What's wrong?
I know you’re thinking, “Oh, here comes another old professor talking about how we kids today are all messed up.” We “lack perspective.” We “don’t get it” because we’re too “jacked in.” Well, I assure you the last thing I want is to be immediately dismissed as “obviously lame,” or “cranky and irrelevant.” Maybe I should “tweeter” you this message instead of writing it for a newspaper so you don’t assume it’s just another attempt to impart the “wisdom” of some by-gone generation. I promise that what I have to say about your grade-fetish isn’t anything like that.