Does anyone remember being an undergraduate and spending most of ‘Reading Week’ actually reading? Well, not any more! In fact, this year, many students in my class decided that Reading Week was not long enough, so they are also taking the Friday prior to and the Monday following Reading Week off. That’s just great. I still get to prepare lectures and teach for those days, but they can come and go as they like. I cannot wait to hear all the complaints after Reading Week about their assignments, quizzes, etc.  After all, they have had a week of screwing each other and getting drunk on a ski hill, Caribbean beach, whatever whereas I have been trying to catch up on all of the other work that they prevent from doing for the rest of the semester.

Am I bitter? No, not at all. I’m just tired of the self-righteousness and sense of entitlement that seems to plague most undergraduate students these days. And don’t even get me started on graduate students.