Throughout college many students struggle with obstacles, due to these obstacles college students endure a lot of pressure. When people encounter pressure it has a tendency to affect their self-improvement. There are many forms of pressure, for example, self pressure, peer pressure, and pressure from one 's elders. According to Roth, pressure can be defined as something to do with morals. Morals then can be defined as, “deciding for yourself if you are going to violate any boundaries. If doing requires trespassing, then perhaps it is time to change your intention from doing to not doing” (Roth 107). In order for a student to improve one’s self, they must learn to decipher and learn to refrain from these types of pressure.
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"Peer pressure was defined explicitly as when people of your own age encourage you to do something or to keep from doing something else, no matter if you personally want to or not "(Brown, Clasen, & Eicher, 1986). Students are in college so that they can better themselves and achieve their goals. Peer pressure becomes present when it comes to partying, hanging out, going to events, and pressuring people into doing things that they don 't want to do. This also shows how pressure has to do with morals. It is up to one 's morals when making a decision. If it was not for morals holding people back when making a decision, people would end up getting themselves in to a sticky situation. For example, when a student decides to go to a party instead of doing their homework and going to class they are affecting themselves. They are putting themselves in the spot to decline and fail instead of improving. In order to self-improve, students need to not fall into peer pressure, need to stick to their morals and know that it is okay to say
Self pressure is practically human nature. Everyone wants to …show more content…
"Peer pressure was defined explicitly as when people of your own age encourage you to do something or to keep from doing something else, no matter if you personally want to or not "(Brown, Clasen, & Eicher, 1986). Students are in college so that they can better themselves and achieve their goals. Peer pressure becomes present when it comes to partying, hanging out, going to events, and pressuring people into doing things that they don 't want to do. This also shows how pressure has to do with morals. It is up to one 's morals when making a decision. If it was not for morals holding people back when making a decision, people would end up getting themselves in to a sticky situation. For example, when a student decides to go to a party instead of doing their homework and going to class they are affecting themselves. They are putting themselves in the spot to decline and fail instead of improving. In order to self-improve, students need to not fall into peer pressure, need to stick to their morals and know that it is okay to say