Anyone Feel Like College Students Are Coddled These Days?

Everybody gets a trophy generation

I don't ever remember talking to an academic advisor in college.

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In undergrad, I occasionally saw my advisor, but I certainly wasn't completely blind on what it took to graduate and I wasn't dependent on my advisor to tell me exactly what to do. 

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I got pretty scientific about finishing up in my last couple years. Once I saw a probable path to graduation I latched on like a pit bull. Took 52 semester hours total my last year.

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I don't ever remember talking to an academic advisor in college.

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As an incoming freshman my advisor steered me into the unpopular classes that needed filling (ex: 18th century English Lit instead of modern fiction.). After that I made my own schedule

Critical thinking skills are formed through a lifetime of being challenged to reflect and analyze problems (big and small.) Day to day life has become very simplified to the point that very little independent effort or thought is required to function.

It may seem silly, but I think it's good to tackle a variety of projects that require working with ones hands. Just something as simple as building a simple table or desk with your kid. It makes him/her understand how to think and plan a project. (Gathering necessary supplies, tools, work area, etc.)

We take a lot of things for granted as adults, but until you show a kid there's a process for doing things and how to be efficient at it, they will not get it. And will have to figure things out for themselves one day, when the stakes are potentially much higher/costly.

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Anyone Feel Like College Students Are Coddled These Days?

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Everyone should read "Coddling of the American Mind"

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Excellent book. We're are cranking out a nation of snowflakes

it took me five years to graduate at lsu and i never blamed anyone but myself!





(i thanked myself)

To be fair, they’re paying a lot more, so some enhanced customer service isn’t totally unreasonable.

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In undergrad, I occasionally saw my advisor, but I certainly wasn't completely blind on what it took to graduate and I wasn't dependent on my advisor to tell me exactly what to do. And I didn't need an advisor to tell me to seek academic help if I needed it.

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Excellent job on that English degree.

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Yeah.

I think your expectations become much, much higher when you're paying much more for the same education.

Right now, I'm getting the same service my parents got yet they went to college for a quarter of the price I'm paying. It's no surprise that my demands are going to be much more than theirs - I'm paying more so I'd expect a better quality education. And I use education/service interchangeably because when you're paying up to $50,000 a year for an education, it becomes a service.

Nevertheless, I'm not getting a better standard of service at all.

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That's fair enough. I certainly think that advisors should be providing good customer service and the price of college is ridiculous nowadays, I just think it can go overboard when, for instance, an advisor is having to call a student to tell them to meet with a professor and get extra help. The student should be doing that on their own.