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College students: Not ready for life?

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Twenty percent of U.S. college students graduating from 4-year colleges don't have the skills to handle tasks like estimating whether their car has enough gas, or calculating the total cost of ordering office supplies, a new study has found.

The study funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts surveyed 1,827 graduating students from 80 randomly selected 2-year and 4-year schools. Pew tested students on three types of literacy, including performing basic computations; understanding documents like job applications; and comprehending news articles or instructional materials.
"The surprisingly weak quantitative literacy ability of many college graduates is troubling," Stephane Baldi, who directed the study, said in a release. "A knowledgeable workforce is vital to cope with the increasing demands of the global marketplace."
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http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6029652.html

Oh, now come. This is just silly. Just because they're college students they are meant to be 'above' the usual idocy of the general public? Yeah, not likley.

I can calculate complex mathmatical problems and debate and break down information with ease.


I also didn't finish high-school. And have had no formal education in seven years.

These fucks can't even understand simple things like how to find a location on a map. What ever happened to just being stupid? The majority of people are. I am considered *shock* *horror* to be pretty smart by everyone I meet. Coming onto messageboards to post with people with more than two braincells to rub together is part of the appeal. Nearly all the long term posters (not stupid duals or the obviously mentally challenged retards we have) here are above average intelligence.

The fact that we can string sentences together seals that fact. The general public is moronically stupid to the Nth degree. Illiterate and vacant minded. Schooling doesn't make you smarter if you're allready thick going in. It can help if you have a will to improve but it really works for the smart to get smarter. The fact that a bunch of college students can't tie their shoe-laces together is not that surprising.
 
Judging by some of the people I met whilst at Uni, I can only but imagine they're letting single-celled organisms in these days.
 
Indeed, just because you've been to uni, it doesn't automatically make you smart.

Especially with some of the degrees you can do now adays...

Anyone can go to uni in the UK. In fact, the universities WANT as many people in there as possible so they can leach money off us students. I don't think that degrees should be reserved for "smart" people, but I think it's insulting for people who actually have to work for a degree that people can get what's laughably called a "higher eduction", or a degree in something like Beckhamology.
 
National Lampoon's: Van Wilder.

A movie about a man named Van Wilder who's been at Cooley College for Seven Years. ;)
 
Well, if Wordy is any indication, then there are a lot of college kids today that will be monkey bait when they hit the streets.
 
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Oh, mommy. Most Indians would say "cow" because they are sacred, but I hear "milk," I think giant jugs. You see, I cannot go home a virgin. I came here to study the great American art of muff diving. To smack clam, munch rug, dine at just one American pink taco stand! You know, I wanted to, how is it, park the porpoise. You know? I want to take it through the car wash, baby. And get it waxed. I want to wax it. Wax it! You know, and air dry. Air dry that shit, yeah! And I would like to be your assistant very much, Mr. Van Wilder.
 
RommieSG said:
Oh, mommy. Most Indians would say "cow" because they are sacred, but I hear "milk," I think giant jugs. You see, I cannot go home a virgin. I came here to study the great American art of muff diving. To smack clam, munch rug, dine at just one American pink taco stand! You know, I wanted to, how is it, park the porpoise. You know? I want to take it through the car wash, baby. And get it waxed. I want to wax it. Wax it! You know, and air dry. Air dry that shit, yeah! And I would like to be your assistant very much, Mr. Van Wilder.
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I was looking for that quote, but I couldn't find it :( That's probably the best line in the film. I was cracking up.

Damn I wish uni was really like that :D I watched it again a couple of days ago.
 
At the college I wasted my time and money at fifty percent of the population was eighteen-year-old students fresh from high school, the other fifty percent were forty-year-old plus looking to go back to school and "get an education." Then ten percent were exchange students, mainly hot female Asian ones.

I can't say if many of them were idiots because I didn't really talk to some of them, but I did meet a few brilliant people there.
 
I'm a year and a half from being finished with this 4 year college, but I do know some people that would fall under the 20% the article is talking about. The typical dumb bitches, their jock boyfriends and your typical druggie. None of which go to class and struggle their entire college life to get a 2.0.

If you think I'm joking, here's a sample of conversation I overhead while having lunch:

Moron: so we were like talking about animals in bio today. Something about DNB or something.
Guy: DNB?
Moron: Yeah something like the blood, you know.
Guy: You mean DNA
Moron: Yeha! That's it. Something how it controls what we become. I asked if I ate Chicken DNA, would I become a chicken? He didn't answer me, I think it was cause I'm right.


This is an actual conversation. No I am not shitting you.
 
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