How may times have you heard this: „Oh, I will miss you so much, we had such a great time (OR „working with you was so enrichful”). We definitely have to keep in touch”. You exchange e-mails for two or three months. Personal interests begin to diverge and the connection fails („the subscriber cannot be reached right now”). But we like thinking of us as sentimental, caring persons. It seems that society changed a lot the animal within. We don’t like hoards anymore.
Sometimes I feel like in an American highschool, in a difficult neighborhood. I miss those wonderful quiet open-minded applicants one month ago. They all get in the first year and they turn back into aliens!
Desktop Publishing class. The students have to type some articles to be laid-out in Adobe PageMaker later. The work starts slowly. They feel humiliated. „What, typing our own texts? Why not copy and paste some texts from the Internet?”. Some students download and install YM and other messaging software, leaning on the posters saying „Please don’t install any software downloaded from the Internet”. One student is 30 minutes late. When the class finishes, she protests: „It’s not fair! I didn’t stay enough, what, don’t I deserve the same treatment as my colleagues?” I explain to her that being late in […]