STUDY: hard, stressful work in high school leads to hard, stressful work in college**

 
A recent educational study by the PUW center for research has uncovered new knowledge about the correlation between high school and college, with the information being called “ground breaking” by some major educators. Among other findings, the center for research has found a nearly direct correlation between hard work and stress in high school and hard work and stress in college.

“These findings are really helpful,” said Edina-area algebra teacher Mark Rudman, “All the time, my students are asking me why they should spend long nights doing the challenging homework assignments I give them. Now I can firmly point to this study to show them that if they don’t develop an unhealthy obsession with grades now, they’ll never get into a college where they can continue that self-destructive over-academic behavior.”

The findings looked at nearly 3,000 students and discovered that those of them who spent six hours each evening doing homework and voluntarily took four or five AP classes each year also got the benefit of spending up to seven hours on class work each day during college, while less devoted students would be lucky if their college experience gave even a little bit of overwhelming workload and stress.

“All in all, the message is loud and clear,” said researcher Samantha Jones, “High schoolers, you’d better start hitting the textbooks and developing an innate fear of even the most minor academic failure. Because if you don’t, there’s no way that you’ll be able to work yourself to death and become even more mentally unstable during your college experience.”

Jones even suggested that an overbearing work ethic could be helpful after college. “Who do you think the corporations are going to give the most stressful and hardest jobs to, some slacker who just scraped by in college and isn’t headed for an eventual mental collapse when he or she realizes that all this devotion to work doesn’t make them truly happy or fulfilled, or a straight-A student who has worked so hard in life that they’re devoid of all compassion or feeling?”

When asked whether devotion to study in high school impacted overall success in life, Jones chose not to comment.