Uni is just over-sold and disappointing

[Greedybilly]

My lovely 19 year old has just finished Yr 1 of uni ( when did the courses end at Easter? What happened to term 3?)
She was unlucky with her flatmates who were awful to her and her course mates mostly commute.
Part time jobs are none existent and she's done umpteen trial cafe shifts only to be ghosted.
She had such high hopes and seems like a shadow of her former self. It does all feel like a massively over marketed business.
Anyone got any words of wisdom/happy endings??
Gutted for her and angry at all the hype and nonsense.

I'm not surprised by all the academics coming here having a go at you OP. Academics are at risk of losing their cushy final salary pension jobs because more and more people are talking about how poor value-for-money university is, and a lot of university staff have this holier-than-thou view of themselves and the "help" they provide to society. Meanwhile the unpaid student loan balance for England alone is £267 billion...

FYI Lunnie, as you may not be aware, USS hasn’t been a final salary scheme since 2016 i.e. for 10 years.

It’s still a good scheme, and a meaningful benefit, but it isn’t final salary.

I’m an academic and don’t have a ‘cushy final salary pension’. My pension scheme isn’t bad but it’s certainly not as you describe.
As an academic I’m never going to be a super high earner (unless I become a VC or PVC) so the decent pension is supposed to be the payoff!! But that has been eroded over time and I’ve still got 25 years until retirement 🤷‍♀️