SEE ALSO: 10 Struggles Only a Pitt Student Would Understand 10. Pro: Your bed isn’t there so there’s less of a temptation to sleep.Con: Your bed isn’t there. 9. Pro: You’re surrounded by other studious students who are motivating you to work hard too.Con: You’re surrounded by students who treat it as a coffee shop or an outdoor market.
Today, we live in a world where seven and eight year-olds attend duel-immersion schools, on the track to becoming fluent in Spanish. One-year-olds take Mandarin, thirteen-year-olds are on the road to the olympics, and 15 year-olds give Ted talks. It is impossible to ignore the advanced and competitive world in which we live. From the earliest ages, children are thrown into instant competition with their peers. They have no idea the boys and girls that they play handball with at recess will be the same young men and women they will be competing against for college admissions, and eventually, jobs. This sense of competition only develops further as these children enter their college years, facing an entirely new set of stresses and pressures. College, at one time, was a unique opportunity for students to take some classes, grow up, and realize what they wanted to do with the rest of
There are a variety of emotions that we all feel when studying. Sometimes you’ll be confident in yourself, sometimes you’ll be lazy, sometimes you’ll be mad because you can’t seem to grasp onto the concepts, other times you’re not even studying, etc. But if you’re anything like me, you end up sending emojis to people more than you actually study. 7. When you first start studying. You realize you have plenty of time to study and you’re confident that you’ll ace the exam you have coming up. Since you have so much time and you’re sure you’ll do well, you end up spending most of your time in conversations with friends, watching Netflix, or anything else to kill time before you actually need to start studying. 6. When you realize it’s later than you thought. You thought you had plenty of time to study, but then you realized that your time slipped away from you and now you
College is back in full swing so that means everyone has their textbooks and is now facing the repercussions of having to spend hundreds of dollars on them. When you already have to spend thousands of dollars on tuition, room, and board no one wants to spend a couple hundred more on heavy textbooks that you’ll have to lug around to class every day. Then, to make it worse, your professors tell you that you have to buy every book because you’ll need them, but half of the time you barely even touch them. All that textbooks really end up doing is giving you back problems, headaches, and stress. Granted there are those few classes where you end up relying on your textbook to pass every test, but they’re still just a pain to buy.
There are times in life when we try to explain a story that we think is hilarious to our friends, but halfway through we find ourselves saying “you just had to be there”. College life isn’t much different. So to everyone at Hofstra University: this one’s for you. 20. Walking to your class in the Hofstra Dome can basically count as your workout for the day. 19. Having classes in the dungeon basement of any building. 18. Thursday night means Ladies Night and the start of a great weekend. 17. Getting Sbarro’s after a night of drinking. 16. Your love/hate relationship with the Unispan.
