By Aang
How to kill a student? Here’s a step-by-step tutorial: first things first, pile up mountains of homework and stack it until their workload is overloaded; next, torture their minds with endless quizzes to test their mental toughness; lastly, assign multiple performance tasks due the same week to leave them sleep-deprived.
When the sun rises, so do students getting ready for school; the birds chirp, giving the morning a colorful tint; the heater runs, warming water for a lukewarm bath, while the sound of sizzling sausages carries through the home, the tasty aroma filling the air.
All that just to arrive at school with a million activities on hold, like a rope on the brink of snapping; the learners are on a boat, standing on a wobbly plank, waiting to fall into the shark-infested waters.
Waiting there for fate to unfold, one realizes a student’s life is never as easy as it seems; it’s filled with different challenges to overcome every day.
The moment a student steps through the classroom doors, the reality of academic pressure resumes its grip. Clocks tick loudly against silent study halls, each second marking another deadline looming on the horizon. Desk surfaces become battlegrounds strewn with highlighted papers, half-finished essays, and empty coffee cups that document late-night cram sessions. Friends exchange weary glances in the hallways, trading solidarity for sleep, bound together by the shared fatigue of trying to meet impossible expectations. In this relentless pursuit of success, the boundary between learning and merely surviving fades, turning the educational journey into an endurance test where perseverance is the only path forward.
