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The vast majority of college students have been found -- in a recent survey -- to highly value Wi-Fi, according to an article we found on Propeller.com and TechnologyExpert.
Conducted by Wakefield Research, the study found that 90-percent of college students characterize Wi-Fi access as indispensable to their education. Close to 60-percent of them claimed that the availability of free wireless would determine whether or not they would attend a certain school.
While these numbers are slightly surprising, one statistic is truly mind-boggling. According to this survey, a staggering 48-percent of students would sooner give up beer than give up Wi-Fi. Upon reading this figure, we were given no choice but to seriously doubt the integrity of this report; it was, after all, commissioned by an organization called the Wi-Fi Alliance.
But, what if the study is right? Could it possibly be that college students today are more intent on studying than partying? What are the youth of our country coming to?
Our fears were somewhat allayed, though, when we saw that over half of these kids check MySpace and Facebook in class. That, at least, will truly prepare them for the workforce. [From: TechnologyExpert via Propeller.com]
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Subscribe to commentsCraziestGadgets.comOct 7th 2008 3:00PM
Were they already drunk when they answered the survey?
EvanOct 7th 2008 3:44PM
Okay, so they'll give up beer. Jack Daniels it is then.
bryanOct 7th 2008 8:48PM
Beer doesn't do anything for you. Even if you're a slacker who doesn't study internet is hands down far more valuable than any substance. It's a stronger more addictive distraction and offers much more.
dennisOct 7th 2008 8:46PM
True or not, these students are saying the right thing to keep a good thing going. Even one of our past presidents commented to the effect
that he didn't INHALE...True or not true?
ChazOct 7th 2008 8:59PM
It's those commie professors that are filling our kids heads with this crap. Hire a few conservative professors and bring back the beer.
BarbaraOct 7th 2008 9:22PM
My kids (2 in college, 1 in h.s) are on their computers ALL the time - I KNOW they are not studying even HALF that time - they are on myspace, facebook, AIM, etc . . . watching movies . . . getting lost in youtube . . .
JillOct 7th 2008 9:36PM
Exactly Barbara!
mesamanOct 7th 2008 9:43PM
So is wi-fi short for weird fiction? You know like sci-fi is short for science fiction, or have I been visiting the beer keg too much.
AmandaOct 7th 2008 9:49PM
I'm currently a college student and I totally agree with this, I'd die if my wi-fi stopped working
KristineOct 7th 2008 10:36PM
I am a current Junior in college and I laughed when it said that most of the students are on Facebook and Myspace during class....because it's so true!
kievOct 7th 2008 11:17PM
Crack Cocaine!
SKWOct 7th 2008 11:11PM
I wonder what the results would be if they were put on the same poll? I think they just asked kids what the most important thing was (or however the question was phrased), and some kids might not have thought of beer as a valid answer to the question.
NickyOct 7th 2008 11:13PM
I think this article is ridiculous- it further stereotypes my generation. I'm not saying that people my age don't drink or other things mentioned, but it doesn't mean that we all are like this! I hate how the media creates this image of teenagers and college students... apparently we are all binge-drinking, partying, prescription drug-popping, energy drink- chugging, materialistic "kids" and we can't be trusted. As a freshman in college, I believe the generations that precede my generation are extremely unconnected to us as we are completely unconnected to them. And the thing is that our elders "think" they understand us, try to understand us, and yet they really don't. I think there needs to be more open communication between these age gaps.
VorianOct 7th 2008 11:50PM
I'm a current college student, I barely ever use WiFi since good old Ethernet cable access is fine for me, and I've never drank a drop of alcohol in my life. So I guess I would break that poll.
dedbusOct 8th 2008 4:41AM
I see what you mean. I blame this gap on technology and computers. Before now people were never getting this old and detatched with reality. Like they say an old dog doesn't learn new tricks. A really old dog is the same but it forgot the ones it learned or the ones it used to know do not work anymore. We were never really meant to have a meaningful connection with our predecessors, we were just meant to bring flowers to their graves but now we bring prune juice to their TV trays. No wonder the younger generation is the way it is. I would be forced to drink to if I had to put up with the older generations bulls---oh wait I do. Bottoms up.
MaseOct 8th 2008 10:08AM
It's not a stereotype of your generation it's a stereotype of college kids from every era. College kids in your parents and your grandparents generation did the same things, they just didn't have wifi to distract them. In fact, they probably got away with a lot more drinking and alcohol-related antics because there was no MADD, no D.A.R.E. etc.
Ask your parents about that if they went to college, or what they spent their weekends and evenings doing during their college-age years. If they don't tell you any awesome stories they are either lying to you or they were complete stiffs.
As for the rest of the article.... The key in this day and age is to find a bar that provides free wi-fi.
NickyOct 9th 2008 2:33PM
Okay I see what your saying and you are right that this is the issue with every generation that goes through this period in their lives, however, I was talking about the other stereotypes that go along with my generation. For example, like I stated before, we all apparently steal prescription drugs from our parents medicine cabinents and abuse them in hopes of getting high. Yes, some people are guilty of that, I'm not saying that no one does that, but I don't know anyone who does that. And once again, we are all apparently materialistic brats that don't care about anyone other that ourselves. Some people are like that, but I am not and know people who aren't like that. The media sets up these stereotypes that gets elder people to believe we are all like this and therefore they don' trust us. I don't know about other people my age but I see this type of discrimination all the time, first hand.
Also, I do talk to my parents and have a great relationship with them and they have told me about things they have done or seen in college. Ordinary college students that did the typical college things. Lest not forget they weren't doing the dreaded "underage drinking" then since the drinking age was 18.
KievOct 7th 2008 11:20PM
Now that's Church!
JJOct 11th 2008 6:34PM
It's not that they are studying more, but they are NOT willing to give up their addiction to pornography and stealing free movies and music using Wi-Fi moreso than anything else.
Poindexter McSmashOct 8th 2008 12:01AM
One day soon we will all make good computer slaves for our new alien Masters who will usher in the future of possible peace, or definite death...
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