what to expect your first day at a new college. You never quite know the people you’ll meet‚ or the overall vibe of the other students. I came to National Park College as a 28 year old. Recognizing that I’d more than likely be one of the oldest students in my classes‚ I didn’t really know how or if I would relate to the younger students (mostly 18 to 22 year olds). Would there be any commonality between myself and students around a decade younger? I’d soon find out. The first day of my Composition
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When I first arrived to Richmond Early College High School‚ I anticipated an academic career characterized by hard work‚ nightly homework assignments‚ and incredible doses of stress that a middle school classroom could not synthesize. Although I actually landed my first college class in the second semester of my ninth grade year (ACA‚ which was required for all newbies and taken simultaneously by all 50 of us)‚ I found myself still shaken. I looked forwarded to the challenges of a college experience
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College has been on my mind way before I was even registered. After‚ I attended my high school graduation ceremony‚ told my teacher’s and counselors about my appreciation for them‚ and then my summer began. Most of it was preparing for the upcoming school year at Waubonsee Community College. In my first semester of college I went from feeling in control of my education to; feeling the whole world against to; understanding what college is all about and lastly to realizing I am going in the right path
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Martin Luther King Martin Luther King was the son of a pastor and grew up in a religious family during segregation times. He attended segregated public schools in Georgia and graduated from high school at the age of fifteen. He also studied at Crozer Theological Seminary‚ the same place where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class. Later on Martin Luther King pursued to become a pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Alabama. From there he became involved in a bus
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In the summer leading up to my first semester in college‚ my expectations were high. I assumed that all I had to do was study‚ attend my classes and I would breeze through the courses with ease. As I predicted‚ I began the fall semester effortlessly and my confidence was higher than before. As a student in the Honors College‚ I was presented with a mass amount of opportunities that I found it impossible to isolate myself from others which I always had a tendency to do. I began to participate in several
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does the first amendment protect on college campuses? By definition‚ a speech code is any rule or regulation that limits‚ restricts‚ or bans speech beyond the strict legal limitations upon freedom of speech or press found in the legal definitions of harassment‚ slander‚ libel‚ and fighting words (First Amendment). There is not one real speech code that all public college campuses follow. The first amendment includes freedom of speech‚ but does not limit any speech codes on college campuses
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my first year of college. After ending this first year of college I experienced a lot of things and I will remember most of them for the rest of my life. I have experienced some good things and some others that have not been that good‚ but probably that is part of college and being away from home. Obviously‚ I would like to have changed some of those‚ but some others I would not have changed. I am going to start talking about all the things I would like to have change. During this first year
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What a feeling! It’s finally here! As the plane lifted off to take me to a new destination‚ a new era in life‚ I felt myself emerging from being a boy into a young man. As mom pulled up to the college in our rented SD car‚ I took a gasp of fresh air. I saw many cars with students pulling up to the campus with curious on lookers like myself. My mom entered the long lines that moved as slow as a snail; it felt as though what usually would take an hour to do took forever. Mom and my aunt setup
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Football On November 6‚ 1869‚ Rutgers and Princeton played what was billed as the first college football game. In 1876‚ a coach named Walter Camp‚ who is considered the “Father of American Football‚” helped produce the first rules of American football. Now over 147 years later football is still a popular sport watched by millions of americans. American football is a sport played by two teams of eleven players who attempt to get a touchdown. Whoever scores a touchdown will gain six points for their
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Interpret and apply end-of-month (EOM) terms. End-of-month (EOM) terms: a discount is applied if the bill is paid within the specified days after the end of the month. An exception occurs when an invoice is dated on or after the 26th of a month. For example‚ the terms might be 2/10 EOM‚ meaning that a 2% discount is allowed if the bill is paid during the first 10 days of the month after the month in the date of the invoice. An exception to the EOM rule occurs when the invoice is dated on or after
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