Only Stupid People are Breeding

Okay, I know I just blogged but this one honestly cannot wait. It’s about my most discussed topic: idiocy among people and even more specifically, college students. As you know I LOVE my school and the smart kids there SO much (in case you don’t know me that was sarcasm).

Hmmm…where to start with today’s display of sheer inanity:

To start, kids in my class were asked by my teacher in 5 years, how much they would need to have in the bank to feel comfortable. The number started at $10 million and finally leveled off at a more realistic/reasonable figure of $20-30,000. Yes, I know some of these guys are just kidding but I’m not so sure about everyone else. I doubt even $30,000 is realistic for most of us after 5 years in the industry of course I’m sure some need that much to secure their designer clothes and handbags. Jeez. One girl even said, “When is more money not a good thing?” as her defense for why she needed $1 million in her bank account to feel comfortable. Honestly, I couldn’t make this stuff up.

But of course, what should I expect from a population where college kids still swear “I’m with Stupid ->” T-shirts. {No, seriously, I just saw one today and did a double take. I thought those were only seen on stereotypical frat guys on cheesy TV shows.}

But the idiocy gets worse. A Senior Marketing Seminar class is doing a project on the “green” trend. I first found out about this because an intelligent put a plea out on Facebook asking people to fit out a survey online. No biggie.

Today in class, a couple of girls were handing out the 3-page, single sided, printed survey. The first question was “Briefly describe what ‘environmentally friendly’ means to you.” I wanted to answer “something you obviously care nothing about. Kill enough trees today?”

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not some budding green freak preaching about recycling. This is more of an issue of stupidity to me. I admit, if it had been a survey on anything else I wouldn’t have thought twice about it.

To add to the stupidity, I overhear that these girls will have to take the returned paper copies of the survey and then take the online survey for each and every respondent. Not only are you killing trees in vain, but you are just creating more work for yourself while sending a very mixed message. If a real company ever handed me a paper survey on green efforts I would never do business with them again. I mean, who’s going to trust a company with just a mixed marketing message? Then again, I would like to think most big businesses are smarter than the kids I go to school with, even if they get good grades. Apparently no one grades them on common sense.

What has come of the education system? Thank gods I’m getting out in 6 weeks before it make me dumb, too.