1/12/2003 12:23:00 PM

I'm starting to get really sick and tired of this recurring nightmare when it comes to working with some undergraduate students. I suppose it's just the very nature of undergraduate life and they're certainly not to blame for acting their age. It's just that maybe I need to move on... maybe I will feel so much more satisfaction or sense of achievement out of working with truly dedicated people. People who are passionate about what they do enough so that they're willing to schedule other tasks around it and prioritize accordingly. I'm in no way saying that working with music is my only number 1 priority. It ranks the same as my job, my studies, and my love for driving and snowboarding. It's just that I have to schedule things around or sacrifice one for the other at certain points in time to bring about the most happiness from them.

In a professional or amateur setting where you only have dedicated people in the mix, you can say "Yo, during this important time if you'd rather be off with your buddies drinking, then maybe you're not ready to commit", but I'm not sure what that'll mean to college students who are uncertain of what they're truly passionate about. It might have a negative effect of turning them away from the activity even before they find out for certain whether or not they are passionate about it. One might argue that if you're passionate about something you'll instantly know. I don't agree. I believe you never know for sure until you truly understand what is involved. It took me 4 years of college education to FINALLY realize that I was indeed passionate about Computer Science. If I were to have given up Computer Science during my junior year I would have never looked back. Who knows what I may be doing now if that would have happened? So I guess it just boils down to me growing up and learning to deal better with these situations... like stop expecting too much...


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Your cranium must be protecting some very valuable barnis. (1397)

Bobs - 10/31/2012 3:51:30 PM [ 221.181.232.145 ]

I don’t expect anything. I certainly don’t expect people know know what they want in life. Hell, I don’t even know. I haven’t lost hope in you guys, I just want to be constantly surrounded by people who are more dedicated than I am... (567)

dJsLiM - 1/13/2003 10:49:00 PM [ 151.201.29.14 ]

Undergraduate: by definition a person who is UNDER graduation status in school.. has yet to learn HOW to be and act professional in the so-called real world environment.They have yet to acheive certain goals, including their degrees which they come to college to attain, as well as maybe even finding out who they would like to be amongst the many people in the world we will inherit.

There is such a thing as being capable of having the dedication to something you’re passionate about as an undergrad, as I do myself love dancing and art. However, yes, maybe there are some things we all still need to learn in terms of balancing out our priorities of school and higher learning, as well as the hardships in embarking upon our own adulthood (careers, jobs, dreams of living a prosperous life on our own).

Perhaps some people just don’t have their lives in order, but what do u expect? How the heck are u supposed to be certain of what you want in life when you’re only 18 or 20 or even 22 years old? We come to college to study, to learn about things.. perhaps some of us take it further and pursue such acheivements in education to the fullest, and some of us just come to learn more about it b/c, God forbid, the whole knack of actually WANTING to know more about a subject actually still might exist amongst today’s youth~~

Some of us, believe it or not, are actually very dedicated. Don’t lose hope on us just yet. (566)

caro - 1/13/2003 1:04:00 AM [ 128.2.146.3 ]

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