YouTube "A Vision of Students Today"

After watching the video “A vision of Students Today” on youtube I wanted to make a video of my own by taking a survey of Sac State student and find out what type of lives the student at my school are living. Overall, this student made video had a dramatic impact on my and put a spotlight on a problem I have. The problem is the system. I knew it was there, but I accepted it for the way things are suppose to be.

This vision these students have is one of change. By making this video they are questioning the system in which they are being educated and not following the group of sheeple around them. Sheeple are sheep people. People that live their life content with other people making decisions for them even if it causes a problem that is directly related to their everyday well being.

I think one of the main problems with Universities today is the transformation that was made years ago from being an educational facility, with the student’s education in mind, to a business, with the students’ money in mind. Today, I do believe that professors are on the side of the student, but sometimes they are forced to conform to the business ethics of the higher-ups within the University system. Classes are cut, expensive books are assigned and short-cuts are taken for the best interest of the financial gain of the university.

The students that made the video on you tube are taking a step toward changing the current system. They are reaching thousands of students everyday with their video and causing a wave of reactions, agreements, disagreement, blogs and obviously homework assignments. This is called awareness of the problem. This awareness can stem change; I’m not saying it will but the potential is there.

The most shocking part of the video, which was also the part that I could relate to, was when the students held up signs saying, “I get an average of seven hours of sleep per night” or “I talk on my cell phone three hours per day”. Those are the type of thought I have everyday. I’m always busy calculating how much time I have to do a certain homework assignment or walk from point A to point B in order to be somewhere on time. When they actually calculated the average persons time schedule it equaled 26.5 hours. WHAT!!! There is only 24 hours in a day.

What does that mean. To me this means students is being forced to spread themselves too thin. They are, as the video said, “Multi-taskers, because we have to be.” I multi-task too much. I think my multi-tasking is resulting is bad health. I don’t think it is healthy to eat on the run, literally…everyday! I don’t think it is healthy to sleep on average five hours per night. I don’t think a healthy idea of exercise is running to classes or work everyday. Plus all of the above adds stress to a stressful life.

I don’t have a solution, but this video made me think…is there one?