Alumnus Believes Morning Classes Are Acceptable

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Evening classes would interfere with sports and many other extracurricular activities. Plus, for students who spend their afternoons in labs, evening classes would extend what has already been a very long day.

Friday afternoon classes are an even worse idea. A weekend that begins after lunch on Friday is a sacred college tradition that must be preserved.

Eight o'clock is not early in the morning. Never has been, never will be. Five o'clock is early in the morning and is definitely an unreasonable time to schedule a class.

Wake up! After your four years at Club Midd are over, the real world begins. And the real world often begins at 8 a.m. Five days a week.

Plus, most of you only attend 12 hours of class a week. That is inconsequential when compared to a 40-hour work week. To awaken at 8 a.m. would not exactly be hardship, even if it was on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Try to understand just how easy you have it now. As I recall, sleep was a luxury in college anyway. Five hours a night was more than enough.

And finally, professors should not hesitate to fail their students if they don't show up for early lectures. Why coddle lazy students? Has the grade inflation that so afflicts our secondary schools now plowed its way through to Middlebury?


Jonathan Maziarz graduated from Middlebury College in 1993