Pressures on Students Today In his essay “College Pressures” William Zinsser exposes the pressures that college students faced at Yale University in the 1970s. He categorizes the pressures into four types: economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, and self-induced pressure. He also explains how these pressures impact the students in a bad way, causing them to narrow down their minds into one small path rather than finding their true interests. His intention isn’t only to understand these
Tarkan-Blanco ENC 1102 13 May 2012 Reading Response One In “College Pressures”, William Zinsser shares his personal experiences as a dean in Bradford College, in hopes of breaking the pressures induced to college students, and stopping the erroneous idea in Zinsser’s view, “How one appears on paper is more important than how one appears in person.” (452) Zinsser believes that college years should be a joyful, enriching, and cultural experience to college students instead of an agonizing mapped road towards
College Pressures In William Zinsser’s essay College Pressures he identifies multiply, sources of stress faced in college. “I see four kinds of pressure working on college students today: economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, and self-induced pressure” (Zinsser 510). Zinsser argues that students themselves must reduce the pressure they face. Although College Pressures was first published in 1979, it still relates to college students today. Also the author’s description of Yale students
“It feels good to be under pressure, they help me to motivate me as well as improve my academic results.” “I remembered I was under pressure until I couldn’t even make any decisions!” “I was thinking of committing suicide when I was a freshman, I talked to a counsellor and thank god he helped me to eliminate that childish thinking of mine.” Everyone is under some kind of pressures. College students, of course, are going through some difficulties or obstacles which result to positive and negative
September 2009 College Pressures Like most high school students about to graduate, thinking of the shift from living at home to a more free campus environment and the amount of responsibility and work college would demand, created mixed emotions in me. Although I was filled with enthusiasm and excitement to start a new chapter in my life, I was also scared of the unknown. I often wondered if I was going to be able to live up to my parents and friends expectations. I was expecting college to be learning
What is evil according to Simone Weil? What is evil? How can we define it and under which circumstances? Evil can be defined by each person differently. For someone evil is just doing some bad things, however other can define it as death, war and so on. Understanding of evil depends on people’s religion, sex, age, race, mental prowess and social position. There is no certain definition of evil, but I found one definition from all of these which I liked the most: “the quality or an instance of being
Rethinking College Pressures In his essay "College Pressures" William Zinsser describes the pressure students faced at an elite private college in the 1979. He argues that college students faced economic, parental, peer, and self-induced pressure. Who is to blame for all the pressures the students need to handle? Zinsser blames the college for economic pressure by stating the college charge too much for tuition and all other fees. He blame parents having great hopes for
Students have different types of pressure when it comes to college. Students can succeed or fail on the way they handle pressure. Some take pressure as a motive to get better grades and think of it as a goal and others are never going to overcome the barriers and fail. Pressure can come from family, friends, and work. Family pressure can come from parents. Parents are demanding their child to make good grades so they can have a better future. Parents assume if they put pressure on the kid they will be outstanding
Illustration Essay College students face a number of pressures There is no doubt that today's college life is way more stressful than how it used to be. Technology has made everything easier and saved our time. On the other hand, it added to the pressures that we're facing. Researchers have emphasized that nowadays students are struggling up to manage between their social life and their academic studies duties. The research mentioned a story of a student who has been failing for 9 years because
Peer Pressure, Alcohol, and the College Student Peer pressure is occurring in everyday situations from work environments to school actions and everything in-between. However it seems that the most impacted by it are college students. The college world is filled with excitement and new adventures. Students leave their homes to live the dream of living alone and taking on the world. The world they have been dreaming suddenly becomes a reality and soon they start meeting new people and realizing new