Are college students out of touch with reality?

[ArrowheadSW]

My gosh! I can't imagine quoting those kinds of numbers if I were in college... LOL... Although when I was in college I certainly wasn't as in touch with "the real world" as much as I am now, but I think I would have been a little more realistic.

Good thing in this quote that it was only one quarter of the students who said this.

I knew in college that some people came from "sheltered" backgrounds. One young lady I knew said that her incoming roommate was "the stupidest person she ever met" because she wasn't doing real well in her computer science class. I told her that no, if she was "stupid" she wouldn't even have got into that college. It's just that computers weren't her cup of tea or she hadn't got with the swing of college classes yet.

[ChiTownLov]

I'm a college student at the moment. It may also depend if they were thinking of a different state beside the one they were in. Not many people would think of the whole country, just the state they reside in. I know I'm not lost on reality, but maybe some of these younger students are out of touch.

[TrueConfection]

Yes. Yes they are! As a mother of one in college and one on the way, I can assure you they are totally out of touch with reality. They don't even have to starve like we did, they get a "meal plan". College age kids and those entering college expect to be paid six figures right out of graduation. They're learning.

[purplepoppy]

No. Most of them will come from families who earn that kind of money. They're just reflecting what they're seeing in their own community.

[exitseven]

Not all of them. The spoiled rich kids that go to the fancy private schools and have their parents pay for it are out of touch. I teach at a blue collar type college. Many of my students are just out of the military and many of them work part time jobs to pay tuition. These kids know exactly what reality is.

[NathanDavis]

good thing they're there to learn and get ready for reality...

and not to know everything about life in advance

will they though? that's a different question

[DizzyDesii]

That was just a dumbass class 😂 They probably think everyone can get rich quick nowadays off of being a youtuber, ticktocker, or instahoe

[MTC29]

If their parents could afford to send them to Warton, where the first-year budget for the MBA program is an estimated $115,000, then the $800K is not an unreasonable guess.

[RebeccaBI2000]

That’s funny. They won’t know the true pressure of being an adult until they stop living off of their parents. For them to think that range is not a surprise either. My parents never discussed what they made with me

[BeMuse]

Ivy League kids are usually out of touch with reality...

[bean2k21]

When I went to college
I was pretty much intentionally
Out of touch with reality

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

With the figures you claim they said, just shows they are stupid, not out of touch.

[Anonymous]

This is assuming the students answered seriously.