Writing anonymously in Inside Higher Ed, a professor at a liberal arts college speaks of both the exhiliration of a productive lecture and the frustration of dealing with coddled, entitled college students.

In this essay, the professor fires off more than a few shots at today's college students, who he believes are coddled too much and believe they deserve an A whether they earn it or not.

To wit:

"More of them come to campus with dreadful study habits. Too few of them read for pleasure. Too many drink and smoke excessively. They are terribly ill-prepared for four years of hard work, and most dangerously, they do not think college should be arduous.

Instead, they perceive college as an overnight recreation center in which they exercise, eat, and in between playing extracurricular sports, they carry books around. If a professor is lucky, the books are being skimmed hours before class."

 Harsh words to be sure, and a maybe a bit unfairly general. But is there some truth here? Are there plenty of students out there who regard a B as an unacceptable grade, regardless of the effort they put into the work?