In Williams Zinsser’s article “College Pressures” he argues that college causes a lot of pressure on students in the 1970’s. He explains that there is so much expected from students that they just get so overwhelmed. Zinsser explains how there are different types of pressure put on students. Whether it’s economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, and self- induced pressure. Even when they have other things to do outside of school they still have to worry about their school work.…
In Article (College Pressure) 1978, William Zinsser, an American writer, editor, literary critic, and teacher, claims that there are four main college pressures that college students faced in the late 1970s, which included economic, parental, peer, and self- induced pressures. Zinsser develops this claim by first saying that we live in a brutal economy. In 1970s a 4 year institution private college tuition was $1,561. He says that students never get ahead, because after they graduate, they were working to pay off loans. Then, Zinsser discusses parental pressures by saying that the parents are pushing their children to go on to high paying professions, and then he goes into peer pressure saying "Students think that every student is working harder…
I learned that are two kind of students traditional and nontraditional. Traditional students are individuals who attend college directly after their high school without loosing time in the transition, and the non traditional students are individuals who returning back to education after at least a year's break(Dill,Henley,1998). In the study “Stressors of College: A Comparison of Traditional and Nontraditional Student”, Author Dill and Henley compared the stressors for two groups found that depression was higher in non traditional students. For adults returning to college there different roles in their life holds them back in academic journey. Whereas, traditional students have lesser health issues but higher test anxiety.…
I was intrigued with the article “College Pressures” written by William Zinsser. I was fascinated by the way Zinsser exposed the true thoughts and emotions of not only the students, but professors or anyone who deals with students. This article was interesting because it is relatable to many students. I liked this article because I connected with it on a personal level.…
College students are among a significant population who experience extremely high levels of stress. According to the CDC one out of five college students have reported being stressed (CDC, 2012). The pressures of being a successful student and maintaining good grades along with juggling work, extracurricular activities, and a social life, are all factors that cause increased levels of stress and anxiety among college students.…
Stress is a major issue for college students as they grapple with a variety of academic, personal, and social pressures. Students…
“College Pressures” by William Zinsser, the master of Branford College, one of the Residential colleges at Yale University, details the various types of stresses that today’s college students encounter. Zinsser claims that there are four different kinds of pressure: economic, parental, peer, and self-induced. The economic pressures are due to the ever-increasing high cost of a college education and the desire to get out of college with as little debt accrued as possible. Economic pressure is tied closely to parental pressure; this strain on the student is from parents pushing their children to become what they, the parents, want them to be because they are paying for the education. This causes the students to be divided on whether to do what they want to do or what their parents want them to do.…
In the article “College Pressures,” William Zinsser analysis four kinds of pressures which college students are suffered from: economic pressure, parental pressure, peer pressure, and self-induced pressure. In my view, greeting the pressures and regarding the pressures as the motivation of being better, college students can enjoy their college life.…
At the beginning of my first ever college class I was still a senior in high school, I had no idea what a professor wanted from me or how to undertake the extensive amount of weekly work. My first thought is to see how much my classmates are writing and to ask, “How many pages is yours?” I soon began to write to how much everyone else was writing instead of thinking about if I was giving the right information or not. It’s not about the length of a paper or the pre-writing, it’s about depth and giving the right information. Self-induced pressure causes students like myself to set higher standards than needed for their grades. Zinsser proclaims a very accurate statement, “A is for Admirable and B is for Borderline, even though, in Yale’s official system of grading, A means excellent and B means very good. Today, looking very good is no longer good enough.” (438). I have always been a student that anything below an A was disappointing to me. Up until my first college class I had to accept that a B was okay, it wasn’t easy after being a straight A student in high school.…
College life is often a stressful time. Nowadays college students face numbers of pressures. Most college students experience a great deal of stress dealing with their academic performance and financial status. Furthermore, college students often engage in multiple activities outside school which is certainly a stress for most students. In conclusion, college life is quite challenging, but it makes us quite disciplined.…
Going home from college for a weekend or the holidays helps ease the stress of academics, but also brings about the inevitable questions from friends and family regarding school.…
Every person will experience some degree of stress in his or her life. Stress can be healthy.…
College students are diverse in nearly every way. Students from every country of the world seek higher education. Of all the differences between college students around the world, they share one imperative similarity. Change is common to all students who are beginning a new path into education. This change results in many students developing a high level of stress for a variety of reasons. Stress is often the catalyst for developing mental illnesses a person is genetically predisposed to. “Up to 30 percent of adolescents have at least one episode of [depression], and 50 to 75 percent of adolescents with anxiety, impulse control, and hyperactivity disorders develop them during the teenage years” (Iliades). This means that the most likely time…
Freshman college students entering college seeing the intensity of classes, homework, exams, making friends and more. They are getting stressed out and trying to figure out college plus where to fit in. The professors are giving out so much homework, lecturing all the time, and test are comes. The homework is not due for couple of days or weeks for now and freshman are procating to do it. As they wait for the last minute to due their work and most of students staying up all night to do it which makes them sleep in class. This is all tell tell signs of lack of maturity, lack of a study plan, and no real sign of time management according to NACADA. Freshman college students are have new sense of being an adulthood means that no one to tell them when to go to bed, study or even to do homework. All these actions turn their stress and anxiety levels high and affects their hygiene and mood. Freshman college students going to have figure it…
Being a student can be the most exhilarating time of your life. New friends, new places, new challenges can all add up to a huge buzz. But all those things can also make student life seem a total nightmare. Financial worries, debt, exam pressure, burden of homework, relationship problem, parental pressure and so on, these all together buildup students' stress, which can overwhelm any student. Stress is one of the biggest problems and challenges facing students who seek to get a good education today.…