student_on_the_rebound:

What the naysayers are missing, is that some of the sterotypes are actually true, speaking as a 23 year old female. I'm often disgusted with my generation-how spoiled, "me me me" and demanding of praise we are. My parents put themselves through heavy financial burdens to help pave my way to education (and I'm still not totally loan free.) I got three jobs to balance out the debt while in school, but my sister, 4 years my younger, decided to go to an incredibly expensive city school, and then told my parents essentially to screw off, she doesn't want a job. Not that she doesn't NEED a job. Not that she can't FIND a job. That she doesn't WANT a job. Nearly all of my peers are having their parents pay their way in school, as well as giving them money for rent and frivolities. I say the boomers should speak up a little more loudly and a little more often about how this generation is being raised to have everything handed to them-and I'm speaking from right here among the land mines. So knock off the whole "ooo they're sterotyping us!", look around and realize there's a small grain of truth hidden inside that pity party.

AMEN!!! Thank you and now the people of our generation are having children (shudder) I was raised in a strict home, I dont feel that I'm entitled to anything unless I earn it. The first person needs to pull her head out and realize "Hey I'm a big girl now and I'm not going to get praised for wiping my ass", The chick with the college debt...HELLO do you not think your folks would have helped if they could have? DUH.