what do i know?

I wonder if anyone else thinks its strange that we spend the four years we're in college never in one place for more than a few months at a time and then are expected to get our lives together once we graduate. If I had a dollar for the amount of times I've been asked what I'm going to do once I graduate since the start of this year I'd be able to pay my rent for at least one month. The funny thing about this is that for me I haven't even spent my four years at one university, much less in one place.
The college experience is not what it used to be; we come and go, not just between home and school, but state to state, study abroad, summer vacations, jobs, internships etc. and at the end they hand you a degree and say good luck! Proud parents hope their children won't move away, but the fact of the matter is that we're hard wired to do just that. The number of friends I have who say they want to move home after graduation has rapidly decreased since we started at our respective universities.
So is it the lifestyle or the opportunity? Do the four years at college actually help students figure out who they are and what they want to do with their lives, or does it promote restlessness and flighty youth. I say the latter, but then again what do I know? I've been to five new countries in the last two years without studying abroad, gone to the west coast, and come to the conclusion that as much as I love home, I'm ready for something new again.