"If anything isn't lined up perfectly, you're more likely to have a hellish experience"... imagine you start working in a group led by someone with preferences for hiring like-minded people or other biases... in 10 years of career I have seen biases involving religion, family, region...
This is a very balanced opinion. I will add a more radical tone: if you pursue your true intellectual dreams in academia you will surely find all kinds of obstacles and probably fail.
It may not be quite that simple. Moving an army is no small feat, the logistics required is complicated and could be miserable to try to manage in the Amazon.
If they did manage to get a large enough military force in to catch most of the illegal miners, how much damage would be done to the Amazon just by the army getting in there?
That's just the personal term I use to describe it, but I'd say it's a mix of lack of life experience, lack of expectations from the school, personal attitudes, lack of seriousness, lecture-hall style teaching and too many students, and low standards.
Examples:
- vandalizing all signs with the letter 't' around the school because the school has a reputation for "stealing a giant T" from a building, but all the students are too busy with career stuff to do anything like that
- saying "I want a job that pays me the most money"
- walking out in the middle of class after an attendance quiz
- administrative staff sending out emails with numerous typos
- lack of serious thought into important topics
I think American college students tend to be less mature than European ones due to being stuck in a suburb for 18 years as well.
Overall, I see a conversion towards mcdonalds-style university management happening world-wide. More or less what you explain, also based mostly on PR.
