The Concordian

As much as teachers claim to understand the pressure that students are under at the end of every semester, many of them don’t seem to want to take some of the pressure off. As a student who has been here at Concord for four years, I cannot think of even one semester when I haven’t been forced to do tons of work clear up until the day of finals. As a matter of fact, it seems that most of my semester work is due just the week before finals. That’s not to say that I have problems with semester-long projects and papers. I just wish that teachers would understand that we need a little bit of time between the due date for these papers and our exams. Maybe if teachers would just ask that these long-term projects be due about two weeks before the end of classes, life would be just a little less hectic for students.

Another pet peeve I have about the end of the semester is that, despite the long-term assignments that are assigned and the finals we are getting ready for, teachers continue to assign projects at the last minute. This makes it extremely difficult for students to get everything done. I know that I usually end up spending the last two or so weeks of class staying up till all hours of the night and waking up at about 8:00 every morning just so that I can get everything done. This, in my eyes, is unacceptable. I know that we are in college and that classes are supposed to be difficult, but when there simply are not enough hours in the day to get all my assignments done (no matter how hard I work at it) there’s a problem.

I guess what I’m trying to say by putting all this out there is that I wish teachers would give students a little leeway. If you know that it’s the end of the semester and you can hear students griping about how much work they already have to do, maybe you could cut them a little slack and have them read twenty pages that night instead of forty. I can almost guarantee that they will: A) love you and B) not fall asleep in the next class (because hopefully they can get some sleep now).

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