The Seven not so Deadly Sins

In The Seven Deadly Sins of Students it seems we get to see the frustration of a begrudged professor manifest itself into print. As I read the article I could see how some of my less disciplined compatriots and fellow undergrads could take offense. I however agree with the authors conclusions. I do believe that my fellow students suffer from these flaws and I myself struggle with some. However these are not entirely of our making. Unfortunately many of these issues brought to light by Pannapacker are created by our culture and modern American society. A society were success is measured in gold and the only sign of success is the dollar sign.

Although I agree with the author in essence I feel that I need to make a rebuttal (entirely of my free will wink wink). To start off let’s think about what this looks like, a stuffy old liberal arts professor that KNOWS he is better than you. Yes sure, he is better educated, old, wiser, but still. As many of my friends in New Jersey would say “YOU THINK YOU'RE BETTA THEN ME?!” followed up with copious hand gestures of various meanings. Just the way the author goes about this seems insensitive and even shut off from the rest of the world. So with a little insight this is what I have to say.

Sloth: Yeah I don’t want to get up and read, so what? Even if I do read none of this stuff will be on the test that will conveniently end up being way more difficult than it needs to be. Oh and as for coming to class some days that would be more wasteful than staring at a wall for an hour.

Greed: Society created this monster don’t look at me.

Anger: Ok, maybe I’m a bit stressed out but I wouldn’t be that way if I didn’t have 7 classes that all assign copious readings, papers due every night, pop quizzes that could ruin my grade, GPA being crucial to getting a job, professors having way to high of standards, Fuuuuuuu…

Lust: Hey man just sit back and enjoy, you are getting paid for this.

Gluttony: yeah I can’t really defend this but at least the food here is good.

Envy: Ok, if that ass-hat sitting next to me gets an A then I deserve 5 A’s. I swear if this college thing was based on effort as opposed to meeting some old guys standards we would learn way more. Fix that and you fix envy.

Pride: Look that’s just a society thing, put less stress on us to perform and maybe we could be more humble. Low key though I am awesome, just look at my GPA. Some old people with masters and doctorates basically said I am.