My Little Plate

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Lisa Chase

Undergraduate/History

What the hell is on the average college professor’s mind, trying to cram all their extra assignments in at the end of a semester? Don’t they know that we aren’t just in their classes but on average in four other classes as well? Professors from what I have observed in the six classes that I am taking this semester, they all and I do mean all, cram so many assignments at the end that I think my brain might explode.

I understand that most professors think that this is the only class because theirs is the "best" and the only one that is important. Well newsflash professors, we pretty much take your class because we have to in order to graduate. Some students take classes because they think that they are interesting but most of them don’t. The professors that wait until the last three weeks of school to hand out so many assignments and only give the students about a week to do them are crazy. Just a little FYI to the professors, in order to be a full time student we have to take a minimum of 12 credits or four to five classes, so why do you think that we are only taking your class? Besides that we aren’t just going to college, we are involved in extracurricular things on campus as well as volunteering, we also have to make the money to go to college, that means working as much as 30 hours a week to make the money to go here.

I also would like to bring up the fact that the professors don’t give many assignments out in the first half of the semester but pile them up in the end. The one thing that gets me madder than the assignment thing is the fact that professors will give assignments but then complain that they have to grade them. Don’t give them the May 6th - September 9th 7

fuck out if you don’t want to grade them. Hell if I was a professor I would want fewer things to grade at the end so I could go on vacation early not more things to grade.

I named this piece my little plate, because most people take on more than we can chew. Like at a buffet, you can either take the dinner plate and have a lot of food on it or you can take the salad plate like me and have just enough. Well my little plate is not so little anymore. It has grown into a very large dinner plate because of all the assignments I have to do. My one friend is under so much stress that she has shingles, but yet I see her at every class period even though she is sick. What the professors don’t take into consideration is why would any student want to go through this every semester, it is hurting their college experience. I don’t want to pay about $10,000 a year to have so much stress that I become sick.

I think that professors have to take in to consideration that yes, you have students and you want to teach them the most about the subject but this isn’t the students’ only class. I took a history class last year and the professors assigned all the projects, papers, and quizzes at the beginning of the semester so while the other classes were pilling on the assignments, this professor got to sit back and relax not having to worry about grading something at the very last minute. Wouldn’t you think that professors don’t want to have so many things to grade at the end, well I would. I think the professors will be better off with the students and themselves by having more assignments at the beginning, and hell, Crest Health Services wouldn’t be so busy at the end of the semester.


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