Perfect Timing

A colleague just forwarded me the following article that came out in the Washington Post last week. "Me: If It's All About You, You're in Trouble. Why a Sense of Entitlement Can Wreak Havoc on Happiness." It does a great job of explaining the problems of today's youth and their belief that everything should be handed to them.

Welcome to my life.

Oh, and did I mention the student who in the first month of class asked me the following questions:
  • How do I write an essay?
  • How do I do research?
  • What does ____ mean? (a lot of basic English words...and no it is not a foreign student)
  • How do I save a file?
  • How do I upload a file to Blackboard? (the online program the school uses)
My question: how the fuck did you get out of high school?

Goes back to banging my head against my desk.

P.S. I found a great blog called Rate My Students where other faculty members bitch about their students. It's nice to know I'm not alone. :)

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