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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]University professor here. It's not what most professors want. The last thing we need is arrogant little pricks coming in thinking they are revolutionizing the world with an IQ of 120. This is just one example of very many, but I had set up a booth to recruit students for a study several years back. It was going just fine until a 20 year old came up to me and insisted he was a "direct marketing expert" who was "transforming businesses." He would not leave my booth and I lost a number of potential recruits in the thirty (!!) minutes he lectured me on what I was doing wrong with my advertisement and recruiting script. I came to learn he had taken TWO CLASSES in marketing to gain his "expertise." Like dude, you're a sophomore, not a business transformation expert. Leadership is a buzzword invented by administrators so that they can ignore SAT scores in favor of subjective and ever changing definitions of "personality" to broaden their admissions pool. The reality is that we get a lot of students who have been falsely indoctrinated by their parents, high schools, and others that they are leadership material, even though when they graduate they will probably be performing some menial task. It's not proven but I believe the inflation of young people's expectations that they will all be some kind of leader or world changer is contributing to depression in the late 20s/early 30s workforce[/quote]

It can be hard when someone with so little life experience lectures those of us with lots. Yet, as I have watched my own DC go through this stage of development, I realized that their confidence and grand visions are a sign of passion, energy and optimism.  As we age, we lose some of those qualities or they get tamped down.

Arrogance is bad, and kids have to put up with paying their dues. But no one who is too humble ever did great things. It is not like our generations have done an amazing job with the world. I am willing to give tomorrow's hot shots a turn to channel their talents and confidence to improving our social trajectory. [/quote]

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