College Graduation Festivities
I recently had the opportunity to attend my alma maters graduation weekend activities (or 48 hours of speeches, whichever way you want to look at it). Everyone is telling these kids how "special" they are and how they're going to go through the next stage in life "together." "Together" they will change the world.
The whole time I'm thinking that someone needs to stand up and tell these kids that no one in the real world cares about what they do or who they are; every bit of success they earn in the future will be because of their doing. They cannot rely on others for assistance. These college kids were being fed so much shit that I often became nauseous during my short time on campus.
Haha I laughed at that. Add on another 30K of avg debts for US students. Go enjoy life little buddies!
It's like that with kids everywhere. People (parents, teachers, professors, etc.) always shower them with praise and tell them that they're going to do great things, change the world, achieve their dreams, don't even waste your time listening to that.
Last time I checked, most kids really didn't become as great and change the world as much as people told them they would.
There's nothing wrong with hearing some nice platitudes for a few minutes. Believe it or not, most 21 year olds have experience beyond what they hear in a half-hour speech. Or would you prefer someone stand up there and tell them it only gets harder from here on? It's a celebration, they're probably pretty buzzed already; there's no point in being debbie downer up there. Just chill brah. If just one person decides to save the world because they were inspired by a graduation speech, that's worth thirty minutes of your time.
Or just skip the speeches and chill at the bar. That's what I've done for every graduation I've gone to.
An example from my high school, same point though:
They always gave us special treatment and stuff like that in my high school. Then many people thought that everyone will care about them and their desires, and took that for granted.
What happened - one of my brightest classmates (beast in math and physics, was on the school team for both, went to national contests etc.) went to study computer science at the most reputable school in my country (usually the brightest science kids opt to study CS). Then he stopped going to classes because he could get away with this in high school, and thought that he could do it in college as well. However, in college there is no one to look after you except for yourself, and this kid dropped out for a year. Fortunately, he is going back to school in the fall, and I hope he is more mature now (didn't speak to him in a while) and realizes that he is on his own in the real world and no one is gonna be there to help him but himself.
It's bad if you feel privileged and taking everything for granted. The reality is way too rough, and some people (the ones that take things for granted) learn it the hard way.
this generation will be the one that elects the american hitler. the combination of their sense of entitlement and their laziness will result in a chain reaction of growing poverty, political instability and then election of a madman to get the country's shit back in one sock.
Wow, we jumped from "wow those praise-filled speeches really teach kids the wrong lessons" to "these kids will elect the next hitler!" Calm the fuck down dude. You're being completely melodramatic. Unless neo-Hitler manages to appease one of the major parties (which, let's be honest, there's no chance in hell), he won't get elected. Furthermore, your concerns don't really relate to the OP's annoyance, because college educated kids won't be the downfall of our society - you should be much more worried about all the ones NOT in college.
These kids know that they're being fed bullshit. It's all part of the graduation festivities.
no, you calm the fuck down.
jeeezus. it's a graduation speech... there are times when it's OK to be unrealistically optimistic, and graduations are one of these times.
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Let's pump the brakes here. Nothing wrong with congratulating kids on graduating college. No need to throw Grandpa up on the stage to berate them all for not knowing what things were like back in the day.
Should have had this speech.
http://comedians.jokes.com/daniel-tosh/videos/daniel-tosh---dose-of-rea…
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