Daily Collegian

[Nitt1300]

This left me shaking my head. My unsolicited advice to this young man would be that life is not and never has been "safe" and seeking "safety" is no way to live anyway.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/opinion/columnists/article_dea08e4a-4597-11e7-b93e-df075e0c934c.html

 

[BobPSU92]

SNOWFLAKE.

 

[Nitt1300]

SNOWFLAKE.

meany

 

[Delco Lion]

At 18 my dad was in the Big Red One in WWII and engaged in daily combat. Can you imagine how this writer would fare?

 

[Cletus11]

An 18 year old crying to his mommy as he heads off to college, seriously? My 8 year old son didn't cry when we dropped him off for the first time at a summer overnight camp. The wussification of America at it's finest.

 

[step.eng69]

Comedy piece, right?
** mom probably couldn't wait to get the whinny kid the hell out of her sight.

When I first came to Penn State, I was incredibly lonely — debilitatingly lonely in fact. I was convinced the next four years of my life would be miserable and long. And I accepted that.

I didn’t visit the campus until New Student Orientation and as me and my mom drove up the winding roads I couldn’t help but cry. With my hands gripped to the steering wheel and tears streaming down my face, I turned to my mom** looking for comfort, but she ignored me.

Seeing the mountains on my right and fields of cows on my left, I never thought a place could seem so small and foreign to a person. Home seemed so distant and the environment so hostile.

 

[bison13]

I remember driving up those windy roads along 22 and then Port Matilda on to PSU. Except, like a normal person, I was excited. Nervous but excited. I dont know how anyone could think of the environment as hostile. If you dont make 10 friends your first day, you are doing something wrong. Within an hour of my parents leaving, I was already meeting some people for dinner and figuring out what we were going to do downtown that evening.

 

[Nitt1300]

At 18 my dad was in the Big Red One in WWII and engaged in daily combat. Can you imagine how this writer would fare?

maybe better than you'd think- when forced to face adversity, many people do rise to the occasion- as our dads did.

 

[joeparules]

SNOWFLAKE.

An 18 year old crying to his mommy as he heads off to college, seriously? My 8 year old son didn't cry when we dropped him off for the first time at a summer overnight camp. The wussification of America at it's finest.

Completely agree with you both. If I'm China, I'm thinking this is the best time to attack the US. With all of these snowflakes it would be worse than the French in WWII.

 

[LionJim]

maybe better than you'd think- when forced to face adversity, many people do rise to the occasion- as our dads did.

Yes. We each have a reservoir of toughness available to tap.

 

[john4psu]

Oh just stay home and take courses online if it's that tough and scary. Puhleeze.

 

[LionJim]

Oh just stay home and take courses online if it's that tough and scary. Puhleeze.

To learn, you have to be willing to deal with the understanding that you really don't know all that much. I was willing to put up with my advisor's eye-rolling because I knew it was part of the process and wasn't personal.

 

[MattMC223]

This left me shaking my head. My unsolicited advice to this young man would be that life is not and never has been "safe" and seeking "safety" is no way to live anyway.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/opinion/columnists/article_dea08e4a-4597-11e7-b93e-df075e0c934c.html

Also, the grammar is terrible, "me and my mother drove". You would think a writer for the school paper could write a proper sentence or an editor would notice such an obvious error.

 

[Uh Clem]

I don't disagree with anything written above me, but would point out that the author, Sam, isn't a he. He's a she. So maybe crying to mommy is a bit more understandable. But my daughter would kick her ass!

 

[BBrown]

This left me shaking my head. My unsolicited advice to this young man would be that life is not and never has been "safe" and seeking "safety" is no way to live anyway.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/opinion/columnists/article_dea08e4a-4597-11e7-b93e-df075e0c934c.html

Geez what a wuss.

 

[Obliviax]

Jeezus. Do people not understand basic laws of nature/survival?

The good news is that we will all die from Global Warming before the next generation is in charge.

 

[step.eng69]

I don't disagree with anything written above me, but would point out that the author, Sam, isn't a he. He's a she. So maybe crying to mommy is a bit more understandable. But my daughter would kick her ass!

Right, forgot to read the small print..
Editor-in-Chief Sam Ruland can be reached by email at editorinchief@psucollegian.com. Follow her on Twitter at @sam_ruland

 

[BUFFALO LION]

I don't disagree with anything written above me, but would point out that the author, Sam, isn't a he. He's a she. So maybe crying to mommy is a bit more understandable. But my daughter would kick her ass!

I'm glad I read your post. I was about to say that sounded like it was written by some girl.

 

[Nitt1300]

I don't disagree with anything written above me, but would point out that the author, Sam, isn't a he. He's a she. So maybe crying to mommy is a bit more understandable. But my daughter would kick her ass!

I missed that, obviously. And so would mine.

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

This left me shaking my head. My unsolicited advice to this young man would be that life is not and never has been "safe" and seeking "safety" is no way to live anyway.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/opinion/columnists/article_dea08e4a-4597-11e7-b93e-df075e0c934c.html

The Collegian would do well to eliminate these self indulgent opinion pieces.

 

[BobPSU92]

meany

I'm an Internet toughie.

 

[BobPSU92]

Oh just stay home and take courses online if it's that tough and scary. Puhleeze.

Right. He could stay in his childhood bedroom, and mom could bring him hot cocoa with marshmallows while he deals with the daily struggles of being challenged in his courses by those mean professors.

