Aaah so much college work!

Why is it that college teachers will set you no work for weeks on end, then suddenly all of them will set you an assignment in the same week and expect it due in the week after. It’s like they all think that none of us have anything better to do with our time than work on things for them; at the same time they each individually think that their subject is obviously the most important and that their work should take precedence over everything else, this includes subject essential coursework and even exams. This really frustrates me.

Like many college students I have a part time job, mostly so I can afford to get myself to college and back, but not one college subject takes that into account. They will all set work and say, I want it in for this time and I might say to them, well that’s impossible because I can’t do everything at once, but all they tell me is that I will have to manage. Seriously? That is their brilliant solution? A classic example of this comes from the New College Sociology department who in their infinite wisdom have decided to rerun the massively unpopular talk about the exams, given by a chief examiner. Last year this was an entire day’s worth of torture, from which most people escaped half way through the day, it was too terrible to sit through. We all told the Sociology Department what we thought of their day and despite our comments they are running it again and telling us that we have to miss lessons to attend. Stuff you Sociology. Not only would going to that lecture make me miss some lessons that are actually important but it would also send me home an hour later than normal meaning that I have to miss work. No thank you.

Nobody gains anything but stress from the amount of pressure that college education adds to the general turmoil that is life as a teenager. If anything it makes the entire transition from child into adult so much harder, who wants to grow up when it turns out to be such a ball ache? As it is I’ve decided that this weekend I will do no work at all. I know that there is work due in but I’m going to do it on my terms and spend my anniversary weekend with my boyfriend rather than doing some crappy piece of homework that will not benefit my life in any way. Perhaps if you decide to make the work worthwhile I will spend more of my valuable free hours giving a damn about it.

For now, I’m going to finish crocheting Pac Man and the ghosts that go with him.