College students today not only grow up in a culture in which their parents in many cases have been hovering over their well-being and progress but also develop in a societal context of cyber social networking. These students tend to post online instantaneously what is happening in their lives. Hence they receive almost immediate feedback either from friends or parents about how they are doing. These patterns result in students not living in any extended way in their own private space. The days of agonizingly awaiting a letter from one's geographically remote love interest are long gone in deference to texting. So, too, is taking that train to Barcelona or some other new adventure in the quiet reserve of one's own excited fantasies and anxieties about what will happen on arrival. As the train zooms along the track, today's students, unless determined to buck the seduction of technology and the pressures of common practice, communicate by cell phone their experience in the train as it happens.This means that experience, full engagement with the outside world, is compromised. Students don't fully take in the trip to Barcelona because they're too busy texting about it. In addition, students have precious little experience with the growth-promoting suffering that comes with living in private doubt about how one will accomplish something and how one will be evaluated by others. Unless they buck the prevailing social forces, nearly everything for these students is instantaneous; everything is public and immediate. The ambiguity of not knowing has been curtailed severely and replaced with knowing quickly the effects of, and opinions about, performance. Moreover, constant connectiveness with others means continual consciousness of appearance and concern about achievement level. Outcome concerns impinge insistently. There is little room for just
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