A Vision of Students Today

The YouTube video, "A Vision of Students Today" accurately represents the emotions of college students in our society today. Throughout the video, college students express their everyday struggles, written on a piece of paper or typed on a laptop screen. These include the aspects of college life such as time spent studying, e-mailing, reading and sitting in on lectures where they are merely a number to the majority of their professors. The aggregate total number of hours necessary for these activities exceed the number of hours in a day, not even accounting for sleep. The students then conclude their message with an unexpected turn. They consider themselves lucky, because of the amount of students not able to afford proper education and in turn, an insufficient job. The creators of this film chose the theme of technology due to its prevalent effect on generations of students throughout the worlds today. They incorporated pathos into their message by relating the obstacles they are faced with to the audience. The prevailing question to this video is whether technology has promoted to the expansion of knowledge and learning, or if it has played a negative role on college students and their schooling. The film concludes with a professor writing on a chalkboard in an old-fashioned way. This forces the teacher to move about the classroom and promotes interaction within this environment, the logos in this rhetorical aspect.