Narcissism and Navel-Gazing in the University?

The findings of a scientific study recently asserted that this nation's college students are really into themselves. Since Boston is flush with colleges, this would mean the city is absolutely drunk on narcissism during the school year.

According to the study, narcissists may love themselves, but that doesn't mean anyone loves them back: "[Narcissists] are more likely to have romantic relationships that are short-lived, at risk for infidelity, lack emotional warmth, and to exhibit game-playing, dishonesty, and over-controlling and violent behaviors."

Those problems may be bleeding past college and into the workplace. One boss complained to the Christian Science Monitor: "Gen-Y is the most difficult workforce I've ever encountered, because part of them are greatest-generation great and the other part are so self-indulgent as to be genuinely offensive to know, let alone supervise."

The editorial board of Boston College paper The Heights avoided what would have been a standard narcissists' response.

Instead of looking even further inward and asking "Are we narcissists?," the board called for its generation to pull its head out of its collective navel. They wrote, "Let us take advantage of the opportunities granted to us by the University and realize our purpose at BC: to apply ourselves to academic pursuits, and above all, to devote ourselves to serving others." Whether or not the allegedly narcissistic Generation Y pulls away itself from facebook and does those glorious things remains to be seen.

Cover of Air Miami's appropriately titled record Me. Me. Me. from AllMusic.com.