Honey, an Education student, shares how she deals with the pressures of college life.One Thursday morning, our classmates were very busy planning for a coming variety show competition for English class, a preparation which would serve as our final exam.
On that same day, our Developmental Reading professor entered the classroom and announced that our project was to come up with a mini book which had to be submitted the following Monday. The news terrified us and threw us all into confusion. We no longer knew which of these two requirements we had to prioritize.
Later on, our Field Study professor instructed us to work on our individual portfolios, that is, a compilation of what we had observed in a high school in Davao, checked and signed by our cooperating teacher. This was an additional burden for us since that school was far from our university.
The problem worsened when practices for our variety show began. The majority of my classmates were so passive and uncooperative that this led to the group’s disintegration. At that moment, I was quite upset, and my heart full of anger and hatred. At home, my sister scolded me for not helping out with the household chores. With all these pressures building up inside me, it was easy to get into an argument with her.