Many undergraduate research students lack the strong will and character needed to innovate and excel. It takes dedication in the real world yet many of these kids in college care more about screwing around than the research they are doing in their undergraduate program. Since many are on scholarships or public money for education this is unacceptable because if they signed up for these research fields they need to get with the program, because they are taking up a slot which could have went to someone else who was more dedicated to the cause. The work ethic and lackadaisical attitude is often appalling and unfortunate. I for one am disappointed in many of these young students who act as if they are still freshmen in High School.

For those students in robotics and sciences that have military value these undergraduate students often put in little effort? One would think with a war going on that they would work extra hard to help things come along faster and volunteer extra hours whenever they could to the research and study and work thru the complex steps to get to the next step in the technologies they are working on. Recently while brainstorming online with a researcher in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle technologies and their military uses in theatre to help our troops I noticed the attitude of