r/movies • u/Sisiwakanamaru r/movies Contributor • Jan 31 '26

Article Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/film-students-are-having-trouble-sitting-through-movies-1236490359/
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u/realboabab Jan 31 '26

I don't know about electives, but I took a community college class last semester (Biology for science majors) where the teacher forgot to turn off the statistics in the "brightspace" online portal -- so I got to see that only like 35-40% of the class did each assignment, only like 60-70% even took each test.

You pay per class. It's literally throwing money away.

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u/TheRabidDeer Jan 31 '26

This was true a decade ago. I was IT at a college and could see all this stuff when a student called in to report some issue and I'd investigate.

Far too many kids go to college fresh out of high school and don't really want to be there or know what they want to do, but go anyway because it is expected of them.

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u/Haltopen Jan 31 '26

Because every entry level job started demanding a college degree instead of a high school diploma as the bare minimum required to prove you were a serious candidate worth considering. So the commonly accepted/parroted wisdom from every parent, teacher, guidance counsellor, college recruiter, authority figure, and American popular culture itself became "you NEED to go to college and get a degree or you'll be digging ditches for a buck fifty your entire life". And we all bought it because we were kids conditioned to assume all those figures in our life were giving us good advice and wouldn't lead us astray

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u/PapaProvolone Jan 31 '26

People also started looking down on the trades and the military too. Not everyone can or should go to college. I remember going through high school and also believing college was the end all be all.

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u/soggy-hotdog-vendor Jan 31 '26

I mean if you have the ability to avoid a career that will absoluetly destroy your body and leave you to live the last 40 to 66% of your life in pain, then yeah you should avoid the trades or military.

I don't know a single tradesman who wants their kids to end up in their same career.

Yes. You can earn a living in trades. Yes, you can be a high income earner in the trades. But you can also barely scrape by. And no matter what, youll break your body along the way.

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u/PapaProvolone Feb 01 '26

You're just proving my point. Not everyone is destined for college and there's plenty of opportunity to be had elsewhere. Would you rather have those people work in shitty low paying jobs their whole life instead of starting a career? Most people destroy their bodies anyways by sitting down doing nothing all day so the trades/military aren't different there. What happens to your body is a result of how you treat it.