Speech

Why colleges should keep more consistant schedules.

Purpose: Why we shouldnt have three hour long classes.
Audience: People sitting in a three hour long class at this very moment.
Speaker: A classmate, may not agree but probably wont strongtly oppose.
Time Frame: During a three hour class, have to keep it engaging and simple.
Setting: Poorly lit classroom with floppy projection screen and bad audio.


College is a place of education and a place where you are paying to be taught. Much like a business, a college should cater to its students. I feel that this is a greatly overlooked aspect of the student, institution relation.
Many things about college life are unavoidable true, akward room mates, food that you wouldn’t write home about and class times and schedules that make you want to pull your hair out. But why are we forced to keep such unconventional schedules?
I think that theres is far to little attention paid to the duration and times of classes in college. Your whole life up until college, school has a very concrete timeline. Around 8 A.M. you start school and around 3 P.M. you get out. because of this you never spend more than an hour or so in one class, you stay focused and little time during your day is wasted.
So how come there’s such a big change in college? Why are we sitting here at (*Insert Current Time*) when we should be eating dinner, which is one of many things we would all rather be doing right now? Why was I at class at 8 this morning and then from 9:30 until now I had no class, and why is it different tomorrow? Why are we paying for such inconvenience?
Not only does this make it hard to have a part or full time job because your schedule is so irradic, further draining your bank account. It also causes us to sit in class for three hours once a week, I find this appauling. Three hours is far to long to keep keep a constructive connection open between students and their proffesors. Meeting once a week is also a very long time, a period so great that information given in one class may be forgotten by the next.
Our college needs to recognize our importance to it and the importance of the quality of the education were recieving. If we are to get the most out of the large investment we are taking at such a economically unstable time we need to demand the control we deserve and be given the right to consolidate our schedules.