Laugh if you must, but things are getting harder for students these days. While going to university for your parent’s generation might have been an exception to the rule, more and more people are expected to apply for entry-level jobs with at least a bachelor’s degree. The paradox of this shift from vocational school and life experience to post-secondary education is that more and more students are graduating each year with the same qualifications. So it’s entirely possible that you can, in fact, study Russian literature for four years and be qualified only to make coffees or stock books.