I may have told this story before but...

Freshman year they have our class in a lecture hall and Profs ask "How many of you think you will become a practicing Architect?" 98% of class raises hand and professors make big production of saying how only 80% will graduate in Architecture and only 60% of those will ever get registered and how the A students will become professors and B students will one day work for the C students. Big reality lecture they loved giving every year.

Our last year our professors brought in the first year professors to our admittedly smaller class. They tell us we have been an exceptional class and tell us how this is so. They illustrate GPA's and national student awards won and tell anecdotes about our classmates. Then they ask the same question "How many of you expect to be practicing Architects?". About 20% raise their hands. Confused Professors say: "No, if you DO plan to practice Architecture raise your hand..." Same 20%. They were obviously stumped and crushed.

After the lecture a Prof I was close to asked me (I was one who did not raise my hand) "Why didn't anyone raise their hand and what's the problem?"

I told him "you told us how we did our jobs, maybe y'all didn't do yours". Luckily, it was too late for them to change any of our grades.