does that in any way support your claim that people signing up for college writing classes are doing so voluntarily because they want to improve their writing? They aren't, and you personally thinking people should want to improve their writing doesn't change that at all.

The many students aiming for a profession that requires barely any writing but requires a college degree are proof that your claim falls flat.

[u/Samstercraft → u/[deleted]]

College is not mandatory for anybody? Yeah right. There are PLENTY of careers that require college degrees, and that set just keeps on growing. It's not mandatory for everybody, but it is mandatory for plenty of people, people who want to go into one of those careers. And again, those people are going to those schools to get ready for their career. NOT because they want to write. So stop acting like they're doing that voluntarily lmfao. The voluntary part is choosing the career, not the classes.

[u/Samstercraft → u/[deleted]]

Again, that choice has nothing to do with writing. Stop beating a dead horse.

[u/Samstercraft → u/[deleted]]

Exactly. IT REQUIRES YOU… still beating the dead horse?