My take on things

Zombies on campus!

This year the schedule for the Kovsie students took a turn for the worst in my opinion. The holidays, corresponding to those of the schools in the nation, were taken away from the students. I felt those glorious days of de-stressing ripped from my soul.

Those in authority claim that we don’t have enough time to deal with our mountains of work for our various classes and there was unconfirmed talk of Education students being responsible for signing a petition to give students more time to work.

They should have asked the entire student body their opinions about this drastic change. It took me by surprise and shock filled me as I checked it and saw that it will be reality. Now, close to exam time, the students and I are the walking dead on the UFS grounds. Without that week, yes just one week of getting back our bearings and recharging for the coming classes and exams, we have turned into zombies who use grunts as greetings and sluggishly walk to class we don’t want to be in.

The start of year energy and excitement was diminished by us not having our times off. Those students who complained about not having enough time for work could have asked for extra classes to catch up or perhaps used their weekends more wisely, either through the use of academic advice or planning out schedules in order to ‘tackle’ their work.

Along with the grunts are the complaints. They hang over campus like a fog; a toxic mist that spreads the disease of negative thoughts to other students and even their parents.

We do have a week off after Easter but it is in such a terrible place. Instead of using it to feel better about the academic year, it will be spent studying for the next round of tests and assignments that need to be done for right after our ‘break’. That doesn’t help much.

I want my normal long holidays back, ones that can be used for work and play without also having stress plaguing it constantly.