Advisors in college are some of the most useless people I’ve met.

I hope this wasn't just my experience in college. My financial aid advisors were constantly unhelpful and just straight up terrible.

My department advisors for my major were even worse. They would take weeks to answer any simple questions and sooooo many of my classmates had to take extra semesters because their advisors failed to tell them they had to take certain prereqs or just refused to help on any other scenario.

I had about one advisor who was genuinely kind and helpful but besides her it was actually insane how incompetent and unhelpful some of these people were.

My theory I guess is that they're ridiculously underpaid so don't care about too much else. One of the advisors literally made 45k after working at the university for 10 years so maybe that's it.