I’m convinced that products of the Internet generation have an unusually neurotic, borderline obsessive personality which makes it difficult to try to characterize or rationalize their erratic behavior according to common standards.
...either the bulk of the people applying to business school are morally bankrupt, or some shared impetus compelled them to deviate. I think it’s the latter, and I think the impetus is the unparalleled, competitive-to-the-point-of-sickening nature of modern college admissions.
I just applied to colleges, and am in the minority in terms of not really caring at all about it, having one foot in the college boat and one in the screw going to college boat. But I have to agree here – the entire admissions process is sickening and obnoxious and tense and fairly badly conceived – I hated it.
It’s interesting, this internet generation. Yessir. Are we all entirely compulsive? Can we not get along without our information?
They may want the money, but they do not need the money the way they need to know their admissions decision, the way they need to check and recheck their status page like it’s some kind of nervous tick or insatiable addiction.
Are students just inherently unethical, or does their addiction spur unethical behavior? I want to understand now why today’s admissions climate makes students crave the decision, what’s unique about my generation that so affords this craving, and how we can make progress toward curing both.
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