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[quote=Anonymous]Students are definitely not as bright as in past years.

The company I work for is a technology company that has a student program. Think something along the lines of a Bio professor requiring students to buy a virtual dissection lab or engineering students being required to buy a certain software program for the semester.

Instead of requiring these broke college students to shell out big $$ for our software, we have a short access version at a reasonable cost between $50-$100. When a student purchases it, they get automatic download and use instructions sent out.

Part of my job is supporting the educational customers after purchase. Why? Because upon graduation when they either start their own practice or join another, we want them to buy our big $$ full package software.

Anyway, I've been doing this job for 12 years now and over the last 5 years, students have become SO needy. They require lots of hand-holding and request insane things like wanting us to remote into their PCs to install and set up the software. Most appear unable to follow basic "this is how you install the software" instructions. We had to dumb them down even more and they still need SO much help. It's like they have no deductive reasoning skills these days. I think it is because they are so used to being able to Google any answer they need and when they can't, they meltdown because they don't know any other ways to find the answer without Google. [/quote]

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