Cerritos College wouldn’t allow construction to take place inside of a busy classroom, so the fact that constant hammering and loud bulldozers are at full force during busy hours within feet of the learning environment is making it hard for students to achieve in their studies.

As if it wasn’t already difficult enough for students to focus in class, the current construction taking place at the site of the new Liberal Arts Building is bringing unwanted sounds and distractions into classrooms.

These cases are prevalent in the Science building classrooms located closest to the site of the now destroyed Business Building, where the doors to the classrooms are directly across from the construction boundary.

Forget about being distracted by your cellphone or a friend sitting right next to you.

It is almost impossible to even read through a whole text without being sidetracked by a large bang of metal or buzz from a passing bulldozer yards away.

Despite the possibility that the obnoxious sounds could come in handy for students needing an extra alarm to wake themselves up once inside the lecture hall, the strain on the throat of a professor having to compete with a hoard of construction workers outside seems unnecessary.

It is completely ridiculous that there is no effort being made to move classrooms to a farther location from this mass of noise, if at all possible.

If not, the campus could also make certain that construction only occurs at times of the day where there are less students within classrooms, or even during the night.

A majority of students find it difficult to sit through lecture in the first place, and in some cases unwanted noise from the outside could pile on stress and discomfort in an already uncomfortable setting.

Imagine taking a two hour exam with crunching and cracking of metal happening constantly from 20 steps away.

All of the formulas and definitions you crammed into your mind for a week, or more realistically the night before, pop out of your mind each time the hammer meets the nail.

Within 15 minutes you’ve gone from filling out what Carbon’s atomic number is to thinking about how long until the man in the orange vest outside will put down the drill.

The construction zone outside is creating a harder for students to concentrate and learn inside the classroom setting.

Steps need to be taken to make sure the building process toward a bigger and better future in the look of Cerritos’ campus isn’t a backwards step in the growth and development of smarter and more focused students.