Why I Hate Homework

If high school has taught us one thing, it is to absolutely hate homework. College has a lot of ground to make up if it truly expects us to enjoy ourselves while doing assignments. Yet I’d dare to say it’s getting there. There is one trick to know in order to help yourself along. No more choosing topics just because the teacher would like them or because you already have a lot of information about it saved from that one high school paper you did three years ago. The fact of that matter is that nobody likes to do homework, so you might as well use your own style on it. It may just be the difference between vague understanding and actual learning. Assignments are inevitable so why should we conform to what is expected? Throughout high …show more content…
The higher you get in math or science the more all the complicated equations, no matter how seemingly different, come together. It begins to become more about actually solving the problem than it does the process of how you got there. True, I may not be a science major but even I know there are still certain equations that just don’t fit with the problem you’re trying to solve. I like to think of those as simply a matter of trial and error - another common theme often looked down upon when growing up. It is a way of problem solving that could drastically improve the learning capabilities of many, no matter the field of study they choose. Speaking of …show more content…
The idea of a limited subject being presented to us in the form of a formal, often very overused theme has become what is normal. So learning to limit that subject ourselves is a nightmare. We are constantly asking ourselves: What is the most interesting topic? Is there enough information on it? Would the teacher be okay with my choice? What are we even supposed to write about? It is the last one that really shows the issue, isn’t it? Because if we don’t know what to write about, then how do we write at all?
This mindset is the number one destroyer of a good student. It is what high school has ingrained and what college is trying to fix. However, they can’t truly fix it without a little help from the students. Whether we have somehow managed to survive the Four Hell Years mentally intact or if we are simply willing and able to start fresh, it is up us to take back our learning. And to do that we must first take back our homework. It’s about time we start doing assignments on our terms. Be interesting, fun, positively ridiculous as long as you enjoy it. Heck, I wrote an essay all about WWE’s John Cena simply because he was a huge internet joke at the