People sometimes ask me why I have such distaste for the mobs of students who choose to major in Business, Commerce, or whatever.
“Why are you in Business?”, I’d ask.
“Business is where the money’s at, yo”, they’d said with a well practiced it’s-so-obvious shrug of the shoulders.
“Graduate business students are more likely to cheat than their peers in other disciplines, according to a recent survey.
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Rafiaie said often times the business world relies not only on what people know, but who they engage. Students are taught to engage with others to compensate for their weaknesses…”
Reprinted without permission from The Charlatan
Please don’t sue me.
Of course, they have it all figured out. “School isn’t important in the real world,” they say, as if they know perfectly well what the ‘real world’ is like after watching countless re-runs of Donald Trump and The Apprentice.
“A degree is just a piece of paper and the real test is out there,” they say as they wave their hands absentmindedly into the horizon.
Well I’ve got news for you, buster.
How you choose to live your day-to-day life is a measure of how successful you’ll be in the future. If you swoop through your university days, madly cheating and only doing what you need to do to get that lone piece of paper, how exactly will you be different from the hordes of other business students out there?
The fact is, you won’t be. So buck up and stop convincing yourself that the real test is in 10 years time.
The real test is here and now.
