Revaluation for Our Generation

JACQUELYN LOI
Staff Writer

When the current generation is brought up, words with negative connotations are often associated along with us, such as lazy and unintelligent. However, our current generation, also known as Generation Y, should be not associated with these labels.

According to the New York Times, 65.9 percent of high school graduates attend college, significantly lower than the 70.1 percent in 2009. Yet about 74 percent of recent graduates go on to enter the labor force. Stated by the Huffington Post, this ultimately shows that our generation is able to start businesses at a faster rate than ever before.

Older generations view Generation Y as lazy simply because of the availability of technology at our fingertips. We now have the Internet available to us, lessening the use of books for research. However, the ability to use resources effectively does not make us lazy, but rather productive. Our generation is simply using what is readily available to us and to our advantage.

Generation Y is the new force of people that are going to be the leaders of tomorrow’s world. While our generation may be labeled the “Me Generation” or even the “Go Nowhere Generation,” there is clearly more to our generation than what other people perceive us as.