How Entitled Are Today’s Yale Undergraduates? This Entitled.
2nd October 2019
Mr. Diaz’s attitude would, of course have been absolutely inconceivable to members of earlier classes at Yale. Students from humble backgrounds fortunate enough to have been admitted to this elite college in earlier (and better) days thanked their lucky stars at having been given the priceless opportunity to move upward in the world and were only too happy to work hard to earn it.
Unlike Dave, I didn’t have to work while at Yale — because I had spent the previous six years (during the Vietnam War) in the Navy, qualifying for the GI BIll (which covered about a third of it) and saving my money (which covered another third), as well as factory work over the summers. Yale also had (and probably still has) a generous student loan program, so I spent the ten years after I graduated paying off the remaining third.