Ann's Blog On Today's Dorm Lifestyle

Ann's Blog #3:

"Posh Dorms, Amenities Becoming A Norm At College" (cnn.com, September 23, 2006)

College lifestyle is changing with the times. In some areas, gone are the days with community bathrooms and roommates. The twenty-first century is bringing plasma television screens, granite countertops, and limousines onto college campuses. Dorms are becoming more extravagant making the cost of living on campus much higher. Students are hiring services to clean their dorms, do their laundry, and shop for groceries. All these "perks" are driving the cost of college life higher and higher. It is being debated whether the students who choose to live this type of lifestyle are getting the wrong idea of what it means to be an adult.

MTV's television show, Laguna Beach, is a prime example of kids whose parents will buy them whatever their heart desires. This sounds great, until the product becomes beach blonde brats with negative IQs. When parents spoil their children beyond reason is when these children begin to believe that the world revolves around themselves. This leads to them thinking only about themselves and contributing nothing to society. I will never be able to understand our country's obsession with shows that focus entirely on superficial teens overreacting with one another to get attention and cause drama. I am not that interested in watching a television show that allows me to watch two girls fight over a boy and call each other explicatives. Instead trying to get rid of a corrupting trend like this one, someone has decided to give college students plasma screens and designer couches in order to watch (and learn) from these types of shows. And there is no question that they are learning from these shows and looking up to the people in them. When I think about that, there is no question why dorms are becoming insanely upgraded. These young adults are admiring the people who star in the OC and wanting to live like they do. In order to do this they are pulling as much out of their parents as they can. There is obviously no way an eighteen year old would be able to afford a $1000 a month dorm rent. Furthermore, there's no way to convince me that students bringing thousands of dollars of electronic equiptment are serious about their education. If this is the caliber of people who will soon be running our society, I am concerned. These type of shallow individuals who look for mommy and daddy to help them out have no idea what life is really about. College is supposed to be the time in a persons life where they learn that lesson, but if their parents are still sending them checks and encouraging partying lifestyles they will never grow up. Instead of learning to live with a roommate and receive an education these people are learning how to better "live on the ritz". I think that it is pathetic and that America should be doing something to stop it, rather than encouraging it. I believe that it is a big problem that needs a different kind of attention than the glorifying kind it is recieving now.

Now thats what i call a good role model!!! Her name is Kristin Cavalieri and she is a star in the show Laguna Beach. I am thinking that she is not quite the kind of person that I would choose to look up to, nor would I want my peers to admire someone like this.

news article from:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/09/14/college.posh.life.ap/index.html
picture from:
http://www.rockstar84.com/images/kristinlb.jpg