It\u2019s depressing to see many of my fellow University of Central Florida classmates, friends and coworkers so unaware of their own surroundings.<\/p>\n
Many of them I\u2019ve spoken with recently seem more interested in the latest video-game release of Assassin\u2019s Creed or where the biggest parties will be this month, instead of topics such as the presidential election, the storm that recently devastated the northeast, or what\u2019s going on in their own student government.<\/p>\n
Some of the people were barely aware this year\u2019s election just finished up, and others wondered who I was referring to when I mentioned Sandy \u2013 as in Hurricane Sandy.<\/p>\n
The college mindset in some has seemed to drastically shift in focus, and not in a good way.<\/p>\n
Many students live in a frame of mind that positions Michael Jackson\u2019s family as \u201cAmerican royalty,\u201d and where our source of information and news comes from YouTube and The Daily Show.<\/p>\n
At least the students at Beloit College seem to think so. Every year the Wisconsin university publishes a list, the Mindset, which details how each class of first-year students pictures the world. These students say we live in an age when people are famous not for their theories or their philanthropic actions, but simply because they\u2019re famous as \u201cself-proclaimed\u201d stars.<\/p>\n
I often find myself embarrassed that I dare to read a book in public, let alone watch the news in the morning and tune in to mobile updates throughout the day.<\/p>\n