Your anecdote seems to confirm a number of problems which are ravaging academia at large. Having gone through a master's myself, I think when we pushed two gen

Your anecdote seems to confirm a number of problems which are ravaging academia at large. Having gone through a master's myself, I think when we pushed two generations of children into college, we generally lowered the bar - across the board, effectively. And that's related to what's happening in the US today.