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[quote=Anonymous][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]

If you are a university professor who was taken for a ride for 30 mins by a sophomoric kid with 2 classes, this explains why this country is going down the toilet.  A prof who spends all his life thinking should be able to spot a fake within 10 secs.  You are the moron here.  [/quote]

Yeah, that's not a leader, or a "leader," that's a jerk. There have always been jerks and there will always be jerks, people who think more of themselves than they should.

My kid hates being involved in any kind of club but he is a natural leader and it will come out in all of his recommendations. He has lots of ideas and people like to follow him. He often gets some crazy notion about a special project and the other kids in the class and even the teacher get excited about it and they all end up working on it (he figures out ways to involve everyone, delegates assignments, and ends up basically a project manager) even though it was just some thing he thought was cool. His resume is thin but I'm confident that his teacher recs will tell the admissions people that he is the real deal.[/quote]

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