How many College students are very naive about the real world?

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<p>Just look at this thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/989552-fake-ids.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/989552-fake-ids.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Some parents think it is ok for their children to drink underage, actually serve beer to their underage children, and think it is fine for them to get fake ID’s.</p>

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<p>Other countries, such as Italy, have lower drinking ages and their culture doesn’t make it such a “big deal” so when their kids get older they dont go crazy binge drinking because they haven’t been repressed.</p>

<p>They also have longer life expectancy, ranking 18th while USA is 49th</p>

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<p>To answer the OP: almost all of them.</p>

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<p>“They also have longer life expectancy, ranking 18th while USA is 49th”</p>

<p>I don’t think our drinking laws were made to try and maximize life expectancy.</p>

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<p>If we let kids drink when they are younger then they’ll drink illegally younger. Hell, all this talk about lowering the age for safety, if some one can’t control howbmuch they drink that’s their fault.</p>

<p>Anyway i could definitely see students not knowing about the real world. I consider myself pretty down to earth and i am sure i have a lot to learn</p>

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<p>@bagelsbagels</p>

<p>The people that are stupid enough to binge drink when they’re 21 also did it when they were 20 and 19 and 18 and so on. I think it’s more of the culture in general and not so much the age limit</p>

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<p>Most studies show that drinkers live longer than nondrinkers to the tune of moderate drinkers> heavy drinkers> nondrinkers. But that’s beside the point of this thread. </p>

<p>As far as employers not caring about GPA, I feel to some extent that that’s the employer projecting onto the applicant, especially if the employer didn’t get excellent grades. Therefore, an applicant that had better grades than the prospective employer must (in his mind) be more socially inept. Some of us kids with good grades got out quite a bit. It’s like when girls see a pretty girl and say “she must be a *****.”</p>

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<p>Calling shens on this. Before water was safe to drink, one of the leading causes of death was cirrhosis of the liver because people drank excessively (even by today’s standards of excessive drinking). It is possible that moderate drinkers > non drinkers > heavy drinkers, but definitely not heavy drinkers over non drinkers.</p>

<p>Anyway, a problem with the 21 age minimum and the overzealous MIP business by law enforcement is that college students are extremely hesitant to bring seriously sick friends to the hospital out of fear of getting an MIP. The age minimum has forced underage drinking to be extremely and needlessly risky and dangerous.</p>

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<p>How many college students are very naive about the real world?</p>

<p>That’s easy; all of the liberal ones.</p>

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<p>Nope. Heavy drinkers, on average, outlive nondrinkers-</p>

<p>[Heavy</a> Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds - Yahoo! News](<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599201433200]Heavy”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599201433200)</p>

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<p>So? Some parents also think it is ok for their children to set cruise control for 5 mph over the speed limit when they are on the highways.</p>

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<p>Interesting, but I’m not sold. I think there is a big case of correlation without causation going on here. I’m going to look into this more later.</p>

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<p>That’s cool. I certainly hope the study is correct though; I love living, and I like drinking, so I’d like to keep doing both for as long as possible.</p>

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<p>I took an alternative route all through college by not going by the traditional “college experience” of living four years on campus at a university. While it was hard, I’m glad I did it for all the lessons I’ve learned and all the experience- for better or for worse. I definitely feel like I have a different perspective of the “real world”. I took a semester off where all I did was work and lived away from home, and I have also gotten a lot of “real world” experience with my major. So I’ve seen what it’s like out there, and I know it’s hard. It’s not as easy as saying “I’m going to have this career and this amount of income”.</p>

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<p>Working full time gives you a really good, hard dose of a reality check.</p>

<p>When you - not mommy or daddy - have to pay the bills, you learn a lot and grow up fast.</p>

<p>I feel that internship + professional experiences have made me much more cynical, weary and disillusioned with life. There’s a gap between me and the rest of my college friends who are still hanging onto their idealistic and somewhat candy-coated dreams and visions of the future.</p>

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<p>The idea of graduating college with a future wife and a future career is stuck in the Boomer past. A Bachelor’s generally isn’t good enough for a career anymore, and people now have the social freedom to marry later (which statistics show is better for the prospect of a long-lasting marriage).</p>

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<p>eternity - that is a likely cause; I’ve been self-employed since 18, and it is pretty much a learning process.</p>

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<p>I find it a little annoying when the over-cynical people tell me I can’t get anything with a BSE other than fast food. Yeah, not common, but people out there do say this stuff.</p>

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<p>I read in a Time magazine that Seven Day Adventists have the longest life expectancy in the US. </p>

<p>If you want a long life expectancy then you should restrict calorie intake, eat vegetables, exercise, drink water, and other such activities. I don’t know why I would ever want to live past 100 personally- What would I do?</p>

<p>Anyway, this thread is about naivety. Does anyone notice how we get all of our information from studies done which are posted online and (most of us) believe whatever is presented right before our eyes?</p>

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<p>^ I believe you</p>