 

[Obliviax]

The Collegian would do well to eliminate these self indulgent opinion pieces.

You just don't understand how hard it is to be a kid these days. you are heartless.

 

[anon_xdc8rmuek44eq]

You just don't understand how hard it is to be a kid these days. you are heartless.

Seriously....

 

[Obliviax]

Seriously....

 

[dmdpsu]

Comedy piece, right?
** mom probably couldn't wait to get the whinny kid the hell out of her sight.

When I first came to Penn State, I was incredibly lonely — debilitatingly lonely in fact. I was convinced the next four years of my life would be miserable and long. And I accepted that.

I didn’t visit the campus until New Student Orientation and as me and my mom drove up the winding roads I couldn’t help but cry. With my hands gripped to the steering wheel and tears streaming down my face, I turned to my mom** looking for comfort, but she ignored me.

Seeing the mountains on my right and fields of cows on my left, I never thought a place could seem so small and foreign to a person. Home seemed so distant and the environment so hostile.

Everyone experiences life differently. No reason to hate people that are different. But that ofcourse is the main reason we have wars.

I'll never understand those who love to criticize others for really no good reason. I guess it makes them feel better about themselves in some demented way.

The kid opened up about his emotions....so sue him..or better yet, (from the safety of your computer) make some derogatory comment about him being soft, a "snowflake" etc... If he were your son, you might take pitty on him and support him in any way possible, but I doubt you would vilify him.

 

[Grant Green]

Every generation in history has thought that the next generation was soft. Our grandparents probably thought we were pussies too.

 

[Woodpecker]

Every generation in history has thought that the next generation was soft. Our grandparents probably thought we were pussies too.

They were right

 

[BiochemPSU]

Everyone experiences life differently. No reason to hate people that are different. But that ofcourse is the main reason we have wars.

I'll never understand those who love to criticize others for really no good reason. I guess it makes them feel better about themselves in some demented way.

The kid opened up about his emotions....so sue him..or better yet, (from the safety of your computer) make some derogatory comment about him being soft, a "snowflake" etc... If he were your son, you might take pitty on him and support him in any way possible, but I doubt you would vilify him.

This.

 

[TiredOldLion]

I was disappointed when the kid passes on the Creamery!

 

[interrobang]

I'm thinking she used some poetic hyperbole in that article.

But this line:

See when you come to college, everything is your responsibility — you have complete freedom.

Except when you get in trouble and you expect Penn State to be your babysitter

 

[BiochemPSU]

I'll bet her parents are like Piazza's parents, ready to blame everything else

 

[Grant Green]

They were right

Maybe so, but their grandparents thought they were pussies.

 

[BBrown]

Every generation in history has thought that the next generation was soft. Our grandparents probably thought we were pussies too.

and considering what they went through they were probably correct.

 

[step.eng69]

No reason to hate people that are different.

(from the safety of your computer) ma

Let me correct you on a few of your judgments. For the most part I greatly respect persons unless they give me reason not to. Hate is a very powerful, derogatory word to be in use here, and I have left a trail of corn for anyone on this board to follow and figure out my full name, where I work & live. I guess that breaches the “computer I’m hiding behind”.

I live in the wooded mountains of Lehman a mile and half from the nearest paved road. If you wish to visit, please give me prior notice. I’ve be told that people driving aimlessly on the families 2,000 feet of private dirt roads have had a warning shot or two fired above the bow in the wee hours of the morning.

 

[bwifan]

and considering what they went through they were probably correct.

 

[dmdpsu]

Let me correct you on a few of your judgments. For the most part I greatly respect persons unless they give me reason not to. Hate is a very powerful, derogatory word to be in use here, and I have left a trail of corn for anyone on this board to follow and figure out my full name, where I work & live. I guess that breaches the “computer I’m hiding behind”.

I live in the wooded mountains of Lehman a mile and half from the nearest paved road. If you wish to visit, please give me prior notice. I’ve be told that people driving aimlessly on the families 2,000 feet of private dirt roads have had a warning shot or two fired above the bow in the wee hours of the morning.

Your response addressed nothing I said. Why you attacked the young man is still curious to me.

 

[BBrown]

Your response addressed nothing I said. Why you attacked the young man is still curious to me.[/QUOTE

You and I have a very different definition of "attacked".

 

[step.eng69]

Everyone experiences life differently. No reason to hate people that are different. But that ofcourse is the main reason we have wars.

I'll never understand those who love to criticize others for really no good reason. I guess it makes them feel better about themselves in some demented way.

The kid opened up about his emotions....so sue him..or better yet, (from the safety of your computer) make some derogatory comment about him being soft, a "snowflake" etc... If he were your son, you might take pitty on him and support him in any way possible, but I doubt you would vilify him.

Wow, I earned some fire for something; didn't realize I would be blasted with some harsh accusations over a mother's actions.
"I turned to my mom looking for comfort, but she ignored me."....Enough said

Not attacking anyone, found the article humorous. My son-daughter whining on like this when I am about to borrow $100 grand in the next four years, no dmd, they would not get my sympathy.

 

[dmdpsu]

Maybe you need a dictionary. Here you go.
at·tacked, at·tack·ing, at·tacks
v.tr.
1. To set upon with violent force.
2. To criticize strongly or in a hostile manner.
If you prefer the word disparage, would that make you feel better?