tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post5582800573457849614..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Lena Chen Discovers ShameStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-73223634435975090072012-06-21T03:59:22.588-07:002012-06-21T03:59:22.588-07:00I fully agree with anything you've printed her...I fully agree with anything you've printed here.deerfieldparksouthhttp://www.deerfieldparksouth.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-82706303036000378852011-06-05T07:08:29.209-07:002011-06-05T07:08:29.209-07:00I should never write or edit early in the morning ...I should never write or edit early in the morning when I do not have my glasses on.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-60104200227202239932011-06-05T06:53:56.861-07:002011-06-05T06:53:56.861-07:00Thanks, Dennis. It shows what a strong organizatio...Thanks, Dennis. It shows what a strong organization, based on discipline and camaraderie, can do for young people. It makes you think that some form of compulsory national service would be a good thing for today's youth.<br /><br />Of course, universities abhor such organization, especially the military variety. And they seem to be so completely against the military that they downplay any forms of loyalty, patriotism, and even school spirit... lest they make their students into Republicans.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-48837248582305972612011-06-05T05:03:38.395-07:002011-06-05T05:03:38.395-07:00My experiences out of high school were just the op...My experiences out of high school were just the opposite. I joined the Navy at 17 to avoid being drafted into the Army. I met, ate, slept in the same area and got yelled at by everyone in sight. They forced me to do thing I never thought was possible. I cleaned this and saluted that. I had to get up at ridiculous hours in the morning to do exercises with a rifle, et al and at times do KP. Needless to say life threw a bunch of challenges at me as that wet behind the ears small town poor boy of 17. What it did not do was take away my individualism. NOTE: That individualism is what makes the US military the best fighting force in the world.<br />All I can say was that it taught me I could do anything I set for my goals in life including attaining a BS and an MS degree.. So much for that "low hanging fruit" canard used by many of those very same poor little college students who seem to have an aversion to growing up and taking responsibility for one's life and also for those around you. Can one even imagine that the military has all kinds of programs to assist those "low hanging fruit" to attain advanced education?<br />Shame, failure, discipline et al are all there so that we can succeed and are requisite for us to become who we are as a person. Only we can allow someone or ourselves to make us miserable.<br />I believe that one of the reasons many young people have trouble coping with the exigencies of life is that we have tried to remove all of the challenges from their growing up years. Life is meant to be a challenge and without them we never truly grow as we were meant to grow. Learning to lose is learning to win.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-42415878102633603242011-06-05T04:07:07.687-07:002011-06-05T04:07:07.687-07:00Thanks for telling us about this... I agree entire...Thanks for telling us about this... I agree entirely that it would be great if colleges had some means of orientation for beginning students. Somehow I imagine that they are so focused on sensitivity training and green energy, and so opposed to the frat culture, that they have not thought through the real needs of young students.Stuart Schneidermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-64535121296199207042011-06-04T15:54:16.585-07:002011-06-04T15:54:16.585-07:00Stuart says:
"Bright eyed and aglow you arri...Stuart says:<br /><br />"Bright eyed and aglow you arrived at Harvard, only to discover that no one knew who you were, or much cared. From being the glory of your high school you have sunk into perfect anonymity. You might as well not have existed; you were invisible. <br /> <br />Some first year college students deal with the encroaching anomie by joining fraternities and sororities, by going out for the marching band or the rugby team, by working on the newspaper or the radio station."<br /><br />It would be helpful if there was guidance through this transition from high school to college rather than just finding yourself dumped in an alien environment with no purpose whatsoever.<br /><br />I chose the path of complete withdraw from life, depression, and what amounted to academic suicide. <br /><br />And thus, my college experience remains the most traumatic period of my entire life.<br /><br />I solved this problem by going to law school. And then continuing my basic complete withdraw from life, social isolation, and what amounted to continued academic suicide (having developed no skills to deal with the problem).<br /><br />It would have been nice to realize that there were solutions to anomie back then. I would have saved myself a decade of suffering and failure.<br /><br />I just had another nightmare about college a couple of weeks ago. And it's been 13 years since I've been there.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11126071014909954387noreply@blogger.com