Blech. "Do your time" is right. Just about every recent college grad I talk to complains about how miserable their student loans are making them. Things like,

Blech. "Do your time" is right. Just about every recent college grad I talk to complains about how miserable their student loans are making them. Things like, "I would leave this job and do something more interesting if I didn't have student loans." If education was cheaper and didn't cause that misery, I'd be a much bigger fan of it. But it's not, so now all but the richest and most talented hate it. The problem with these sorts of discussions is that everyone seems to apply their engineering mindset to everyone else's. You may be smart and successful, but those who aren't will end up with student loans and very little to show for it. All because everyone in every inch of their lives told them to go. As engineers, we need to consider them, too.