Why does the average person go to uni these days?

How do you know you couldn't do this sort of thing (whatever you mean in particular) if you weren't a student? Is it because you have more free time? Or we talking about a certain "salad days" kind of feeling?

Because if I wasn't a student I'd not have a student flat to return home to at nights (mornings, rather).

How's that really different from sharing a flat with other young people and not being a student?

Because I wouldn't have shared a flat with other young people if I wasn't a student.

Yes, you can do that when you're not a student. Maybe it's just that that it's harder to do (for money reasons) when you're only 18/19.

You can't share a flat with other young people if there are no flats in your town.

Plus, you're forgetting the whole student residence aspect.

How many towns don't have flats in them?

Did you grow up in a village in the Scottish highlands?

And secondly, do you mean the old "Young Ones" living in a squalid mess student cliche?

Bill Gates went to Harvard, you ****tard!

Not sure if someone already said so, but he did'nt actually finish it, and I think that's what OP meant .

Are uni prospectuses too much like a holiday camp brochures nowadays?

They did but even then it's not a logical example. The title was "Why does the average person go to uni these days?" then he mentions someone who went to one of the best universities in the world so even if they didnt get a degree it doesnt necessarily mean they dropped out because they couldnt handle the work or they didnt benefit from uni education. Plus he used an extreme example; as Gates did go to Harvard which represents less than 1% of those who go to uni and therefore isn't representative of the whole population

There are so many people at my Sixth Form who are only applying because they want to move out(Colchester is a ****hole), because there aren't many alternatives, or because the jobs market is horrible and they want to 'delay life' for three years. I don't agree with people who do this, but its their life.

My Sixth Form brainwashes you right from your first day that Uni is the only option. Anyone who isn't applying through UCAS is ignored until January. Someone in my class last year wanted to join the RAF and i remember my teacher saying ''If you aren't going to Uni what will you do then, dole queue?''. Sums it up really.

Oh well, I guess it helps the genuine students come out looking even better when there are so many inadequate failures around. What's winning without the losers eh?