I was meeting with my FYI (First Year Initiative) staff today and we were going over issues we're seeing from our first year students. Most of them are the normal issues: they don't know how to pick up a package, they keep locking themselves out of their room, they can't figure out how to find things.. but there was one that was unusual and it frightens me...
It frightens me immensely..
They can't seem to figure out the elevator process.
I'll say that again.. they CAN'T SEEM TO FIGURE OUT THE ELEVATOR PROCESS
For example: Fiona Freshman is on the fourth floor. She pushed the down elevator button. The elevator is one the first floor, full of people and begins heading up -- dropping off people as it goes. When it gets to fourth floor, it drops of a girl and Fiona Freshman gets on and it continues up to drop off all of the rest of the passengers. When it finally descends to the first floor Fiona Freshman is furious because it went up instead of instantly down when she got on the elevator. She isn't making the connection that the elevator was still going up when she got on.. it wasn't arriving to her pushed down button, but was delivering based on the other girl pushing the 4th floor.
HOW CAN ANYONE BE THAT STUPID.... I fear for our future.
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