Personal Narrative: Winter Break

It’s that time of year again. Winter break is right around the corner and the one thing in the way of it are finals. Cramming begins when we have to learn an entire semester’s worth of information into our small over-stimulated brains just long enough for us to retain it for all those papers, tests, or presentations. It’s time for the stress and procrastinations to begin and a nice cold beer once you end.
College students are often getting overwhelmed by the amount of work that gets thrown at them by college professors who have high expectations for that assignment. There is a rising pressure that is put on college students here at Castleton and across the country that happens in these last three weeks of a semester. Often, there is one solution …show more content…
It's as easy as shoving it down your throat and before you know it, your work is miraculously finished. I recently interviewed Amanda Hatch, a senior here at Castleton University; I asked Amanda what her secret is to studying for her exams. Amanda usually relies on coffee to keep her going, but she says coffee just makes her jittery, whereas Adderall allows her to focus. “With Adderall, I don’t want to run around,” she says, “I just want to focus on the task that is in front of me.” After asking another Castleton senior, Talia Ziccardi, she stated that she drinks an obsessive amount of coffee just to keep focused “I’m just a furious coffee drinker, sometimes I even put rum in my coffee, but at the end of the day I’m still stressed out.” Other students believes that adderall is just an excuse and some think it’s an unfair advantage. “Adderall isn’t magic” Joshua Matthews said, a junior here at Castleton University. You just have to put your mind to it and you can achieve anything without the use of substances. After talking to a few more college students about the use of adderall and what their opinion was here is what they had to say Molly Gajewski- “I’d like to stay as calm as possible