Picture a typical, hard-working student. Each day she recieves multiple
assignments to complete for homework. She is involved in several
extracurricular activities so she doesn’t have much extra time. After sports
practice, she struggles home, ladden with books, to begin studying. On a
typical evening she has to work diligently for a couple of hours to complete
her homework for school the next day. She has a rigorous schedule that
includes honors and advanced placement classes so some nights she is
forced to stay up very late to keep up with her classes. Other nights she has
an extra packet of work to complete for her SAT Prep course. All this work
puts a lot of pressure on her. This may not seem like anything out of the
ordinary and for many students it’s not. The push to be overachievers and
get into the top colleges has caused many high school students to take on
heavier workloads and more challenging classes. This push to achieve,
however, doesn’t end once students reach college. In fact, once they reach
the top schools they worked so hard to get into, many students are forced to
work even harder than they did in high school and instead of the push to get
into the top college, it becomes the push to get into the top graduate school.
should high school student work part-time?
Nowadays, there are more and more students work part-time job in their free time. Actually, a part-time job can provide money and working experience to them. But it partly disturbs their study as well. So the high school students should not be encouraged to have a part-time job because of the following reasons. Firstly, most high school students are too young to work. Specifically, they still lack ...
Graduate students at the country’s top schools, in turn, find that they must
continue to overextend themselves in order to secure the top jobs in their
particular field. As you can see, there is something wrong. America’s
educational system is seriously flawed because it puts too much emphasis
on measuring achievement and not enough on true learning.
The problem starts as early as middle school and perhaps even before.
Students are weighed down with lengthy homework assignments, which
may involve hours of thewir time each night. In fact, U.S. students now
have more homework than ever before and it starts atan ealrier age.
Specialists, teachers, and parents alike tend to agree that homework is a very
important tool. They say that the amount of homewrok students do as
middle and high schoolers leads directly to their success rate in the future.
Many studies have been done to prove the positive effects of homework.
Some show that students who do more work score better on standardized
tests. Homework these days has come to be a measurement, a way in which
parents and techers can judge how good an education their students are
getting. The standard rule is the more homewrok the better the value of
education. After all, parents and teachers alike want to see their students do
well and that means scoring highly on standardized tests and getting into the
best colleges. This is the way our society measures the success of its
students and everyone wants to be successful so the push lately has been to
encourage students to take on more challenging classes and this provides
them with more homework.
In a recent TIME magazine article,
During the past four decades, the suicide rate for teenagers and young
adults has more than tripled. Suicide has become the second leading cause
of death among college students. It is hard to investigate the actual causes of
college suicides because while the statistics are rising and a few shocking
stories have caught our attention, the number of deaths at any given school
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is very small and thus in-depth inquiries are very seldom done, but there are
several factors which can increase the risk of suicide substantially. Foreign
students are more prone to suicide than natives because many they become
isolated. They often can’t find any familiar cultural or family ties in their
new environment and thus concentrate solely on their work. Those with
suicidal tendencies may be more difficult to recognize in a college setting
because instead of being impulsive and out of control, college students who
are suicidal tend to be withdrawn, quiet, and to draw little attention to
themselves. Those students who move beyond depression to suicide, may
fantasize of a better world waiting for them. They are often very resistant to
seeking help because they see it as a weakness(Lipschitz).
The academic stress faced by college students these days is perhaps
higher than ever before. They are faced with a new situation when they
reach college and must then struggle to keep up with their new environment.
Many college students begin to feel worthless. They measure themselves
only by academic or athletic success. This can distort their perception of
reality and cause them to blow things out of proportion. The change in
attitude may not even be noticeable to close firends because students who
begin to feel overwhelmed and hopeless tend to hide their feelings by
immersing themselves in work. As stated early they will usually not seek the
help of for example, a guidance counselor, because they do not want to
seem weak. This feeling of hopelessness can become a big problem in
situations where students are expected to perform at a very high calibar for a
long period of time.
Jason Altom, considered an extremely gifted graduate
student at Harvard University, killed himself last August. He drank a liquid
laced with cyanide, that he obtained from the chemistry lab, in which he was
doing his doctorate work. He was possibly the brightest student in the
chemistry program, he had been accepted into the most exclusive lab group,
and his doctorate project was harder than anything the other students had
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choosen, so it was a shock to learn of his death. The news of his death, and
the content of the three suicide notes he left, one to his parents, on to the
Chair of Harvard’s chemistry department, and one to his student advisor,
spread quickly. His advisor just happened to be world famous, Nobel
laureate, Elias J. Corey. Corey was notorious for being one of the most strict
professors in the department and he certainly had high expectations. The
note Altom had left for his parents was eventually shared with a Harvard
newspaper. It shocked his friends and fellow classmates by saying that his
death could have been avoided. Altom’s note stated that his student advisor,
Corey, had had too much control over his future. He wanted Harvard to set
up a new system which would distribute the power to other key people and
he wqanted a committee set up to monitor the quality of life for graduate
students. At Harvard, the student advisor watches over the student as the
student does his doctorate work. In the end, it is almost solely the advisor
who decides whether or not a student gets a diploma. Another power student
advisors have is recommendation. Without a letter of recommendation from
from someone many students find it harder to get jobs once they have
graduated. Since their student advisor is the only person who regularly
monitors their work, the student advisor is usually the only one qualified to
write a letter of recommendation. In this system it is easy to see how a
student could feel over whelmed by the power his student advisor had over
him and dismayed if he percieved some ill will between the two. Altom had
been having trouble in the final stages of his doctoral work. He had choosen
an especially challenging project for himself. He had to sythesize to
different molecules and then bond them together. He had completed in
sythesizing both molecules, but could not successfully bond them together.
The Essay on Richard Corey Death Life Frost
Raised fists and a fading smile usually follow the confrontation of death as we experience the first stages of denial in the grieving process. We not only grieve at the loss of a loved one, but at the loss of our own life as well. When death rears its ugly head, it demands this response. Whether through art or science, humor or ritual, mankind marks and confronts this passage with both defiance ...
Aparently, Altom felt that Corey was unhappy with his progress. He had
shared his concerns with some firends, but no one knew the magnitude of
his anxiety. Obviously, none of them ever thought he would go to the
extent he did and many wonder if this incident should be a warning to us.
Harvard and other top schools, where the pressure is intense, have begun to
implement changes to counteract several recent deaths, similar to Jason
Altom’s. The stress he felt, as one of the brightest students, at arguably the
best school in the country, should give some insight into what other
students, who perhaps have a harder time keeping up,
