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Orientation for dummies

If you have a son or daughter heading off to college whom you have been coddling all these years, you might want to rehink it in the next couple of months, WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME:

Don't try to cross the icy Charles River in winter. For heaven's sake, don't hang out on the train tracks. Or put compromising pictures of yourself on Facebook.com. Or succumb to the addictive powers of Texas Hold'em poker.

These warnings for entering college freshmen have popped up at area college orientations during the last couple of years. Officials say that they keep adding new ``don'ts" partly because the online world has brought new temptations. But they also say they've become more intent on reviewing every conceivable danger because today's college students, known as the millennial generation because they came of age in the 21st century, have been so coddled by parents that many of them lack basic street smarts.

Oh, and if the building has only one floor, they probably don't need an elevator pass.

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