25 years old and deep in debt

[Ideologue]

Dear undergrads: Your degree was never intended to land you a job

So why do so many employers require one?

For the reasons he gave.  Good critical thinking.

Unfortunately, if you had critical thinking skills before going to college, you'd know what a crock this was.

[The Brain]

Good critical thinking... from going to college? Has this been shown to happen?

[Admiral Yi]

Good critical thinking... from going to college? Has this been shown to happen?

Compared to high school grads?  I would say so.

[The Brain]

Regurgitating Noam Chomsky rants doesn't count as critical thinking.

[Admiral Yi]

Understood.

[The Brain]

[garbon]

Actually I would say it does, Brain. Here I mostly remember that in high school, A papers largely just had to summarize arguments from sources in their bibliography. Very few of my high school papers had a clearly written and defended thesis as that simply wasn't what teachers were looking for.

[Maximus]

Regurgitating Noam Chomsky rants doesn't count as critical thinking.

Chomsky was a scientist before he descended into politics. The Chomsky Hierarchy of Formal Grammars is a fundamental of Computer Science.

So referencing Chomsky, which one might describe as "regurgitating Chomsky rants", can be a part of critical thinking.

[PDH]

Chomsky's linguistic work is also fundamental.  If one sticks to linguistics then Chomsky can be quite important, even if just regurgitated to highlight a point.  I might even call it critical thinking to separate his linguistics from his politics.

[CountDeMoney]

Havent heard a single mention of his politics in my linguistics course this semester.

[The Brain]

The vast majority of people don't have the brains for meaningful critical thinking. When they try we get stuff like Communism.

[mongers]

Havent heard a single mention of his politics in my linguistics course this semester.

[GOPtard]

It's subliminal.

[/GOPtard]

Besides it's unpatriotic to learn about language, one was good enough for the founding fathers, why can't you be happy with uncritically accepting the true meaning of the constitution.   

[Admiral Yi]

[Phillip V]

Millennials Face Uphill Climb

'Through analyzing about three decades of census data—from 1980 to 2012—the study found that on average, young workers are now 30 years old when they first earn a median-wage income of about $42,000, a marker of financial independence, up from 26 years old in 1980.

About a third of adults in their early 20s work full time, a proportion that rises to about half of adults in their late 20s. The labor-force participation rate for young people last year declined to its lowest point in about 40 years.'

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303643304579105450145516622.html

[Ideologue]

That conforms pretty exactly to my 30th year on Earth, yeah.

Unfortunately, not my 31st.