Students all around the world face deadlines every day, every week, and every month. It can be as small as homework deadlines or as big as college applications.
These deadlines start as soon as first grade for sure because they give you homework, although it may be easy, it’s still a deadline you have to meet. Those homework deadlines increase in severity and the amount of effort you have to put in all the way until you graduate from college.
As you get into high school, deadlines become more frequent and harder to manage. You have eight classes, most of which assign homework that you have to have finished by a certain date. Those assignments consist of everyday assignment check-ins to essays that you have a month to write.
Teachers from first to eighth grade, to high school, to college, will tell you the importance of meeting deadlines and the consequences of not turning in assignments by the correct deadlines. Those conversations increase students’ stress.
As a student, stress due to deadlines is a major thing I know I have faced, but also that other students have faced too. You feel obligated to get it done on time because of all the consequences you will have, but in reality, it is not the most important thing. You go to school all day and are expected to go home, do the same things you did at school at home for one to two hours every night, and then do it all again tomorrow.
