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Due to my uncanny similarity with the group of college students William Zinsser described in his essay “College Pressures,” his words induced within me feelings of guilt and regret. Throughout my years of schooling, there have been many occasions in which I have labored to a maximum which resulted in an almost unbearable amount of stress and panic. Oftentimes, I credited this anxiety to my teachers who assigned many projects and tests; or to the School Board that made continuous changes to the learning curriculum and expectations for “success.” At the beginning of his essay while he elaborated on his thesis, William Zinsser, master of Branford College, countered this thinking, “It is easy to look around for villains -- to blame colleges… the…
The reader can be easily confused when Zinsser first begins the essay. It starts off with someone writing notes to someone else, but who is speaking? Zinsser then follows this by fully explaining who is writing the notes, a student, and who he is talking to, his dean. He is explaining that the student is full of pressure and feels he cannot take it anymore. Zinsser makes the essay move along smoothly with the use of rhetorical questions and then answers them to prove a point he is making. The classical appeal Zinsser uses in College Pressure is ethos. He is telling the parents what is going on in the minds of the students and the pressures they build up for themselves.…
Zinssers intentions on writing "College Pressures" was to publicly inform people of the constant pressures students face while attending college, in hopes that it will provoke change in the stressful way that students have to obtain their education. He successfully gets his point across through the use of anecdotal evidence, tone, and ethos to persuade readers that college pressures negatively impact…
“College Pressures” written by William Zinsser is an essay about the pressures college students were facing back in 1979. These pressures are still relevant today and fit into just four categories which include economic, peer, self-induced, and parental. Zinsser went into detail with each category providing examples from his own experience and the experience of others as evidence. Out of all the different pressures addressed in the essay I would say that economic pressure is most limiting today.…
Today, many students like myself all over the America have walked down the hectic aisles of high school and have sat in some of the largest lecture halls in college. As kids, we were somewhat taught that going to school and getting an education would be the key to our success and thought that if we didn’t fulfill these expectations, we would end up homeless and live a terrible life. For so many years during my educational career this was the mentality that I believed in. Although this may be over exaggerated, I believe that this may hold some truth to the many college students all over the world. It is almost like we volunteer to go into debt and deal with all the stress that a college education brings us because we feel like it will get us…
William Zinsser’s in his essay “College Pressure” published 1979, describes the pressures Yale students have economic, parental, and peer/self- induced. He says that these pressures make students afraid to take a risk and to try to take different paths. He wants them to believe in themselves and to try to enjoy their time in college. I have been a student at Reedley Community College for two years and the pressure I experience as a student and a mother are different from that the Yale student experienced.…
Analyze pressures often faced in adolescence, such as peer pressure, substance use and abuse, dating, sexuality, and changes within family relationships.…
Have you ever wondered what's the biggest challenge facing students today and how it can be addressed? College can be a egregious chapter of a young scholars life. I believe a college student financial situation is what's faced today. One's finances can be the cause of stress, and loan debt. Numerous students with low-income face financial deficiency.…
With living costs as high as they are in this day and age, it is completely unreasonable to expect the average individual to squander already limited resources. Receiving a bachelor's degree today requires an assortment of classes that often are not directly related to one's career objectives. For some, they find this to be an enjoyable adventure, broadening their knowledge and learning about new aspects of life, but for others this is just burdensome. However it is looked upon, the college curriculum still requires a diverse selection of courses to develop well rounded, responsible individuals, but in turn creates added pressure upon students.…
Entering school as a freshman nobody truly comprehends what is in store in the feeling of meeting new individuals, how to handle being far from home, flexibility and so forth. At times this could turn into an issue. The writer, William Zinsser, proposed to readers that freshman for the most part experience peer pressure. I accept that any school understudy could face peer pressure unless they talk up and make themselves heard. Nonetheless, Zinsser implied peer pressure in the feeling of competing with a companion scholastically. In the article, Zinsser specified how a dean had brought it to his consideration that two freshman young ladies came to him under pressure in light of the fact that they accepted that their companion was much brighter and concentrated on constantly. Much to their dismay they had both said the same thing in regards to one another! The story implied a few things to me. The primary being that in light of the fact that the young ladies accept their associate was showing improvement over they were, they were eager to work harder. Something else I got from this story is that you may not be the main individual battling as a freshman or as a college student.…
pressure to succeed may be to get high grades, get a good job, be accepted into…
Life today has become increasingly complex and tension ridden. It is the era of speed, rapid changes, never ending wishes and desires, which sometimes results in stress anxiety, negativity and depression. When we think about college students, they may have the best time of their life in the college. During this period they have chance for maximum personal growth which will be used for…
It is impossible to become relax under such pressure. If students want to be admitted to top universities,…
Parent Pressure is the main reason why teenagers are forced to study and achieved their parents expectations. But there were some students that were pressured by their parents for…