The Pressure Of College Students

Pressure is like a emotional virus that constantly challenges a person through life. College students are imposed with numerous pressures. In college there are multiple rises and falls for students; therefore, college students often struggle striving for success. College students have aspirations of achieving their dreams and to obtain a enjoyable career. Collegiants are challenged with multiple strains including academic pressure, financial pressure, peer pressure and these pressures determine the outcome of a student's success. Firstly, parents inform college students to acquire A's and B's thout considering the stress that goes alongside those grades. The academic pressure established upon those students can be gastly. Some...show more content...

Secondly, Colleges are businesses and so they require a tremendous heap of money. Various students have issues financially paying for a college education. Therefore, students stress over the financial aspect of college. John Kelly says "The reasons given under financial factors were commonly that they received too little financial aid or they mismanaged their personal finances"(1). Some college students don't receive enough financial support to attend college. So collegiants take out loans to pay for tuition. For students it is tough to maintain an income while in college;so, students debts are increasing while they attend school. Students have pay for housing, food, water and other things the students need. Some students select not to attend college because of the overbearing cost. For college students they constantly worry about producing money to pay back loans. These worries can cohere a student to have anxiety and depression affecting the ability to perform in their academics. According to a survey "Those that listed employment issues as a factor either found that they did not have time to balance both college and work or that they needed to work"(Kelly 1). With increasing debt and no income stress rises. Even if a student graduates, the financial pressure of college remains with students after they graduate. Financial debt will pressure students and harp on their success and goals. Finally, Get more content

"College Pressure" by William Zinsser is a beautiful piece of writing with a fairly straightforward manner that students are too much worried about making money other than choosing something they love to do.Also he talks that student are stressing to much about their future and are under so much pressure to be on the top.He conveys his message by using ethos and pathos.

The article "College Pressure" begins with notes from students asking for advice from the dean of Branford College which is a residential campus at YaleUniversity. It tells about few examples out of hundreds of messages which student send to Dean for advice and help. This pressure between students not only occur at Branford College but all the school and colleges around...show more content...

Zinsser tells an very interesting story that dean told him that letter he used to get in 1960's were mostly about why the world is suffering and what can they do to make a better place to live but nowadays most of the letters are about student asking about their majors and what classes do they need to get into law school.

The message he wants to convey in this essay is quite simple that parents shouldn't put so much pressure on the students and try to support there them as much as possible.As student have enough on their minds before.

Also not all students can take this pressure and due to this depression and anxiety between college students are increasing.This even leads to suicide

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