sometimes all you need

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By Matthew Visser

tudents in today’s academia have become
something of lost ghosts in the education field of

what it means to be a student. This being said, has

school become more of a job for students than actual
paying jobs are for them? What I mean to say is that

academia has now become so stressful for students that
students have become lost in the world of books and
notes and keyboards and what it means to have outside
lives from school, to be an actual human being living
life has been almost forgotten.

I myself am only taking three English courses
and have realized that this semester has been one that I
could have been a little more serious with. But instead
I procrastinate on my studies and have been able to do
things, like go out for breakfast at a small little diner
down the street from my house, or go bowling, or be
able to go on walks and out for coffee with my friends.
This I want to think has made me have more fun this
semester than semesters past because I have made an
effort to have a life outside of my studies.

A life outside of studies for the students that try
very hard to be studious and professional and graduate

 

to go further with their studies from Douglas College
is something that is very hard to come by. I even want
to think that even going out for a break from the books
and out of the house and away from the computer screen
is something that all students, and even all people, this
includes teachers too, need to do to feel like free people.
Free from this constant bombardment of books and
writing and typing and hours in front of the computer
screen. This kind of freedom is something that people
need to have to awaken the brain and the heart to what
students are learning. And let’s face it, if students do not
put their hearts into their studies than they will not learn
the little important things that will make them masters at
the crafts they are spending hours and lots of money on
to achieve.

As I walk around the Coquitlam campus I am
constantly reminded of how serious school is becoming
and how much less fun it is to learn what students pay to
learn. I pay to go to post secondary and pay for classes
that I want to study and want to take an education away
with me and use in life. But I do not want to pay to have
the classes that I want to learn about becoming a prison
for me in my life.

I have a friend that I have been trying to make plans
with for three weeks now to go out for coffee but she
phoned me up and asked if we could change the date
due to her stress levels she gets from going to BCIT.
Now I do not know what school is like at BCIT, but I do
know that any post secondary institute that makes their
students so stressed out that they are not even happy
to be going to school to learn what they are passionate
about is wrong and needs to have a look at what they put
their students through.

What I am trying to say is that school is now
becoming a full time job where students study and are
at school from the moment the library opens to when it
closes. Sometimes the best thing for students is to take
a break, lean back in the chair and go outside for some
fresh air. Just spending a few minutes to a few hours
away from the books can give people a new look at what
they are studying and new blood flowing though the
brain and the heat. You will feel refreshed and ready for
that next paragraph to read or write. Just give it a try, it
will not disappoint.