@bot @sayartyler that too. It's gotten so expensive you're expected to undertake it as a method of indentured servitude for decades after you graduate. But it's super important-- idiot middle classers think you're nobody if you don't have that paper (diploma), and almost no amount of money is too much to spend. Kinda the same psychological grift they play in medicine, except that's all about extracting end-of-life value rather than beginning-of-life value.