Two of the college students from the front house were set to graduate from college this past semester but didn't, I found out when I bumped into one of them outside the other week (he had run home on break from his managerial job at the local Target to smoke up, and was leaning against his car parked out in front on the street, as rolls of marijuana scent just came off of him).
He also said his roommate was thinking of transferring to the local community college to complete a few classes there.
"We should really finish up but we're not," he was like.
"It's not like there's anything necessarily glorious waiting for you on the other side," I was like, and he seemed to agree, saying that the only real reason he has to finish up is so that both of his elderly grandmothers can see him graduate from college.
And these are STEM MAJORS at a nationally-recognized flagship state school.
What a huge f*cking youth malaise there is, nowadays.
One of my new coworkers at the (Thai) restaurant is a cool disaffected (Chinese-American) guy who is pretty nice, who said he was a physics major at that school but had to take time off because of how the pandemic messed with him, and now he's just taking classes at the local community college.
He also said he tries not to listen to the news, since it's bad for his mental health.
"Like Trump's taxes," he was like, "I just don't listen."
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