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Speshul Snowflakes
Jan. 25th, 2010 01:06 pmOh dear Lord. GOD, do I love college-age, entitled tools. They're like Halloween candy.
This is priceless:
College Student argues for the "right" to text in class, advancing the never-ever-before-used (and completely respectful to those professors who are grading him) argument that "I'm a paying customer, therefore I deserve to set the terms."
Some gems:
I’m sure others out there are experiencing my pain when it comes to professors and the obnoxious policies they implement regarding cell phone usage during lecture. In the past, I’ve tolerated their dictatorship like authority and snuck messages under the desk or behind my laptop, but that era is over. In my latest course, the professor thinks he has the right to automatically deduct 10% of a students final grade for any single use of cell phones: that means texting, tweeting, facebooking, and the like.
In most instances when it comes to colleges and universities, I find that they operate under a backwards business model. As a rule of thumb, customers come first. After all, satisfied customers means increased revenue and likeliness that references will be acquired. Nope. Not with education. Many academic institutions (from a financial standpoint, they are businesses) treat students with little respect. Yet, enrollment is ever growing. Why? Because “a degree is what you need to succeed” in today’s society. That means school officials operate under a do as I please system.
Oh, you poor, poor thing! Those horrible dictators! How dare they infringe upon your right to express yourself any. way. you. like. After all, you (and you alone, like not any taxpayers or corporations or anything) pay their salary, right?
No school has the right to bar me from texting during class. I pay their fees for a degree, in turn, respect my decision to text.
You GO, you just go. Soldier on, brave one. Fight the good fight for the rest of us!
Believe it or not, you are employed by me in this situation. “Deal with it,” as quoted by Tyler Durden. You get your paycheck one way or the other.
Oh, WOW. Yeah, that'll get them on your side.
As for “WHY” I text: I have a social life.
Just keep digging that hole.
I loved this, from one responder:
WHY is it so important to you to be allowed to play with your rattle while the grownup is talking?
And I loved the snark on the picture--that picture is just begging to be mocked:
I am special. I am SPECIAL.
He's SRSLY, you guys! He will not be ignored!
If there's one thing that I love to mock, it's children with over-developed sense of entitlement. I'd love to know what his parents think--I'm thinking they're helicopter parents. And on a more serious note, his attempt to reduce a college education, one in which he is privileged to participate by virtue of many factors beyond his control--a college education where you're given the Keys to the Kingdom and get to sit and learn and read and discuss and make each other smarter, more productive members of society and drink in the knowledge of the expert--to reduce it to some sort of business model, "I paid my fucking money, now give me what I want"--it makes me want to vomit. How dare you desecrate education like that? What. A. Tool.
Oh God--I'm giggling now, having followed a trackback to a weary professor's blog who talks about such students and their "self of steam" issues (apparently a common compositional misspelling in student papers). It took me a second to get that but now I'm laughing out loud.
This is priceless:
College Student argues for the "right" to text in class, advancing the never-ever-before-used (and completely respectful to those professors who are grading him) argument that "I'm a paying customer, therefore I deserve to set the terms."
Some gems:
I’m sure others out there are experiencing my pain when it comes to professors and the obnoxious policies they implement regarding cell phone usage during lecture. In the past, I’ve tolerated their dictatorship like authority and snuck messages under the desk or behind my laptop, but that era is over. In my latest course, the professor thinks he has the right to automatically deduct 10% of a students final grade for any single use of cell phones: that means texting, tweeting, facebooking, and the like.
In most instances when it comes to colleges and universities, I find that they operate under a backwards business model. As a rule of thumb, customers come first. After all, satisfied customers means increased revenue and likeliness that references will be acquired. Nope. Not with education. Many academic institutions (from a financial standpoint, they are businesses) treat students with little respect. Yet, enrollment is ever growing. Why? Because “a degree is what you need to succeed” in today’s society. That means school officials operate under a do as I please system.
Oh, you poor, poor thing! Those horrible dictators! How dare they infringe upon your right to express yourself any. way. you. like. After all, you (and you alone, like not any taxpayers or corporations or anything) pay their salary, right?
No school has the right to bar me from texting during class. I pay their fees for a degree, in turn, respect my decision to text.
You GO, you just go. Soldier on, brave one. Fight the good fight for the rest of us!
Believe it or not, you are employed by me in this situation. “Deal with it,” as quoted by Tyler Durden. You get your paycheck one way or the other.
Oh, WOW. Yeah, that'll get them on your side.
As for “WHY” I text: I have a social life.
Just keep digging that hole.
I loved this, from one responder:
WHY is it so important to you to be allowed to play with your rattle while the grownup is talking?
And I loved the snark on the picture--that picture is just begging to be mocked:
I am special. I am SPECIAL.
He's SRSLY, you guys! He will not be ignored!
If there's one thing that I love to mock, it's children with over-developed sense of entitlement. I'd love to know what his parents think--I'm thinking they're helicopter parents. And on a more serious note, his attempt to reduce a college education, one in which he is privileged to participate by virtue of many factors beyond his control--a college education where you're given the Keys to the Kingdom and get to sit and learn and read and discuss and make each other smarter, more productive members of society and drink in the knowledge of the expert--to reduce it to some sort of business model, "I paid my fucking money, now give me what I want"--it makes me want to vomit. How dare you desecrate education like that? What. A. Tool.
Oh God--I'm giggling now, having followed a trackback to a weary professor's blog who talks about such students and their "self of steam" issues (apparently a common compositional misspelling in student papers). It took me a second to get that but now I'm laughing out loud.
