Zinssers College Pressures
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"College Pressures" by William Zinsser identifies four major pressures affecting college students today. He states that these pressures are economic, parental, peer, and self induced. Zinsser offers evidence on how these pressures affect students, but there is an underlying issue in this essay.
Zinsser states that students need a Amap@ to follow for the course of their lives and careers. Students are focusing on the future and not taking time to enjoy their education. The students are going to school so that they can make money and not making efforts for self improvement or simply gaining knowledge and culture.
These youths have been told what to do and how to do it all of their lives and now have choices to make that they may not know how to deal with. At the young age of only 17or 18, students have had their parents make most of their important life decisions for them. In the later years of high school, most students go through a battery of aptitude tests and other exams to show then their most likely career options. These students are afraid to make these decisions by themselves so they consult parents, friends, teachers, and guidance counselors because they don=t want to make a mistake by going into a field they dislike or cannot succeed in...