Aaah, another registration week down. The chaos that consumes us on this week is sometimes unbearable, but we survive. I've never seen my fellow advisors look so worn down though. I made it through pretty well unscathed. For the first time in a year I was able to go through a registration week without a killer cold/flu. I actually had a voice to speak to my students this year! Hooray for being audible!
My job (as glamorous as it sounds) has its hazards though. One of which is talking to prospective students and their families. It makes me wonder how the state of our nation will possibly progress with this crop of inept 18-year-olds flooding into adulthood with no sense of responsibility and only a sense of entitlement.
I actually had a student sit in my office today, and text the entire time, while his parents asked all the questions. Only now do I realize that I should have called him out, but I'm not his parent, nor am I his teacher. I am a professional whose job it is to ensure that students have the opportunity to receive a degree, beyond that it takes their initiative to actually desire that opportunity enough to care. I can do a lot of things, but I can't make them care worth a damn.
I can't tell you how many times I've nearly cried as a student sits in my office wondering why they're failing all of their courses, and can't seem to grasp that they have to actually attend class, take notes, listen and care!!!
Why put all the money into an education if you're just going to squander it?! Just because Mommy and Daddy tell you to?! Well damn it, you're an adult! Start acting like a grown-up and take responsibility for your own life. My Mommy didn't come with me to my advising meetings, or hack into my email to read my messages to make sure I'm not missing something, or write a threatening letter to the dean because the school is picking on "her baby" when "her baby" is the one who hasn't shown up for a class since the beginning of the semester! Why do parents have to be so overly involved in their kids' lives?!
THAT is what is wrong with this new generation of kiddos (yes, they may be adults but they're still acting like kids): their parents have always done everything for them. YOU'RE DOING THEM NO GOOD, PEEPS! You're only hindering them from being self-sufficient! Take this as a message of warning: not allowing your 18-year-olds to handle their own business is only making them burdens to society.
*Pant* *Pant* Ok, now I'm done, I will get off my soap box and you may return to your regularly scheduled lives.
