Half the people in college pay other people to do their work, outright plagiarize someone else's essay, or collaborate and copy each other. As someone who graduated college with honors, I'll be the first to say California colleges don't promote learning. Or at least, many classes do not. The best thing it provides is structure, a mandatory schedule and grading system that forces you to be there. But they do not encourage independent thought. I actually ended up basically being an informal tutor cause I had to teach classmates stuff without doing their work for them. I could not stand how it was more about kissing the right ass instead of learning. The only reason I'm not with a huge company right now is cause it was unbearable schmoozing up to the damn corporate elites that went there to recruit. Maybe I'm not making as much money as I could have but working in a California corporation would make me kill myself. It'd be like plugging yourself straight into the leftist hive mind.