> Nobody needs more ammunition to argue that kids these days are just faffing about. Well, I think a lot of them are. I don't think this (just) because I'm a c

> Nobody needs more ammunition to argue that kids these days are just faffing about. Well, I think a lot of them are. I don't think this (just) because I'm a crabby old guy. I think this because so very many of my classmates in college 40+ years ago were just faffing about, and because college enrollment has increased out of proportion to the population. A hell of a lot of my classmates seemed to have come to the school (not a great one, not necessarily a terrible one) to work out their late adolescence in a reasonably safe environment a comfortable distance from home.