Laziness and procrastination are the curse of almost all college students, and it appears to be get­ting worse.

While it’s good to get plenty of rest and not take life too seriously, it’s a problem when your laziness is affecting your fellow students. Even some of the sports teams seem to be falling prey to this problem and give up points to simple mistakes.

I feel that our culture has be­come poisonous; we have “role models” who don’t really do any­thing. You turn on the TV and it’s usually a bunch of people spoiled by huge budgets or spoiled beforehand. Heck, I’d probably be pretty lazy if I lived in a party area and was paid enough to just live my life without having to work at all.

Examples would be shows about wealthy women who are living their lives however they want, and rarely are they people who worked their whole life for that money. Then there’s “normal” people that net­works pay millions to so that they never have to work and end up in a ridiculous routine that people want to emulate.

Instead of inspiring stories of people who work their whole lives towards a goal, we end up with people who do nothing but go to clubs, get drunk and accomplish nothing. These aren’t people that should be idolized; they’re people that should be shunned. They’re not doing any work to maintain their lifestyle; they’re being lifted upon the backs of others.

These tendencies are starting to spread into the general population- -classrooms are dumbing down to compensate for the sense of en­titlement that has taken hold of so many students. It’s frustrating to see people not doing their homework, and then expecting answers to be handed to them. If you’re not going to do your homework, you need to take responsibility and learn it on your own time or pick it up based on what you know.

When this ethic spreads to sports, it’s a bad thing. People put in very little effort, then expect scholar­ships to fall into their lap while the season suffers. When this ethic is in the classroom, the rest of the class suffers if the teacher acknowledges them and the course is slowed down to deal with a sense of entitlement. This is why I like the social security system, while many people consider it “entitlement” it’s something you work for your whole life and leads to a decent payoff so you can spend the rest of your life in relative peace after a life of hard work.

I think this is what American life should really be all about. You should work hard and get a nice payoff at the end to reward you. You shouldn’t want to be a spoiled child­ish reality star that does nothing but leisure activities your whole life.