After looking down at your schedule and seeing that a test is assigned a day or two after break, do you ever look up from that schedule wondering how your teachers sleep at night? This article is here to answer that question for you. How do teachers assign a due date to things, such as tests, projects, or essays right after break without being riddled with guilt and flashbacks of similar circumstances hitting them from concurring PTSD (post traumatic studying disorder). In other words, how do teachers assign things over break with a guilt-free conscience? Teachers, if they are of the cruel and sadistic variety, will often assign tests or projects on the Tuesday you get back from break, so as to get away with their evil plan with a guilt-free conscience in the end. If a teacher assigns work due on the Tuesday or so back from break, as opposed to the Monday back, he or she can easily say “Well, you don’t have to start working/studying during the break. You still have that Monday to work/study if you want to.” Don’t fall for those last four words, though–“if you want to.” She or he is testing you right before the test, even, by adding “if you want to wait till the last minute, the very night before.” Typically, when you think of breaks, you think of virgin piña coladas on the beach and coming back refreshed with a tan, not slaving over an essay and coming back needing a break. Unfortunately, people seem to remember things with rose-colored glasses if they are in a position where it benefits them to do so. You may have seen this take place, for instance, between your parent and grandparent, perhaps, when it comes to parenting methods. Teachers, when they feel the need to finish everything on the syllabus—even though, we know even the best laid plans of mice and men go unfinished—feel pressed for time, and so they put these rose-colored glasses on, blocking how sour they felt about working during break at our age, and let the assignments fly. So, while we may wonder how someone could give work over break without the semblance of even an inkling of guilt, we all must face the cruel reality of our teachers laying out on a beach during break, guilt-free, drinking a tropical drink and wearing rose-colored glasses while they’re at it, too.
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Oxford Emory chapter.