‘The world is rapidly evolving’: How Gen Z is rethinking the idea of college
Charlotte Lytton
September 5, 2023
It took just one semester for Rushil Srivastava to realize that college was not what he had hoped. “As a kid, you always imagine college will be a life-changing experience, and that your freshman year is where you’ll get a chance to discover yourself,” he said. Instead, he was forced to take classes online in the wake of COVID and faced a campus social scene that remained fractured. The computer-science major wound up dropping out of UC Berkeley in fall 2021, only a few months after he had enrolled.
Soon after Srivastava decided to launch a startup designed to help job seekers find work. Today, as most of his peers are starting their senior year of college, he’s got more than $1 million in venture-capital funding. “Most of my friends are just now finally getting adjusted, some better than others,” the now 20-year-old said. “The world is rapidly evolving — and so is the college experience.”
