My second ex-fiancee has been a professor at a smaller Division I university for 30+ years. I trust her when she says that the steady decline of the talents and abilities of virtually every incoming freshman class is more troubling than the one before. The current crop simply doesn’t want to work, is incapable of abstract thought, and seem to be stymied by the word “if” the days.
Thanks for this comment. Extremely revealing. Your fiancée proves everything I complain about all the time.