The Unrealistic Expectations of Student Loans

I think that the biggest problem is the unrealistic expectations of the students who take out these loans. I feel like the loan system, and I am not an economics person, but it seems to me like it's just completely broken. It does seem crazy to me that the federal government gets to say you can't default on this loan and also we will ultimately decide if we'll forgive it or not. Like are we giving loans to people where there is also jobs waiting for them at the end? That system seems like it makes more sense than we currently have.