| It seems that education is the unknown factor to | | | | And schedules become full when the time comes for |
| evolution. Unknowingly, we go through the rigors of | | | | researches and exams. Sleep becomes a problem |
| daily living not minding the fact that we have to go | | | | when a student has to do his paperwork way past |
| to school and get a degree. It just seems to be | | | | his sleeping time. And the following morning, he gulps |
| there and we never question why everyone in this | | | | down his cup of coffee as a routine that mom would |
| world has to go to school. It looks like that the | | | | surely disapprove of. |
| totality of man's existence wouldn't be complete | | | | These are facts about college life and that's only the |
| without having an education. That's a universal fact | | | | beginning of the stress that a college student will |
| of life and we cannot change it. But the deciding | | | | experience. A college student survey reveals that |
| question is, is college a reality by Itself? | | | | most students are so stressed out that they could |
| When someone goes to college, he enters a | | | | not even find time to have breakfast on school days. |
| different world. It's like his folks are sending him to a | | | | This survey also discovers that students living away |
| testing laboratory where he is going to test all he has | | | | from home have learned to hang out at night with |
| learned from infancy until the first moment he faces | | | | peers to manage their homesickness which always |
| the gates of the university. Basically, it's not all about | | | | busy-making-a-living parents would not understand. |
| the academe. There's the balancing act to master | | | | Students who have to work part time for their |
| one's emotional, social, physical, and even spiritual | | | | day-to-day needs are another story. The work adds |
| being. Relating with other students may be fun or it | | | | physical stress to what they already get from |
| can be hurting. Being in the college world with other | | | | worrying about academic deadlines. Count in the |
| students tests one's beliefs in freedom, equality, and | | | | professors who equate education with man's war |
| the "no man is an island" lesson. Then, there are the | | | | against life! A college student survey also finds that |
| nights out with no parents around to tell them when | | | | students feel they are in a Spartan camp because |
| enough is enough. This can lead to another realm of | | | | their professors are so strict and demanding. |
| social activities like smoking, drinking, and even drugs! | | | | |