Why do we keep getting all our major assignments in a one-week period?
It’s the question on every freshman’s mind
Us freshmen just finished our first prelim season, and most of us are finally beginning to destress from two weeks of misery and are bouncing back to our normal, cheery, 18 and 19-year-old selves.
But then, something terrible happened. We looked at our upcoming schedule.
BAM! Prelim. BAM! Essay. BAM! Another essay. BAM! Two more prelims. BAM! An in-class presentation. And the kicker? All in the span of five days.
Tears began to well up into our eyes, as we realized that this our happiness will be short-lived. Soon, we will be thrust back into the dark, desolate world of studying six hours a day just to get mediocre at best grades on most everything we’re assigned. I personally started calculating my income if I didn’t go to college, if the benefits of college outweighed the financial and emotional toll it takes on you, when I realized something:
Whose idea is this?
Why am I sitting here right now at 4:45 PM on a Monday with all of my homework done writing an article for The Tab when in two weeks, I’ll barely have enough free time to eat two meals a day? Is there a reason that all major assignments are put so close together? Are teachers forced to put all this work into such a short period of time? Is the entire college experience secretly some sort of test to see if you can survive the pressure of having an insane amount of work and not enough time to do it? Is that the real world preparation we get out of this?
To be honest, I am a little bit angry. I think schedules like this are a terrible idea, and purposefully creating this much anxiety among young students cannot be healthy for our developments. This is how amphetamine addictions are created. This is why college kids start smoking cigarettes. This kills anybody’s love for learning they may have previously existed and replaces it with a hatred for school. So, for one final question, I would like ask whatever omnipotent body that created the concept of prelim season if the benefits truly outweigh the toll it takes on our young, previously blossoming, minds.