Have some of us forgotten that we pay money to go to this University? In no other aspect of our lives do we pay for something and then openly bash it to the public. Sometimes we get mad at our cars when they break down, but we don’t usually trash them.
That’s embarrassing. If you say that your automobile is a piece of junk, that reflects poorly on you as well as a consumer. Why didn’t you do your research and buy a better car? Why are you stuck in a lease that you can’t get out of? Why did you buy that dog that tears up your furniture when you leave it alone? You’re not an idiot, are you?
The same logic should be applied to those who do nothing but trash this University’s name. How does that make any sense? If you casually perused the social networks after the University released that they had a security breach, which was unintentional and not done to purposefully inconvenience any of the student body, you couldn’t help but think that CCSU was the worst educational institution in the state.
Why would anyone want to bash their own University where they pay to go to school? The people who are doing so are just feeding into the problems they perceive.
Whenever someone says, “CCSU is just a commuter school…” are the majority of the students who live on campus refuting that? No. So we’ll always have that reputation until someone stops perpetuating the idea that is all we are.
After you graduate, and you’re in a room full of people talking about your life to that point, and the topic of your place of education comes up, you better want to be proud to say that you went to CCSU. If you’re not, then leave. Don’t waste your time. And in the process if you could not relentlessly bash your school and make the rest of us look bad, that’d be great.
The school has put a lot of faith in you to make them look better. With every graduating class, we should be stronger and going on to do more important things as a group. We don’t reflect that in any way when we constantly trash the University, do we? We come off as babies. Frankly, it comes off as being uneducated, but if that’s what you’re going for then that’s perfect.
If at any point you are not grateful that you have a degree from an accredited university then you should have your head examined. When you’re sitting in your office, out in the field reporting, working in the arts or whatever else you end up doing with your life, don’t think that you were able to do so without that piece of paper that you may or may not have earned here.
There will always be exceptions to the norm, as in when people with virtually no education climb company ladders, but for the rest of us we should be proud of our choice in our university and not full of hate and disdain towards it.
The more you bash it now, the worse you’re going to look in the future. If you want to run CCSU’s name through the mud, you should accept the fact that you’ll be dealing with that throughout your career.