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Spending Countless Hours

A student column on school stress, the years of college ahead, and why the hours you invest now pay off later.

By Sarah Dwaileebe, Writer May 13, 2016 School year 2015/16
Spending Countless Hours

School.

One word that gives hundreds of kids anxiety.

We spend most of our life in a classroom. The same teachers, different homework daily in each class. Same routine for getting up every morning.

Students will spend on an average 224 hours at school a week, maybe even more. We have to worry about the grades, the exams and pop quizzes.

Credit recovery is even more work on top of everything that is supposed to be done in all of the classes. It takes a long time and is a long painful process.

“I was a smart kid, but hated school.” Eminem

There is a pressure from mom and dad, or your guardians to make sure that you graduate on time, with your class, and get into a good college.

College takes years to graduate. It depends on the type of career choice that you are going for. A college certificate can take 6 months to a year.

  • Associates degree is 2 years.
  • Bachelor degree is 4 years.
  • Masters can only be earned by having a Bachelors degree, and takes four years.
  • A PhD takes twice as long as a Bachelor degree, it takes about eight and a half years to complete.

Even though we have already gone through elementary, middle/junior high, and high school means you still have a long way to go.

“We don’t stop going to school when we graduate.” Carol Burnett

You then need to find a job, buy a house, maybe get married and have children.

The only way that you can pay for everything that you wanna have in life, means that you need to have to get a good job that you most likely need to have a college degree of some sort.

Our lives aren’t just spent doing random useful things. We spend our time doing things that will catch up to you in the future, you have to put in the hours.

You can’t just never go to school and just end up with the job you want and the salary you want.

“When you invest your time, you make a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it’s to make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help someone who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.” Nick Suban

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