attending class and completing assignments and having time to study. As previously stated, there is only so much time in a day, and not everything can be accomplished, so some area must suffer. There lies a choice, whether to work for money to pay for living expenses, or to go to every class and complete all classwork. Society firmly pushes for students to focus primarily on their studies, but in today’ s world, that isn’ t always reasonable. If the student chooses to work, it’ s like they’ re wasting money on their classes by not putting in full effort, but if they go to class and put all their effort into class, some students are not able to get by monetarily. This decision overall would cause anyone sadness, and neither scenario is beneficial. This is a widespread, well understood cause of sadness for college individuals, and this brings them together in a way, because they all understand the struggle of being a student without a lot of money, which brings them closer together. Though sadness is commonly seen as undesirable, and in these instances, it generally is, sadness still has the power to bring individuals together in a way that no other emotion can. A sense of unity comes from the pain, which makes it easier to deal with, if only slightly.
Another common emotion felt on college campuses is anger. This anger can be directed at oneself, a professor, a roommate, or just at college in general. Society tells students they can be independent and pick their own classes, and should be happy about it, because they can take classes that are interesting and at the times that they would like to. This isn’ t always the case, though. With all the major requirements, and requirements to graduate in general, there are many classes that students must take that they simply despise. In addition, classes aren’ t always at convenient times, so instead of the 11 AM class the student was trying to schedule for, there ends up being only one section available at 8 AM. These scheduling situations create anger directed at oneself, for picking a major with no good class time, and the university for not having a better selection of classes and for having so many rules to graduate. Roommates and dorms are another common anger inducing part of college, especially if the roommates don’ t get along very well. There’ s arguments over buying food and toiletries, borrowing each other’ s things without ask-
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