Even in the '90s, I heard that a large percentage of CS undergrads were on prescription meds, such as Ritalin. A much larger percentage than you'd think would

Even in the '90s, I heard that a large percentage of CS undergrads were on prescription meds, such as Ritalin. A much larger percentage than you'd think would have an abnormal condition. I didn't ask many students about it, but my guess at the time was that it was for performance enhancement above typical human capability. And this was a bit before the current FAANG pressure to spend lots of time on Leetcode memorizing and rehearsing, in addition to coursework -- CS students only needed to get through their time-consuming lab-heavy courses, and then they could get a good job. (This was slightly before CS became one of the very high paying upper-middle careers, like medicine and law, which seemed to put high-stakes demands on undergrads' school performance.) Large numbers of people drugged-up for years, simply to pass status-career gatekeeping, doesn't seem like a great situation.