TWIXTERS. University students and recent graduates are considering the implications of having many choices to make, while discovering what the choices are under uncertainty about what the consequences will be.

Between-time for undergraduate and graduate school has lengthened because students are taking more time to understand exactly what their chosen profession entails...

As Lev Grossman recently noted in TIME magazine, "twixters"- those making the transition from education to career- are not lazy although they may still live with their parents and have unstable personal and professional lives.

One student recognizes the tradeoff.

"You can make all the money in the world, but if you’re miserable for 30 years, what’s the point?"

Photon Courier has also noted the phenomenon, and offers a suggestion.

And one of the reasons why we spend such vast sums of money and human energies on higher education is precisely to give the students an exposure to a cultural framework extending behond the popular culture of the moment.

Yet, it's probably true. For most college graduates, the popular culture probably remains the only culture.

It seems to me that university professors and administrators should either disagree with this statement, or be profoundly disturbed by its truth.

True enough. To expose students to something resembling a common culture, let alone a higher culture, would be to challenge many of their preconceptions, as well as to call into question much of the mindless "inclusion" rhetoric popular with educational "theorists." However, the recognition by students that doing what somebody else thinks is right, no matter how miserable it makes you, is a healthy development.