college worries

College Worries
College students have many obstacles to overcome in order to achieve their optimal academic performance. They have worries about their career and their personal problems that affect their academic process. Also the huge worry is what I want to be, I know lots of friends who are worrying that they might change the major because it’s too hard or GPA is not high enough. College worries affect students’ academic progress. Getting along with roommate, Students fear of financial aid, and not getting good grades.
Getting along with a roommate is a huge worry for college students. My first roommate and I could not have been more different had some sort of incompatibility test matched us. To her, the floor was a substitute for a closest, studies were something to be ignored, and the only thing worth majoring in was boys, lots of them. Her music was louder; her taste in decorations was gaudy, and her interests far more rebellious than my own. I was shocked, overwhelmed. I wish I could report that we worked out a beautiful friendship but unfortunately we didn’t. Equally convinced that the other was wrong, bull about everything, we barely tolerated each other until the end of the semester when I, with a sigh of relief, moved down the hall to live with someone who didn’t challenge my values and activate my fears. With the hindsight of middle age, I now know that it was a loss for both of us. I wish we had the skills to grow with each other. In spite of the best efforts of college these days to match roommates by interests and habits, it is a better than even chance that roomies won’t be instant friends. Even if both are non- smoking, beer loving, or TV- watching, it’s amazing just how different people with the same external attributes can be. It requires tolerance, communication skills, and willingness, even an enthusiasm, to learn about another person to make these capricious roommate assignments begin to work. Even in the best of circumstance, it’s a challenge. For some students, especially those who never before have had had to share a room or negotiate when the lights would go out. It’s one of the most difficult adjustments that college life requires. Unless a person has had some practice by sharing a tent at camp, this is the first time they sustain tolerance for someone outside the family for any length of time. We will have lots of differences with roommate but in addition to the obvious disparities, there will be tons of little ways that this person will both fascinate and appall.
As preparations get underway for the school year at area colleges, some students are facing large obstacles about financial aid before they can begin their college. Some students are getting ready to go back to school in sometime, but that might not be the case for them anymore, as they say their financial aid hasn’t come through yet, even though they submitted al their paperwork before the financial aid deadline. Now they are forced to drop some classes. This process has been frustrating students. They have been waiting for so long time to get their financial aid so they can start college and pay for their classes. Even I was kind of frustrated when my financial aid got delayed because I was trying to go to college so I can go ahead and start my career. So now students get fears they might have to put their education on hold for some time until they get their financial aid. Even though if you have completed all the proper financial aid paperwork on time. Still, there are no college funds in sight. Turn out Most of students facing the same problem. College officials say there are several factors behind the delays. Some students aren’t meeting the financial aid application deadlines, and they need to get verified for it. If they get selected for verification, it’s going to take longer, that’s frustrating for students because it’s somewhat unpredictable. The verification process required by the government asks students to provide personal documentation before they get financial aid. We have to go through and process all of this to the government’s specifications otherwise we cannot award the financial aid. Lots of applications students turn in has errors, which in turn causes more delays. Sometime students have to switch campus, switch classroom, their time and schedule. Most of the students reply on financial aid.
Fear of grades that effect students. Students on average, spend time using their intelligence to figure out how to get an A without doing the real work of the course and without thinking, rather than spending the same time thinking and exploring, regardless of what grade this may bring them. It isn’t that these students are not motivated. It’s just that they are not as motivated as much to learn as they are motivated to get good grades. Once you’re grade disposed in your thinking, it is difficult to stop thinking that way. When these successes of the system arrive in college, they, of course have not changed their attitudes. They fear open ended assignments. They are impatient with discussions that are not going in any particular direction except where the interests of the discussant dictate (order), since they know that such discussions waste time that could have been better spent studying for a test. On the other hand, students who do less well in school are often rebelling against curricula they see as irrelevant to their lives. This type of student judges what goes on in school according to how well it relates to their own day to day concerns. If algebra does not seem relevant to the problems such students face, then they see little need to pay attention to it. “The school might have been able to embed algebra instruction inside a task they cared about, causing them to want to know algebra because it would help them to do something they wanted to do.” “Cleverness pays, but disagreement does not.”
In conclusion, meeting a new roommate can be stressful or exciting. While you and your roommate might not become best friend (or you might). Thinking about the cost of a graduate education can be very stressful because we all know that lots of time financial aid get delayed and we have to start our college late. Students are not doing their assignment or studying for test and that affect their grades, which lead them up to fail the classes.