For instance, a student may spend up to two straight days studying for a comprehensive final in college. In this instance, students sometimes go to sleep around two or three o"clock in the morning studying for this exam, which in turn, gets them exhausted. Parental pressure can sometimes make a student's life hard when they are at the same time pressured by their peers.
Peer pressure can be used for the right and wrong reasons in today's educational system. Peer pressure in college is usually seen between students who want to out do each other in grades. For example, Zinsser says, sometimes one student thinks that the other student is studying more, so the first student stays up nights just to try to make better grades than the other student. Zinsser would see students going off to the library every night after dinner and coming back when it closes at midnight (131). Students pressure each other by doing more than the other. Students who over achieve tend to make those around them like they are not doing sufficient enough work.
Friends never seem to see the risk of the pressures they put on each other. Students seem to tense up when it comes to competing with their friends. One student wants to show that they are smarter than the other, and don't care for their own physical state. They don't seem to care whether they get any sleep, or whether they eat. Friends can sometimes end up fighting over a grade. Peer pressure can make students feel like a grade is more important than their friendship. Even though, students try to get the better part of each other out, it makes other students who don't have time to do more than the requirements, due to work, feel average. .
Work puts pressure on students economically instead of educationally. Students, who live in apartments, need to work so many hours to pay off rent. Some students have credit cards, bills, and car payments that they have to pay each month.