【正文】 The advantages and disadvantages of college studentstaking parttime jobNowadays it has bee fashionable for college students to taking parttime job in their spare time. I think this trend has advantages and disadvantages as well.The advantages of college students taking parttime job are as follows : By taking a parttime job,college students can earn some money for their daily necessities, so they can ease their families39。 financial burden and bee economically independent. And by taking a parttime job, college students can get some working experiences and know how to use their knowledge in practical work , how to cooperate with the others and how to deal with some problems they may face. These experiences are surely helpful to their future work after graduation. However, the disadvantages of college students taking a parttime job can not be neglected. The main disadvantages are that if they spend too much time on their parttime jobs, their academic studies will be affected. They may not have enough time to digest what they have learned in class and they may not have enough time to extracurricular organized by their college after class.Since this trend has both advantages and disadvantages, college students should be careful when they decide whether they should take a parttime job or not. My suggestion is that they had better strike a balance between academic studies and a parttime job.The main difference between my college life and my middle school life If people ask me such a question what do you think is the main difference between my college life and my middle school life? My answer is always the same: the main difference is that in college I enjoy a great degree of independence.I prefer college life to middle school mainly because I39。m independent both in daily life and in my academic studies. In college I will arrange my daily life by myself and make decisions of my own will. As for academic study, I have plenty of free time after class for selfstudy and learn whatever I am interested in. To be successful in all the courses I have to learn, I even can have a workable plan of my own. While in middle school, I lived a dependent life. My daily are arranged by my parents. I even could not decide what to eat and what to wear, for my parents usually had the final say. And I was jammed with what the teachers wanted to feed me , without considering whether I really want to learn or not. By parison I should say I love the independent life in college. In college I feel I am a grownup.In short, my college life is quite different from my middle school life. In college, I am much more independent in my daily life and study. To those new ers, I would suggest that they rely on themselves and be an independent man. More pressure from academic studies does good to usThere has been a heated debate about the effect of pressure from academic studies on us students in our college. Some of my fellow students argue that it is not good for us to study under great pressure. Personally I do not agree upon this view.My argument that more pressure does good to us is based on the following two reasons. First, no pressure means no progress. With the development of our society, petition among people grows more and more fierce, college students are no exception. They must learn how to deal with future challenges foreseeable even today. Under pressure, each student has to work hard to lay a solid foundation of his or her specialities. Companies are likely to employ those who have done well in their special field of study. Therefore, in college the top ones will make great efforts to take the lead, whereas the low achievers will do their utmost to catch up. Second, no pressure means no selfdiscipline. The teachers do give assignments from time to time, yet they have not impose enough pressure on the students. As a result, quite a few of us idle away their time by playing video games, playing with Internet, or playing cards. All these do not merely happen on weekends. With more academic pressure upon the students, they will not cherish their time and have selfrestrictions with their study and even selfbehavior.In summary, I believe more pressure from academic studies does a great deal of good to us college students. If we treat pressure with a correct attitude, we will surely make more progress in our study.One way to solve the problemI