My first day of uni, I received these two t-shirts designed by the student group.
While I completely forgot about the top one, I keep the bottom one near my heart. While I found it amusing, I did not find it to be true. I did learn a lot during these years, and I gained much more than the degree (which is only required for the Portuguese bureaucratic system where Simon Peyton Jones couldn’t even get a position as Assistant Professor).
Now 19 years later, I no longer find it to be funny. I feel the scholarly spirit is dying and young people do not care about learning or knowledge. They care only about grades and getting the degree. And GPT is the TLA that takes them from the donkey without the diploma to the donkey with the diploma.