College students more arrogant, self centered than ever...

[KDOG]

Gee...this is news?

The study confirms what I've thought all along - college kids are snotty little gimme-gimme, "thats' not fair"-whining, disillusioned worthless piles of crap.

 

[maddogchen]

time to go to UCLA and taser them

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: KDOG
Gee...this is news?

The study confirms what I've thought all along - college kids are snotty little gimme-gimme, "thats' not fair"-whining, disillusioned worthless piles of crap.

Nah, it's the same in every generation. There are good kids, there are bad kids, there are snotty kids...technology changes but people don't. Most people I've met are pretty decent people though

 

[Mr Incognito]

I'm glad there is a study to confirm what I have to deal with everyday.

 

[sao123]

ATOT is the narcissism capital of the world.

 

[KarmaPolice]

umm the whole world is like that.

 

[clamum]

I could barely stand sitting in the CS lab at school unless there were only a couple people. There was one group especially of arrogant little annoying fvcks that talked so much sh!t it was unbelievable. This fvcking kid talked like he knew everything... ugh it made me fvcking sick.

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: sao123
ATOT is the narcissism capital of the world.

Yeah I might agree with that.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

In a country where a crackwhore tramp Anna Nicole is raised to God/Saint/Ghandi/Mother Teresa status at the time of her death is this any surprise?

 

[KDOG]

I think this is also a cause of violence today as well. When you raise kids with the hippie style "I'm special", let them say/express/do what they want mentality, they go apesh!t anytime things don't go their way...

 

[thirtythree]

Haha, one of the psychiatrists says that parents should quit telling their kids that they're special.

 

[ElFenix]

The new report follows a study released by UCLA last month which found that nearly three-quarters of the freshmen it surveyed thought it was important to be ?very well-off financially.? That compared with 62.5 percent who said the same in 1980 and 42 percent in 1966.

sounds more like kids have been paying attention when told that social security is a POS

 

[getbush]

Every generation has all kinds. I'm only 24 and still in grad school and I can't stand all the punks behind me. There are a lot of good people too though. The good come with the bad. I like to be around though when they get out of college and are shocked that a crappy four year degree from a mediocre school doesn't turn them into the millionaires they all thought they'd be.

And I've seen the worst of it. I lived with three sorority girls for two semesters. MTV, Laguna Beach, and The Hills are the bane of my existence. Those shows make me want to vomit on so many levels.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

It has as much to do with the fact that this entire generation is cynical.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf
It has as much to do with the fact that this entire generation is cynical.

All it takes is a couple hours of fox news for one to become cynical.

 

[SonnyDaze]

And here I thought it was the old people who had problems.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: getbush
I lived with three sorority girls for two semesters.

Formal request for photographic/video evidence.

- M4H

 

[Jeff7]

This truly surprises me. I really never would have expected this. Ever.

 

[uhohs]

Originally posted by: maddogchen
time to go to UCLA and taser them

hell ya
:thumbsup:

 

[xtknight]

The study asserts that narcissists ?are more likely to have romantic relationships that are short-lived, at risk for infidelity, lack emotional warmth, and to exhibit game-playing, dishonesty, and over-controlling and violent behaviors.?

*ahem*...oh Jesus is that ever true.

 

[meltdown75]

Hey OP, back in the day, would you have had to walk uphill in a snowstorm, across a field of broken glass with bare feet, carrying a 68-lb sack of coal to your furnace-powered computer to post this?

Just curious.

 

[TraumaRN]

This doesn't surprise me at all. It's everything from suburbanites to urban inner city.

I'm part of this generation...and yea I see this. I can be a bit self-centered myself at times. But nothing like what they are talking about here.

And the kids behind me are MUCH MUCH worse

 

[Tiamat]

imho, its much worse in the high school population...

 

[SirStev0]

Originally posted by: Tiamat
imho, its much worse in the high school population...

for truth. To be honest as a college senior I feel the freshmen are this way too. It very well could be that seniors felt the same way about me when I was a frosh, but I just feel people have change. Who knows, maybe I am just getting old.

 

[CptObvious]

Agree with the researchers that the self-esteem movement has gone out of hand. Shame is a powerful teaching tool, but nowadays it's all about protecting the little brats' feelings of being special. This is why America is increasingly getting its ass handed to us by Europe and Asia in any field of team competitions.