Yes I would love to be empathetic, but I also can't also help feel some amount of bitter sweetness because I've seen some HORRIFIC behavior resulting from the way the major has been gamed and milked as students from top universities saturated the game with min-maxing (moreso at Berkeley than Stanford just because of population and economics involved). Yes I know this existed before and this is nothing new, and arguably as a microcosm it accurately reflects the industry experience itself.

But gosh darn it, this is computer science we're talking about, in college no less! Where hath the passion gone?! I apologize for the soapbox.