College Students

Essay by amandawUniversity, Bachelor'sA-, November 2014

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As a college student myself, I've met many different kinds of college students. Today's college students adapt to their own way of learning and this results in a variety of different personalities. Some college students are negatively stereotyped as apathetic, ill-informed and self-centered. However, there are also college students who possess good working attitudes and are totally opposites of what has been mentioned.

College students have been negatively stereotyped as apathetic mainly because of their working attitudes in a classroom setting. They are usually the underachievers who are often absent from class. If they decide to come for lessons, they are often the latecomers who stroll into class noisily and talks extremely loudly in lessons to distract their peers. If they are not given the attention, they will be constantly using their phones playing games or even sleeping in class right in front of their teachers.

These kind of college students are unresponsive, they are never seen studying and they never does their homework and assignments. They are the ones seated at the back of the class being a distraction to their classmates, constantly asking them if they want to skip classes together. They also do not acquire any knowledge from lessons and even if they get to pass the module, it is without doubt, with very low grades. These apathetic students are often the ones thinking that they can still do well in life even if they drop out of school because Bill Gates was once a dropout who turned out to be a billionaire in the end.

Some college students are ill-informed in a way where they have extremely poor studying habits or unqualified teachers who are incapable of providing them with the necessary knowledge they require during lessons. When they have...