I love what the world is coming to. It’s absolutely fantastic. Ultimately everyone whom has recently gotten out of school and not been able to find a job in the market that we currently reside in, has thought of it, but who acts upon these impulses? I really thought this was a joke when I started reading this quote…
As Thompson sees it, any reasonable employer would pounce on an applicant with her academic credentials, which include a 2.7 grade-point average and a solid attendance record. But Monroe’s career-services department has put forth insufficient effort to help her secure employment, she claims.
What bothers me is the sense of entitlement. I myself have been through this in the 4 years I’ve been out of school, and found one universal truth. That truth is, no matter what kind of job you try to enter, the only real preparation you can have is to put forth an effort into yourself.
My college experience taught me that they will only take part of the way (a very small part) and you have to put together the rest of it. Only until I started pushing myself did I start to learn. When I did that, I felt like I was far ahead of many of the students I spent college with.
I think its funny that someone has the gall to think that the college actually owes them something. They offer the possibility of a job, the idea of the dream, but its a dream nonetheless. Undoubtedly I think schools get paid far too much for what they bring to the table, I think they owe it to their students to put their best effort into preparing them for the future, and pushing them as far as possible, which a lot of times I felt I was not challenged enough. I felt as though the programs I was put through were not even close to preparation for the future, it was in fact what I learned on my own by challenging myself that turns out to be the most useful.
As much as I begrudgingly don’t want to be on the side of the school I feel like she’s majorly in the wrong here.