Give them the means and the facilities to cure cancer and I have every faith that they will eventually succeed, but ask them to work a till in a shop or to spell 'library' and they're just thick as pigsh*t. A few people I know who were straight A students would ask questions like "what do shipbuilders build?" and it really made me wonder! I now work in a university library where they sometimes employ students on a casual basis and it's like they think the whole world revolves around them and they're better than everyone else because they're drinking away their student loans nearly every night. It also really hacks me off when they start going on about their rights when they have absolutely no idea what their responsibilities are. Am I the only person who thinks this? Opinions please!!
2006-10-10 11:54:20 · 10 answers · asked by Helen B 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Apologies, was not referring to mature students, should've been more specific. Also, not really a generalisation when you're dealing with them day in day out.
2006-10-10 13:05:46 · update #1
In my experience, graduates have no common sense.
Once worked at Dartford with a guy called Chris Small. One of the nicest people you could meet, very intelligent, but no life skills.
If you gave him a book to read, he would memorise it in a couple of days.
One day at work, he volunteered to make the coffees. He reappeared 10 minutes later carrying a new jar of coffee with the silver-foil seal still intact, and asked us how to get into it!!!!
The sad thing is he's now probably running a department in a bank, being paid fortunes 'cos everyone else knows what they're doing, and he still won't have a clue.
2006-10-10 12:09:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I drank away my student loan... then again I was a severe alcoholic with depression and SHD. I worked in a shop and was very polite and competant (then again I had worked full time for a year before I was a student).
When I was at uni I met a lot of fantastic people and a lot of arrogant fools.
Some students are not mature or experienced enough to be real adults but still think they are adults.
A few people were of genius level intellect but had poor social skills, some were certainly mildly autistic - they would ask seemingly stupid questions because they percieve the world in different ways, I would not judge them.
I am planning (after paying off my overdraft, finishing my novel and seeing Russia for a month) to save up enough funds to become a mature student. I hope that as a mature student I will actually pass a degree (I suppose now I am sane and sober that will help!) and set a good example to the younger students.
I think your opinion is valid for many students, probably most students, but not for all students. Have a fantastic day!
2006-10-10 19:37:17 · answer #2 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Sundaegirl, are you including mature students in your generalisation?
I am in my 30s with 3 kids and I am a student nurse. I spend half the year at Uni and half on placements full time work experience, I also work part time for extra cash.
How many library assistants you know could do all that and stay (almost) sane!
2006-10-10 19:04:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, a lot of the 18-21 year-olds are clueless. But you forget that there are mature students (like myself) out there who are not only more qualified, but probably have a lot more nous than you do and are busy juggling their courses with children and jobs and basically life in general. So lay off the sweeping generalizations, eh?
2006-10-10 18:59:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, they are so dumb that the compulsory education was not enough for them, that they had to keep studying after finishing schools. I was that type, so I went to Uni. How is that?
2006-10-10 20:04:09 · answer #5 · answered by ono 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always put it down to the fact they are only as good as the subject they are studying, they go to uni to study one subject and know nothing of any other subject.
2006-10-10 18:58:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lack of experience? Shuttered in at school and babied by mummy? They aren't bad kids - just kids, that's all.
2006-10-10 18:58:56 · answer #7 · answered by dorothy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i work with some "uni" lads on a Saturday,and your right,they can get "A"s in rocket science,but they have no common sense at all!!
2006-10-10 19:00:14 · answer #8 · answered by ady 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
their "brain hard drive" all used up with trivial data and none left for logic programing
2006-10-11 02:21:31 · answer #9 · answered by watcher 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
now were pass dumba**es that can't even spell there own name just to get rid of them instead of teaching them
2006-10-10 19:05:30 · answer #10 · answered by dannysci17 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