With repetitive "attention grabber" openings and faux epiphanies.
Not that the students are insincere, but not a great form of entertainment or enlightenment in my book.
And the universities put a lot of pressure on them — they don't settle for the straight-forward truth: "I'm a relatively bright kid who wants to go to a good school and get a good job and who has had relatuiely typical life experiences including some successes and some failures. The end."