I recently just got not only one, but two, jobs. I'm also a part of learning community with many commitments, I'm on academic probation so I have no choice but to focus on my studies, I'm trying to figure out my gap year for next year, and I have a social life with friends who wonder why I haven't seen them in two weeks. Thats a lot going on. And although I believe I can effectively handle all this work, it's gotten me thinking about how education and student's lives outside the classroom affect each other and how institutions can work with students to better organize their busy schedules. I've noticed that a lot of my teachers in high school and college, don't seem to take student's outside lives into account much. Even if a teacher/professor acknowledges the fact that I have a job and other things going on, they continue to overload on busy work. I'm not saying that educators shouldn't give their students work to do outside the classroom, but if a student hands in homework a day late why do they get upset? Or tell me that the work I did doesn't count because it's late? I did the work...I put in the effort...it just took me a little longer. I have four classes of homework, two jobs, a social life I enjoy, community service, learning community work, and I'm a young person who is still trying to figure out who I am. I wish more of my professors would be more understanding about all that their students actually have going on in their lives. It's not easy being young these days.
This is definitely an idea I would like to incorporate into my EIP.
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