Jeremy S. pointed me to a "Room for Debate" series at the New York Times, which basically forgot the debate part. Seven college professors complain about those lazy-assed college students today and their helicopter parents. It's vaguely amusing. Worth reading.

Jeremy asked whether college freshmen have changed that much. I don't think so. I spent most of my college years drunk and coasted off my high school education, and they are, too.

So, why are these college professors so delightfully bitter?

Jeremy writes, " I suspect some academics are taking out their hostility at shrinking budgets and prestige, along with the near certainty that current academia will not exist in another couple of decades or so outside of some ever-shrinking contexts, on kids today." I don't think that's it. I think that academics, especially the young ones, are workaholics. In order to have a job today, you really have to work 60 hours per week for years with little financial compensation. (Grad school really fucks with your brain.) So, academics tend to think that everyone else is a lazy fool.