Don’t Blame College Students for Feeling Adrift. I’m Right There With Them.

Mr. Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer who was on the staff of The Times for more than 25 years.

It’s sweetly customary for college students filing out of a seminar room or lecture hall to thank the professor who has just finished jabbering at them, as if all that verbiage were a favor rather than a job. I’m amused by it and grateful for it every time.

But my students this semester often murmur something else as well.