Posted on 04/21/2012 12:50:11 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
One year after you graduate from college, you are a completely different person. There's no fighting it. The baby you were on your first birthday had more in common with the version of you that was chilling in the womb a year earlier. We asked you to show us some of the things college students will be most surprised to find missing from the real world when they get there. The winner is below, but first the runners up ...
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That is a very accurate picture of most university students these days.
How did so many of them turn out this way? Didn't their parents teach them about reality?
I was responding to the comment about texting addiction. Many cannot sit still during a TV programme or a film without obsessively composing or responding to messages on their mobile phones. Kids, life is fleeting. Take time to relax and enjoy it without the damned distraction of texting.
Many of the kids in university today are of a generation that has been given everything with little to no expectation of responsibility on their part. There are many who have been raised with traditional values and have learned the value of responsibility and civility, but those young adults are in the minority.
I just miss the times when parents actually taught their kids about the realities of life.
This poster’s two simple rules for job success for new grads:
1) Have and use an alarm clock. Every single day.
2) No whining.
Even Africa doesn’t deserve the Dems.
I’m not sure any of these came from individuals who have actually supported themselves out in the real world. Still too self absorbed.
Archie Bunker’s “Meat Head” living in the real world.
There's a 16 year old girl in the news around Kansas City, who was texting while driving, lost control of the car and killed an elderly woman. She's being charged as an adult and is being charged with involuntary manslaughter.
Mark
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