Students are supposed to work as hard as they can but at the end they could have done better.
The whole day turns around classes and things that have to be done. It is just the first week of classes at Winthrop University and the mind of students is already getting crazy about all the things they have to do.
Every day, Stefanie Walker, a 20-year-old business student from Charleston, puts together a list with things she has to do. “It feels good when I completed one thing of my list and can erase it,” Walker says, “but it does not take long and one of my professors gives me another assignment and my list grows longer again.”
Even though for most students at Winthrop University this is not the first semester of college but it is easy to forget how overwhelming especially the first days of classes can be. Students walk from one classroom to another and listen to their new professors who talk about all the assignments, presentations, essays and exams they have to take this semester.
Professors want that students stay on track with the syllabus so that they won’t struggle later on. So they try to make sure that students stay on top of their readings, think ahead about their essays and assignments, and start to work on their presentations and research papers as early as possible.
After a four months summer break without any lectures and books, this is too much at a time.
Walker says, “Often there is not enough time to finish all the things and I wished I could stop the time so that I could turn in my best work. That is why I always try to do things as soon as possible because you never know what else professors expect from you.”
