I know of several people that currently attend Michigan State University that I knew from my high school and many other schools in my area. There are a select few I would like to talk about. These people were excellent students in high school but once they got here, they stopped caring. They will skip most or all of their class and they wont do any of their homework. It doesnt make any sense to me; why would you work so hard all of your schooling career to attend a great university like this and let it all slip away in your first semester. Now I understand that everyone skips a class here and there but when a person skips a whole week of class, there is a serious problem.
I have a few theories about why this may happen. First, there are just so many distractions that happen on campus. It would be very easy to just give in and just party and hang out with your friends all of the time. Another is that this is the first time that many people have spent a large amount of time away from their parents. Maybe the only reason they did well was because their parents forced them to go to class and do all of their homework. The reason one person gave me was that high school was so easy he didnt have to do the homework and he still got a 4.0. I guess they dont realize that college is much harder than high school. I just hope they learn this before its too late
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It is a startling thing to realize how lightly people may treat the great privilege of higher education. Your ideas about possible explanations are good. Another I have heard: “Education is wasted on the young.” That is, sometimes young people don’t realize what a wonderful thing has been placed in their laps at little cost to them. So sometimes they treat it lightly, figuring that ‘getting by’ is sufficient. As you say, the sooner students realize the great privilege of education, the better!
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