Although we would like to believe that all undergraduate students are rigorous seekers of knowledge, the job that many college students are really trying to get done, from our observation, is to pass their courses without having to readthetextbook at all.
During an early scene in the 1989 film, Dead Poets Society, Keating (played by Robin Williams) sets the tone for the rest of the movie when he asks his students to readthe introduction to their poetry textbook.