In the eyes of most, you are still one of these "young people". Even though it might not feel that way, the amount of mental and emotional growth people undergo between the ages of 18 to 25 is very substantial. So don't fall into that "get off my lawn" mentality so early. It'll make you senile.

I've been privileged to have attended and graduated from a school widely considered by most ranking bodies to be amongst the top ten universities in the world. When I graduated high school, I thought I was an academic hotshot. I thought I'd developed enough analytical skills by the time I graduated high school, but it was in college where I really learned how to break apart and figure things out in the most methodical way possible. Looking back, I had no idea what I was doing as a freshman and sophomore in college, and really, it didn't all fall into place for me until I graduated college and had to apply my skill sets to things that were seemingly disparate from what I'd studied. So, give these "kids" a chance. You weren't always this way.

Furthermore, technology has vastly altered the way we think and operate, especially over the past decade or so. I moonlight as an instructor for SAT/AP courses in Math/Science, and at times I'm flabbergasted by their ADHD demeanor, and how dependent these "late millenials" are on their smartphones. However, accompanying the rise of the internet is an exponential rise in information quantity. Sifting through knowledge and data these days intrinsically requires an analytical thought process that transcends research a priori. These "youngsters" will have to, for better or for worse, learn to cope with unfathomably large data sets, and frankly they've been doing it since they were kids. Learning as a process is vastly different from the way even our generation (i.e. "early millenials") did it. In that sense, the onus is on us to figure out the logic behind these kids' seemingly chaotic thinking. We will end up meeting halfway.

I just think they have the "get it over and done with, fuck this shit" mentality. Some just take school for granted you know? Fortunately in my time in technical college, I rarely have to QC/redo a project because of incompetency/attitude issues.

The only issue I see with my peers despite their amazing ability(compared to mine) is their lack of creativity or a flexible approach in coming up with solutions when a group of us was attached to an engineering firm. They tend to go by the book more.

I am in a bachelor degree in Quebec and i have the same problem. Last semester in a group work, i've received from a student 15 pages of text, 1 paragraph, no footnote or anything, and at least 450 errors when i checked it. That problem is everywhere. By the way, my first language is french. 

I agree with Skyline here, but latelly i don't see kids playing outside at all.
Little children walk home from school faces in their smartphones. Not so long ago when i was little we used to do snow ball fights, play in parents cars, and fight with each other, do stuff that was not strictly allowed, but what should be part of groing up.

As the saying goes young generations are always doomed. There was the age of TV, then the era of videogaming. Now its the era of Facebook, and 9gag.
Hard to say if this era is worse than the previous ones.

I tend to think they have this mindset because of how results-driven the current education system is.

It does not promote students to seek out projects, pursue them, and get something to the finish line. They tend to be more like... "do this, don't ask why, and accept the results". This greatly diminishes students' interests in doing any research or critical thinking...

And sadly, there is no changing it.

Here's a prime example: if your GPA is not 3.0, they don't care even if you are running a successful computer business from a garage (Apple Inc.?), you will never be admitted to one of the Universities of California.

Since grades are so important, students are instead more interested in getting better grades by completing small menial tasks (making sure homework is done, reports are done, tests are taken, etc...) rather than by perfecting any of those tasks.

This doesn't have much to do with stupidity, I don't think, but rather that young folks these days are taught to simply forget perfecting something, and instead getting more done. It's the "quantity" that they care about here. Not "quality".