hardships. First-year students at university face a lot of challenges. These challenges can be divided into groups of which three are making adjustments‚ security and being lost. First-year students have to make a lot of adjustments. Students face difficulty in adjusting to a completely new lifestyle. University life is totally different from living at home and going to high school. For example‚ many students are living alone and adjusting to being alone is difficult. Furthermore‚ students get a lot of freedom
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Why Students Drop Out of College In the evolving social climate of today’s society‚ the importance of higher education is being stressed more than ever. It is becoming increasingly rare to procure a well-paying occupation without first obtaining a college degree. However‚ college administrators estimate that almost a third of all college students drop out of school sometime during their freshmen year. There are a variety of factors that influence a student’s likelihood to drop out of college‚ including
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Facebook to college student’s life We are living in the decade that technology has a superpower. Technology can do magic and bring everything to us just in the twinkling of eyes. Microsoft made computers easier to use‚ Google helps us to search out information‚ Youtube makes us entertained... However‚ the Web’s social network sites are predominant. Most of college students are connected by one of popular online social network sites – Facebook. Facebook is one of ways which gives ability to students to maintain
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Community College Students In our society‚ various factors can attribute to the cause of stress which can affect or destabilize the functioning of an individual. However‚ many from various sects of life go through stress once‚ twice or more in their lifetime. Colleges provide for new students the idea of unlimited freedom which inspires the student and make such individuals zealous and very motivated‚ but little is said about the demand and responsibility that is expected from the student. Herein
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Case 1: Keep a healthy perspective When Alex Vanier‚ a logistics officer with the Canadian Army‚ returned from a tour of duty in Kandahar‚ he was assigned to work for Major Newton*‚ a maintenance officer in Petawawa‚ an hour and a half northwest of Ottawa. Alex found the major to be standoffish and quick to criticize. Even worse‚ the major often unloaded work on Alex. "He gave me things that were his to do and were inappropriate for me to handle‚" he says. The major didn’t mentor the people below
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harassment‚ and suicide. Cyber-bullies can use technology to harass a person. One way they can do this is by sending a cell phone text message. In the year 2010‚ the Cyber-Bullying Research Center conducted a survey sampling the opinion of random students from the largest school district in the U.S. that showed 13.5 percent of teenagers have sent a text message to make fun of a person (Patchin). A second way is that a cyber-bully can gain access of your information and post private pictures online
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College students are diverse in nearly every way. Students from every country of the world seek higher education. Of all the differences between college students around the world‚ they share one imperative similarity. Change is common to all students who are beginning a new path into education. This change results in many students developing a high level of stress for a variety of reasons. Stress is often the catalyst for developing mental illnesses a person is genetically predisposed to. “Up to
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Should a Student Take Notes During College? When students reach college-level academics‚ note taking becomes a major role in the effective learning of college students. Studies have shown that effective note taking results in higher academic grades. There are a high number of students in colleges today that are receiving poor grades due to failing tests or quizzes over material that was taught to them but not remembered. The vast majority of these students have poor note taking skills. There
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Jeremy Johnson McMullen Thesis 10/17/13 NCAA vs. Student Athletes: A change to come Here we go again; a stand-out high school athletic star has a choice that will determine the rest of his life. This is what happened to Koby Clemens son of baseball star pitcher Roger Clemens. He intended to play baseball on full scholarship at the University of Texas a NCAA college baseball power house. After graduating high school he was drafted into the MLB‚ an eighth round pick by the team his
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Why Students Drop Out of College Diann Fisher Each fall a new crop of first year college students‚ wavering between high hopes for the future and intense anxiety about their new status‚ scan college maps searching for their classrooms. They have been told repeatedly that college is the key to a well-paying job‚ and they certainly don’t want to support themselves by flipping hamburgers or working at some other dead-end job. So‚ notebooks at the ready‚ they await what college has in store. Unfortunately
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