I suspect that some students suffer stress at school because they haven’t learned to prioritize their work load. Students are in school to get their degree for their future life, but many think they can live a full social life while trying to get that degree. This leads to sleep deprivation, bad diets and too much alcohol. In my days at St. Thomas in the late 40’s, there was not much school related stress, since the majority of the students then were returned GIs who were totally intent on getting that degree and getting out to work and on with their lives. We who were not returned GIs had all we could do to concentrate on our school work just to keep up with these intense students. I believe that those who concentrate on the job at hand as they will have to do later in the work world will not experience the stress that the others do. My opinion, but with many years of experience.
Dick, you left out the part about the GIs having the support of the GI Bill, and you left out the part about your going to school at the beginning of the greatest sustained economic boom of the century. You also left out the part about today’s students having to go to work at time of stagnant wages and having to support an expensive system of social supports for an increasing number of retirees. Today’s students also pay tuition costs that have far outstripped inflation, meaning your education was a bargain comparatively.
Students today live in a dangerous time. With sickening regularity, someone goes off the rails and shoots up a college campus, never mind ISIS or some other domestic terrorist.
Your comment implies not so subtly that something is wrong with today’s generation of students. But fortunately for you, you don’t have to live their lives. And I doubt you’ve spent time recently in a class room, so maybe you don’t know what your talking about.
Thanks! These are great.
I suspect that some students suffer stress at school because they haven’t learned to prioritize their work load. Students are in school to get their degree for their future life, but many think they can live a full social life while trying to get that degree. This leads to sleep deprivation, bad diets and too much alcohol. In my days at St. Thomas in the late 40’s, there was not much school related stress, since the majority of the students then were returned GIs who were totally intent on getting that degree and getting out to work and on with their lives. We who were not returned GIs had all we could do to concentrate on our school work just to keep up with these intense students. I believe that those who concentrate on the job at hand as they will have to do later in the work world will not experience the stress that the others do. My opinion, but with many years of experience.
Dick, you left out the part about the GIs having the support of the GI Bill, and you left out the part about your going to school at the beginning of the greatest sustained economic boom of the century. You also left out the part about today’s students having to go to work at time of stagnant wages and having to support an expensive system of social supports for an increasing number of retirees. Today’s students also pay tuition costs that have far outstripped inflation, meaning your education was a bargain comparatively.
Students today live in a dangerous time. With sickening regularity, someone goes off the rails and shoots up a college campus, never mind ISIS or some other domestic terrorist.
Your comment implies not so subtly that something is wrong with today’s generation of students. But fortunately for you, you don’t have to live their lives. And I doubt you’ve spent time recently in a class room, so maybe you don’t know what your talking about.