Sometimes I seriously question whether my college professors were actually ever college students, or if they are just oblivious to the fact take I am taking other classes besides theirs. I have always felt that way, especially when they expect me to dedicate four hours a night to their class — like, let me just add 10 hours to the day in order to allocate four hours per day to each of my classes, sleep the recommended eight hours a night, eat, and attempt to exercise and live a healthy lifestyle. It's impossible.
With spring break approaching, my loathsome feelings towards professors and workload have ever increased.
Just the other day, one of my professors assigned a creative project that is due on Easter Sunday and accounts for 30% of my grade. She went on to show us examples and what the expectations were and ended with saying, “I hope this doesn’t take up your entire spring break because spring break should really be about relaxing and taking the week off.” I literally laughed out loud. She completely just contradicted herself by basically saying make sure you relax on spring break, but also make sure you get this project done that accounts for a large portion of your grade. After she said that, all I could think was, "sure, this project is do-able over spring break, but the fact that almost every one of my classes has homework over spring break, so there's no time for relaxation."
One professor says, “just read this novel while relaxing on the beach” and another says “write this paper over spring break because it's due Monday morning when you get back” and then, of course, there is the midterm the day back from break, as well, so I need to study for that.
So, no, professor, I do not have time to relax over spring break because not only do I have your project to do, I have a paper to write, a book to read, and an exam I should’ve started studying for a week ago.
I’m curious about how many other students are also frustrated by this and feeling resentful towards professors for these outrageous spring break workloads. Did these professors not experience this? Did they just manage their time better than me? Or do they find it humorous to assign me all this work since their college spring breaks were ruined by their college professors centuries ago, too?
There needs to be an understanding that it professors allowed my spring break to actually be a break, I would come back to school the following week as a much better student than I will be after a very stressful spring break.
