Summer: a time of rest and relaxation for students everywhere. It’s meant to be a break from the rigors of academics and allow students to decompress and relieve some stress. However, some smart (or terribly stupid, depending on how you look at it) students decide to give their summers up to extra classes, more textbooks and unbearable homework.
While there are many pros to doing this, like getting more credits in a shorter period of time, being able to take harder classes at easier schools, or saving a little bit of money, there are certainly cons as well.
1. Summer doesn't actually exist.
That nice, three-month-long break everyone so desperately craved as spring semester came to an end? Yeah, you don’t get that. You still have to go to class, do homework, and be “responsible.”
2. At least part of your day is given to what you wanted to escape: school.
Whether you’ve chosen a three hour long 8 a.m. or a four-hour-long night class, a large portion of your day is taken up by school. Why oh why do we force ourselves into this?!
3. Chances are you're always exhausted.
Like I mentioned before, class time is extended and you are now forced to spend a significant amount of time in one class. All the while, you’re likely trying to keep up a normal summer schedule as well. You have very little time to rest and it definitely takes its toll.
4. Homework is no longer just a thing of the past and future: it's here and now.
You thought you had escaped homework and didn’t have to worry about it again until fall. You were wrong. Summer classes typically cram a week’s worth of material into just one or two classes, meaning that your homework load? It’s a monster.
5. You can't always sport that "100 percent care-free summer attitude."
Well, you can...but chances are it won't go well. Class at 8 a.m.? So much for staying out every night until the sun comes up. Night classes? You can forget Sonic runs for dinner and any and all cookouts that are bound to happen. Is there a bright side to any of this? Probably not.
But even after all of the negatives, we still continue to put ourselves through this…so obviously there’s something good coming from it, right?
