You walk into class and you’re already weary. Maybe it’s because your ex is sitting next to you or because the room smells like cheese or because it is on the third floor of Ballantine. Whatever your reason, Syllabus week can be difficult to stomach. For many different reasons the anticipation that comes from attending your first class is insane. One daunting reason is the insane amount of reading that can come out of nowhere. These are the 10 reasons why required readings for class can ruin your life.

1. Reading can take hours of your day

Whether it’s for Medieval lit or Chemistry the reading is bland and has nothing to make the time pass quickly. If you’re a slow reader it can take hours to simply read a dozen pages.

2. The readings always take WAY longer than you anticipate.

50 pages? Ohhh that'll just take me about seven hours.

3. Do you really need to read when the professor is just going to go over all of what you read in class anyways?

It is such a waste of time. Taking notes on stuff you already read or hearing a 75 minute lecture over the readings is just so redundant.

4. Papercuts, man.

They’re brutal and they destroy lives.

5. Reading boring and redundant articles makes you sleepy.

Whether it is over the civil war or cancer, reading for class is just another name for snooze city.

6. Eventually the joy of highlighting turns bittersweet.

As much fun as it is to change the color of a sheet of paper to a neon yellow or pink the novelty eventually wears off. You soon realize you are reading six chapters of a textbook that you never intended to buy in the first place.

7. Annotation is a joke.

I read the material. Why do I have to write detailed notes to myself to remember everything I read and what I thought at the moment? It just seems tedious.

8. Anything more than 20 pages per class per week is sacrilegious.

I have at least three other classes. I don’t have more than a couple hours to spend per class. The more reading I do for one class means less attention for my other classes. All of which I am taking for a reason and all of which affect my GPA.

9. All the paper.

Think of the trees professor! Think of the trees!

10. Your time could be so much better spent elsewhere.

Outside, watching Netflix, hanging out with friends, exercising. Fill in the blank... you could be doing it.

So, whether the readings are for Biochemistry or Linguistics they can surely make your life a living hell if used inappropriately.