In Zinsser’s essay on College Pressures, he analyzes the general feelings that college kids have when they first come to college and expect to know exactly what they’re going to be doing for the rest of their lives. He criticizes these beliefs and gives many reasons for his criticism and then begins to intertwine the “college pressures” and how they relate to everyone’s lives. Zinsser tells of how college students get so stressed out with work that they don’t truly get to enjoy the college experience, which only comes once in a lifetime. In this particular essay Zinsser uses a couple of students from Yale University and goes into explaining how that there are pressures already laid on them before they even begin class, such as the outrageous amounts of money that the parents of the student are pa
ying for them to go to school. Naturally the student feels an obligation to make lots of money to pay back the twenty thousand dollars in loans that they need to receive an education, so the student is already in debt before he/she is even out in the work force. The same type of rule then applies for what major the student is going to pick, because they are going to need to make lots of money to satisfy their parents and the voice in the back of their head that tells them that money is a top priority in society.
Every college student should read Zinsser’s essay because it shows every side of the collegiate spectrum and really relates to the feelings of many. It also opens up the mind and allows the reader to look at the current situation they are in as a student. In the words of Carlos Hortas, “Colle
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