“Sure,” you might say, “but homework is homework. And trust me, you might be able to get through the year putting a minimal amount of effort into homework, but once that final comes around you better be ready to study until your brain falls out because you didn’t learn the material during the year. I can guarantee that it was assigned because your professor actually thought it was important that you learn how to do these problems (remember, more homework assigned means more work for the teaching staff to grade it too). It’s been given in order to help us better understand and apply the material we’ve been learning in class. Homework is a learning device, just like lectures or office hours.
I think we can all agree that’s not the case. Is it supposed to be a mindless repetition of problems with no purpose other than to make your life miserable? But let’s take a step back for a second and try to think about why we’re actually doing homework in the first place. This is a mindset all too common among us students: thinking that the goal of homework is to just get it done as quickly as possible so that we can turn it in and get the points. All that matters is that you finish it, right?
Your friend said it took them a couple hours, but you’re not worried. It’s already late at night and you haven’t started your homework assignment that’s due tomorrow. Today’s guest post on homework is from Robbie Fluegge, a Harvard University sophomore.
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