What Are The Four College Pressures By William Zinsser

At any level in a student’s education, there are a plethora of sources of stress and pressure which affect the student’s everyday life. From a large homework load, to not fitting in with the right crowd, students face a lot, which their parents may not be cognisant of. College students are new to the adult world and are pushed right in with little time to think through what they want to spend the rest of their life doing. For this reason, college students face much more pressure than most other learners. William Zinsser discusses four college pressures in his essay “College Pressures,” which was published in 1979 in Blair and Ketchum’s Country Journal. These pressures include: economic pressure, self-induced pressure, parental pressure, and

Just about everyone is expected to have a college education prior to entering the workplace, and the price of college is steadily increasing. As such, many students face economic pressure through college loans and scholarships, and sustaining themselves throughout their college career. Zinsser describes this quite clearly when he says: “ Exhorted at commencement to go forth into the world, he is already behind as he goes forth.” (3) Zinsser’s point being that by graduation, students are already burdened by their student loans. Since students are just learning about budgeting their money and knowing what to prioritize, economic pressure is often viewed as a bad thing. However, economic pressure can be a driving force to some college students; without it their grades and overall success could

Some students realize how important their education is because of how much it costs, and others because of how difficult the classes are. Whatever the reason, college students push themselves towards their goal of graduation through self-induced pressure. Some students are pushing themselves to the point where they are quickly becoming overly burdened by their school work and extracurriculars. It is at the point where, as Zinsser states: “the young are growing up old” (2). For other students however, the influence of self-induced pressure is just what they need. College students that have little motivation to go to class or participate in school activities need something to push them. self-induced pressure is exactly what these students need to influence them in the proper