https://yasminnair.com/on-graduation
In the midst of a bad economy, it’s important to remember that “good economies” are the anomalies and always have been such in human history. No matter what you’re graduating with and from, everything you have done so far is and was worth it. There is no useless knowledge, and the world will make space for you and you will make it make space for you, even if you sometimes have to tap a window open or kick a door down.
It's really, really difficult to form a realistic assessment of one's own as to what this university education is actually "worth". On the one hand you have the philistine right-wingers whom I instinctively of course just give the finger, but who nonetheless tap into very real anxieties of my future prospects. On the other hand you have the university itself, who affirm and validate all my highest ideals, but where I also cannot ignore that in some sense they are a business and this is their advertising.
What do I know, ultimately, how close a message like the one above is to so-called reality; but I do get happy hearing things like this from time to time.