Working Students Essay

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Anthony Ornelas English 100 14 November 2012 Working Students Staying up late to do homework is an everyday thing for many of today’s college students, and it’s not like they have a choice, if they want to pay for school then they have to work. In the article “Students Who Push Burgers,” by Walter Minot, the author argues his stance that when students work in addition to going to school; their grades suffer as a result. As a full time student and a full time worker myself, I agree whole heartedly with his position, but I also disagree with some of his implications in his body paragraphs. Minot states that “working students have little time for homework,” (par. 8) and also says “I know that students who work all evening aren’t ready for studying when they get home from work.” (par. 2) I could not agree more had I wrote those statements myself. In addition to going to school full time, I also have a full time job and a part time job, plus little odd jobs that I pick up on the side. My day starts at four o’clock in the morning, and by the time I get home, shower, and eat dinner, I am usually too tired to focus properly on my homework and as a direct result of this, the quality of my schoolwork has been taking a severe hit. In some of his supporting paragraphs, Minot infers to his belief that students work only to buy the things that their parents will not buy them, or that students “feel that they deserve to have fun – instead of spending all of their free time studying.” These implications and statements he makes annoy me. Minot speaks as though students have a choice, that they do not really have to work, but only choose to, so that they can make frivolous purchases on items that are not even necessary, just luxuries that they want. I, for example, have no choice because I have no backup plan; I don’t have mommy and daddy there to support me. My only choice
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