“College Pressures” by William Zinsser

In the essay “College Pressures” by William Zinsser is very true because college can be very stressful. Some of the pressures that people go through are financial aid, getting good grades to have a good GPA, and making time to finish all the homework from all your classes. Also a lot of people are shy and have a lot of stress making new friends, presenting a project in front of the class, keeping up with due dates, and taking tests.

I think this essay is a little off from today because this essay talks about stresses from parents making their child study something they don’t want to. Nowadays most parents are happy that one goes to college, so for them it doesn’t really matter what career one study. The other pressure mention in the essay such as peer pressure is very common in college, but in a weird way it can be good. For example, bad peer pressure can be students telling you to leave class early to go out with them and to not study and etc, but good peer pressure can be your friend saying they are smarter than you because that will make you want to study and do good in class.

In my opinion I think that sometimes professors don’t realize how much work he gives us and that we got to deal with other classes and sometimes we just don’t have enough time to do everything. Some professors expect us to be the best and do everything perfect but we can’t with the time limit and other things we got to do. I think this essay was good, but college pressure is a lot more than what the essay mentioned because the author left a lot of things unsaid. I think there should be a class or a lesson for freshmen, so new students in college can learn how to be able to control or lower their college pressure because if you have to much stress or something you wont do as well in college; therefore, its important to be able to control one self better. Also, I believe that they should put more people in financial aid, so student won’t have to waste like 3 hours waiting in line to talk to someone for help. In addition, I think that professor should be more understanding and give us a few tries or getaway if they notice that the student really put effort in the class. Finally, I think professor should make their test less definitions and more about the overall meaning of the chapter, such as make sure we understand what we read, but not expert us to memorize every single word and definition because in my opinion it is dumb and once we take the test we will forget while knowing the overall plot will stay with us for a longer time and sometimes even forever; plus, is not like we are majoring in that field or something that we need to know everything about the chapter. College pressures is a big thing in college students and something should be done to make students relax and enjoy college more and not have to worry about GPA or school worries.