School is overwhelming. Homework, tests, assignments, projects. It’s never ending.

We have a lot of expectations and more now than ever, due to our technological advancements.

We have a lot of responsibilities. School, friends, family, and some of us have work.

Personally, I have a job but I only work six hours during the school week. Some kids works every day, anywhere from an hour to seven hours and I’m sure there are kids who work more than that.

I understand that kids want money or that some may have to support themselves but managing school and work is hard. I barely work during the school week and I tend to get stressed out or bombarded, I can’t imagine how the kids who work more than me or even full time feel.

Most of us go to work right after school and don’t get off until eight or nine and then we are expected to go home and complete the endless hours of homework we have.

Not to mention, we are expected to manage our sleeping schedules, eat healthy and have a perfect GPA.

I know it’s high school and we are supposed to slowly transition ourselves into adults, which is scary, but the amount of stress most of us are under is unbearable.

Most adults don’t care or think we are overreacting but we have a lot expected of us. I wish we got more credit for it.

Nowadays the world revolves around technology, which makes things even more difficult.

We learn off of technology, socialize on technology and use it to navigate. We rely on it to wake us up in the morning and to help us fall asleep with it at night.

Most teenagers are glued to their phones, but that’s how our generation is. If we don’t have it, we don’t know what is going on in the world around us with our friends and acquaintances.

I really cannot stand when an adult pulls the whole “back in my day” lecture. This is 2014, not 1987.

Things evolve and technology just so happens to be the newest greatest thing.

I don’t think students be given such high expectations. We are still trying to figure out who we are, who we want to be, what we want to do with our lives. I don’t feel like we should be so stressed out from school.

We should have the independence to work for ourselves and gain experience for when we have to become adults in just a few short years, some of us only are months away.