Now that I'm on the other side of the podium and have been teaching for over a year, I've been carefully observing my students. My students come from diverse backgrounds and are typically in their early to mid-twenties. I don't want to be the grumpy old man who says our generation was better and society is going down the drain; however, I believe observing and hopefully making objective observations is essential. Nothing is all negative, so I share my positive and negative observations based on my year and a half of experience teaching at two higher education institutions.