TO THE EDITOR:
I recently got into a discussion with some friends about the legality of performance enhancing drugs. In 10 years, will recreationally taking psychostimulant drugs such as Adderall be considered an academic performance enhancer? Or is it even really wrong in the first place?
We’ve all been there: Hell week. You have four papers and five exams on top of your regular course load, your job, plus three group project meetings that somebody inevitably flakes on.
Sometimes it seems impossible to do it all, and drugs like Adderall could help. But at what point does it become an unfair disadvantage to students who aren’t academically doping to succeed? And how does recreational use hurt the credibility of students that have valid prescriptions?
I didn’t write this to point fingers. Just to give everyone some food for thought as we come closer to final exams.
Kristin Lowder ’13
Global studies
Hispanic literature & cultures
