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teenagefeeling · 9 months ago

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just saw this tweet posted on here with like 12k notes and it's honestly pissing me off???? bestie i was not assigned a single paper longer than 5 pages in all of high school and in college they varied a lot but i was also definitely expected to write 10 page term papers. im sorry you had really shitty teachers in high school who didn't explain this to you, but the reason they make you write so much is because you have to learn how to fully explain an idea and connect evidence to your arguments and generally just get practice structuring longer works. essay writing is a skill and you can get better (and much faster) at it with practice, which is what high school teachers are trying to introduce students to. it's about analytical thinking and learning how to draw conclusions and connections across topics, which is like, maybe the most important academic skill you could have imo. also why are you complaining about a works cited page? cite your fucking sources. it's not extra work it's literally part of the process. (without sources, you're not writing a research paper ur just writing an opinion essay. which is fine but probably not the assignment and also probably not gonna help u understand class material unless ur magically already familiar with it. in which case why are you in the class? you see how it makes no sense to complain about citing sources?)

like yes it's funny that college professors tend to be comparatively chill in demeanor from high school teachers (certainly not always tho!) but i don't think that means that college is less academically rigorous. college is by design much more challenging academically than high school is, and that does include literally just requiring more work. like this tweet is just straight up incorrect

#it feels somewhat invalidating when people make college out to be this easy thing that no one struggles with #when like. im a very good student. i graduated with the highest possible honors. and i think college was super hard #there's just so much about it that is challenging even beyond the work #but like yeah the work is hard!!! graduating college is hard!!!!!!!#there's something maybe a little classist in assuming everyone can just do it no problem? also probably a little ableism there #idk i struggled through college and i know a lot of people did #but there's like almost shame in admitting that bc if u do someone will pop up being like 'what? college was easy and so fun!'#and it's like i had no friends and no money and i wrote like 1000 words a week on top of going to class. while depressed! that shit was HARD #and im really nervous about grad school because i know that will be hard and demanding and it will take a lot of dedication and work #but i think it's worth it and i thought undergrad was worth it. for me #but like college is fucking difficult man let's stop pretending otherwise it's a) dismissive of academia and the concept of learning overall #and b) unfair to all the people who struggled and wanna be able to acknowledge that #bri babbles

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