You don’t have to carry the guilt of all those students and all that debt. It’s not on your shoulders. That guilt belongs to the school, to the students themselves and their advisors and parents, to the system that drives people to pursue further education, any kind of further education, to the culture, and the banks, and more besides. They can all help you carry that guilt, and once you realise that you played a tiny role, perhaps it won’t feel so crushing.

Guilt, like pride, grows out of an overblown sense of one’s own importance. Ease up on that: it’s not on you. You learned about what you don’t want to do with your life, and today you can choose something else. How wonderful.