College Pressures! Very true

As I read this essay I identified with it because everything that is expressed through it are the real hardship an actual college student goes through. I have also learned that these are only the basics there are many more which come in with every different individual. Mr. William Zinsser started his essay out in a way that makes the reader crave about what he is going to talk about next. The expected audience is actual college students, parents and basically all the people affected by this “epidemic.”I call it an epidemic because every student goes through at least one of the hardships mentioned, most go through most. After he talks about the messages he introduces the man who the messages were left for, Carlos Hortas, who is a dean at Branford College. Amazing how people get so desperate they need someone to talk to, the last comment was very impacting, “Hey Carlos, good news! I’ve got mononucleosis.” The author of this essay wishes students could be able to pay more attention to little things rather than thinking that, “every step is a grim preparation for the next step.”He talked about the pressure put upon students by their professors, by their parents, and of course the economical pressure. Unfortunately economical pressure is the one that hit students harder and if their parents are paying for it then it is parental pressure. If parents pay for school they want a say in what their son or daughter are going to study, most likely they are going ask for high titles such as doctors or architects. These are only some of the hardship students, including me, go by every day. Always hoping for everything to miraculously disappear, but it doesn’t.