A Vision of Students Today

Connor Williams
English 100k
Video Summary


In Michael Wesch’s video “A Vision of Students Today” there is a class room full of college students holding up paper signs or their laptops with stats about what goes into a student’s life. Whether it is the mere 26% of assignments that apply to individual’s lives, or the 26.5 hours of things complete each day. Michael Wesch is targeting today’s universities and teacher to make a point about how much today’s students are really doing. Student’s may spend hundreds of dollars on text books required for classes, and never even open them. In the world today, according to Wesch’s video, there are over 1 billion people who make less that one dollar a day. The cost a single laptop in the US costs more than those people make in a year. Many of these things are only traditional in the school setting, but today do not provide any advantage like they use to. There is no reason to buy text books today when we can look up every page online for free. Not only do we spend hours a day doing the work, paying for books, computers and coming out the other end $200,000 in debt and nothing but a piece of paper that says we are qualified for a job we don’t have and spent five years studying to get