College causes our youth to have many social restrictions. I personally think that we are young and should enjoy it while we can, but homework prevents us from getting the most out of our time at home. Instead of going out, some weekends are spent at home, working on some pointless report. Because we are too worried about our grade point average dropping. Some students even freak out if they get a GPA below 4.0.
Fear is the ruler of our minds when it comes to schoolwork.
We are fearful that we will get a bad grade on a term paper, we won't make it into a top college, our parents will be disappointed in us, and we will end up homeless on the streets of San Fransisco. Okay, maybe that's extreme, but it could happen. The new requirements for freshman toughen an already difficult workload. It is now mandatory for high schoolers to have 240 credits to graduate, instead of the 225 credits of previous years. We have all these limitations on our life outside of school, since we are constantly working.