> I've often posited among friends in the industry that it's partly due to apathy and mismatched expectations. College students go into CS because they expect a

> I've often posited among friends in the industry that it's partly due to apathy and mismatched expectations. College students go into CS because they expect a good paying job, not because of any specific aptitude or interest. This is not unique to CS. I feel this is the general mindset among most people who go to college: "I get a degree and get a job" and is the reason for so many young people coming out of college with a 4 year degree and no job. Just getting a degree doesn't mean you are smart, curious, or driven. I have friends who got liberal arts degrees who are smart, curious, and driven and went on to have great careers and friends with business degrees who don't care and are unsurprisingly "underemployed" by their degree, but not by their personality and the way they live their life.