Life in the college world College seems to make life more difficult. In high school we didn’t have to focus too much academically because our hand was being held. College is all about you. Students make decisions based on their own needs. Sometimes those needs are not always our smartest moves. Responsibility‚ stress and financial troubles are one of the many issues that can make life frustrating for a college student. Responsibility should be learned at a young age. We don’t completely
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Case: West Point cheating incident 1 Description: In the summer of 1976 West Point military academy was rocked by a scandal involving a large percentage of its junior class. A number of junior classmen were found to have violated rules on a “take home” engineering exam that consisted of two parts. Part 1 of the exam was to be completed individually without assistance. Part 2 of the exam was to be completed as a group activity. Instructors upon grading the exams discovered a trend where
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In the articles “Academic Integrity and Student Plagiarism :a Question of Education‚ Not Ethics” by Susan D. Blum‚ and the article “Studies find More Students Cheating‚ With High Achievers No Exception” by Richard Perez-Pena both talk about cheating and academic dishonesty. This topic is worthy of discussion because it will teach students and professors about cheating and why it happens and how to stop cheating. Perez-Pena and Blum both have similar ideas but they also have a lot of different ideas
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destroyed the whole unity and ruined the group exercise . I realized that society is just like this‚ such that one can have outstanding knowledge but does not know how to cooperate with other than his knowledge useless. I think that is why colleges stresses on the unity as well as indivialality at same time. Respect was one of the important element in our lives. When we respect others we automatically raise our selves and earn respects as well. However respecting senor belt was easy
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average age for a first year student in college‚ and apparently the age where minors become involved around alcohol. Meanwhile‚ it has been nearly unavoidable to prevent underage students in college the consumption of alcohol. As according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism‚ about four out five college students drink
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Construction workers have blueprints that are plans to shelter thousands of unaware people. Teachers that plan to be successful during the school year plan out each concept to effectively teach their students. In order for me to be successful in life‚ I have to plan my future as a college student to a worker in whatever the career of my choosing. I want to be involved in business and computer technology industry. Throughout my life‚ my dad‚ a database administrator‚ kept me around computers all
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behavior in situations with low demand for social acceptability - focus on behavior for which there is only one logical explanation Causal Attribution of Responsibility Internal causes of behavior -the individual is responsible for the action External causes of behavior - actions are due to situations over which the individual has no control Kelly’s theory of causal attribution: Consensus - extent to which other people behave in the same manner as the person who we’re judging Consistency - extent
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Cheating in school is a mind-deteriorating problem growing at an extremely fast rate that needs our attention in order for it to be stopped once and forever. Cheating occurs mostly because of two main reasons: pressure and parental expectations. Copying in homework and during tests is two of the principle ways of cheating. The worst of cheating is that students are so used to it that happens almost on a daily basis. Another sad part of cheating is that people that cheated in school are likely to
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identity that we have created for ourselves for our real soul. And this is a big challenge on the journey of finding ourselves: not to be deceived by what seems to be our personality on the surface‚ but to dig deeper and find out who we really are. College is known as one of the best places to embark on this journey. Why is the journey known to be so risky? Besides the fact that it is easy to mistake what is on the outside for what is on the inside‚ there are deeper‚ more important‚ and therefore
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Stress Levels among College Students Rebecca Mathews Iona College Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the differing stress levels of college students while looking at their year in college and whether or not they are a member of an athletics team. This study utilized a consent form‚ a demographic form‚ a survey to determine the stress level of the participant‚ and a debriefing form for each of the participants. The results of this study showed that only the athletic status of
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