Here at Avila mid-terms have quickly
approached us and are now in full swing. As many students know this is one of
the more dreaded times of the year. With all the studying and in many students
case, cramming, it becomes a very stressful week. However, some people feel
different than others about mid-terms. Some people have five of them and other
people have none. Some students embrace them and are ready to take them head on
while others completely dread them.
Mid-terms
can also be harder for people who are student-athletes as they have to go to
practice every day and participate in games as well as trying to find time to
study and do as college students want to do so drastically, sleep. I went out
to ask a few students how they felt about mid-terms and the approaches they may
take to help make mid-terms a little better.
Freshman
football player Ben Walker stated, “Mid-terms are awful, especially being a student
athlete. I try to study as much as possible in the small amount of free time I have
but it’s difficult. I’ve had to pull a couple all nighters and really show
myself some will power and studying as much as possible to get the grades I want.
I can not wait for them to be over so I can get on to fall break.”
Kim Monk,
in the picture on the right replied saying, “They stink, I don’t like them at
all. I understand why we have them and the teachers perspective in giving them
but I would definitely prefer to not take them. I think a bunch of small tests
over the material we are learning would be much more effective and better for
students over one big one. I can not wait for them to be over!”
Lastly, I
spoke to Morgan Trokey, on the right in the picture above, “I don’t have any”
Morgan said, “but I bet it would suck to have to take any. I’ve only had my
whole college career and it was awful, so I feel bad for the people that have
them.”
As you can
see mid-terms are not very popular for the students here on campus. They cause
even more stress on them than they already have and also prove to be pretty
difficult. But as they week is halfway over the students are becoming more and
more optimistic and realizing how close the week is to being over. Just a
couple more days till fall break.
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