Stressing Out When School is Almost Over
Victoria Holda
Issue date: 12/1/07 Section: Blogs
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Finals are extremely stressful. What I don't understand is why we do this to ourselves. Why do we spread ourselves out so thin? Some students go so far as to take 15 credit hours while others 'bite off more than they can chew' by attempting to take 20. That's really pushing it. What happens when these students leave school? How do they keep from screaming throughout the day? Why do they take the huge chance of having a major breakdown?
Instead of enjoying the holidays and getting fatter with our families, students are stuck in their dark bedrooms studying for their exit exams or writing 10 page english papers that should have been started months before. Doing poorly in courses at Wright often ends in the dreaded dropping.
As a full-time student who has to pay for her own education and has to hold an outside job just to save money for school, it's extremely frustrating when dropping a class. Going on my.ccc.edu and clicking the drop button is close to the feeling of getting your puppy taken away from you when you were 5. Dropping a class when there are less than four weeks of school left is like taking a walk of shame from the Arts building to the Science building. Then, after we've dropped our pre-credit classes and our environmental biology courses, we are left with this horrible guilt thinking, "Why did I do that?!" and "When should I take this stupid class again?"
There are those of us who struggle with 12 credits on our shoulders and those of us who pass with flying colors and 16 credit hours...And HOW? Attempting to figure out how people can handle more than three classes is mind boggling. Who knows if these students have full-time or part-time jobs? Who knows who even paid for their classes? Many lucky ladies and gentlemen have the luxury of Mom and Dad paying for courses, giving them the opportunity to drop and miss class as much as they want. Unfortunately, some of us don't even know what 'a free ride' feels like.
How do students relieve stress? A lot of college students probably have their fair share of sex or masturbation (lmao) while others go outside to either smoke, cry or scream until they have no voice left.
Instead of enjoying the holidays and getting fatter with our families, students are stuck in their dark bedrooms studying for their exit exams or writing 10 page english papers that should have been started months before. Doing poorly in courses at Wright often ends in the dreaded dropping.
As a full-time student who has to pay for her own education and has to hold an outside job just to save money for school, it's extremely frustrating when dropping a class. Going on my.ccc.edu and clicking the drop button is close to the feeling of getting your puppy taken away from you when you were 5. Dropping a class when there are less than four weeks of school left is like taking a walk of shame from the Arts building to the Science building. Then, after we've dropped our pre-credit classes and our environmental biology courses, we are left with this horrible guilt thinking, "Why did I do that?!" and "When should I take this stupid class again?"
There are those of us who struggle with 12 credits on our shoulders and those of us who pass with flying colors and 16 credit hours...And HOW? Attempting to figure out how people can handle more than three classes is mind boggling. Who knows if these students have full-time or part-time jobs? Who knows who even paid for their classes? Many lucky ladies and gentlemen have the luxury of Mom and Dad paying for courses, giving them the opportunity to drop and miss class as much as they want. Unfortunately, some of us don't even know what 'a free ride' feels like.
How do students relieve stress? A lot of college students probably have their fair share of sex or masturbation (lmao) while others go outside to either smoke, cry or scream until they have no voice left.
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J.P.
posted 12/04/07 @ 5:13 PM CST
I typically play Halo to relieve stress. There's nothing like blowing up complete strangers or assassinating your buddies over and over again at the end of a hard day. (Continued…)
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