The freshouts I spoke of before all seemed to be genuinely shocked at their first experience of the real world. Not only were they wholly unprepared for their

The freshouts I spoke of before all seemed to be genuinely shocked at their first experience of the real world. Not only were they wholly unprepared for their chosen career; they also seemed wholly unprepared for the revelation of how unprepared they were. I can't say for sure why that might be, but I could speculate on it for days. Perhaps they never really understood the point of school in the first place. Perhaps they were seeing so much success at Googling their way through school that they were never given any reason to suspect they might not be able to get away with Googling their way on through the rest of their lives. Perhaps they knew how dependent they had become on being hand-held through everything by others, but didn't know how to escape that pattern. shrug All I know is that at this point, if I were to find out that there were a university that had a policy of flunking students for asking, "Is this going to be on the exam?" I would immediately write a letter to HR suggesting that we aggressively recruit graduates of that program.