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Upon being reunited with several classmates, Joshua Thompson ’15, who in nine months will have some $80,000 of student loan debt and be unemployed, shouted, “Seniors!”
“This is our year,” proclaimed Thompson, apparently unaware he would be graduating into a near-nonexistent job market, ultimately rendering him unable to find employment, let alone anything high-paying enough to put a dent into the debt he will have accumulated over the course of his college career. “We’re gonna be kings.”
Thompson’s comments were met with cheers and high-fives by his friends, who will likewise spend the next two semesters pleasantly ignorant of their own growing loan debt and lack of job prospects, opting instead to celebrate and drink, as though spending thousands of dollars on a supposedly world-class education that will still leave them broke and unemployed were a festive occasion.
“2015 or die, am I right?” asked Thompson.
Earlier that day, Thompson’s father James Thompson dropped him off on campus, saying, “Your mother and I love and support you, Josh. We know that you’re going to go on to do amazing things, and we can’t wait to see what they are.”
