"Nameless" brings up a very good point. Often in college students do not really take the time to acknowledge and network with other students in their classes. As the author points out, it might not be our lack of care for these people as much as it is our desire to just get by in our classes and be done for the day. I really like the stanza breaks in this poem, because the breaks allowed just enough of a pause to reflect on what was just read. I think the poem offers questions, such as "What have we become?" that allows readers to form their own conclusion. The poem itself encourages us to think, something the author seems to believe we haven't really been doing in the classroom, as he writes "Not retaining this information."
The stanza that states "I am not defined by my C-average grades, they just get me by, I am defined by the hunger to succeed" doesn't really make sense. Someone with a "hunger" to succeed would probably care about their grades. Unless the voice of the poem is maybe in an internship or something that can measure his talents in a way that a classroom couldn't, then the only way he can appear to be aiming for success is by getting good grades. While a "C" isn't bad, I don't typically envision someone hungry for success being satisfied with an average grade. I also think that in the first stanza the it would be okay to make the room described one color: saying "white/gray" is a little bit of a mouthful and doesn't allow the first stanza to flow very well.
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