In the early 1990s‚ one in every fifty college students used marijuana daily or nearly everyday. In 2013‚ one in every twenty college students used marijuana daily or everyday. Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug in 34 years of the survey. The daily use of marijuana is at the highest among college students. About fifty-one percent of full-time college students have used an illicit drug at some point in their lives. Thirty-nine percent of college students used one or more drugs 12 months
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College Application Essay One cold and snowy December 23‚ my dad and I left for what would be the first professional football game I had ever seen. The whistle blew‚ the crowd roared‚ and the game began. My favorite team‚ the Jacksonville Jaguars‚ were playing the Minnesota Vikings in what would quickly become a hopeless mauling. At the end of the fourth quarter‚ the score was 33-3 Jaguars‚ and the Vikings‚ who were playing a horrible game‚ had absolutely no chance of victory. I couldn’t
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Melhart-2 Research Paper 8 December 2012 College Football is Better than the NFL Many compare the National Football League (NFL) with college football but the two are not extremely similar and should never be compared. Yes‚ besides a few minor rule changes the NFL and college football are the same game; but there is much more to football then the rules. College football is better than the NFL for a wide variety of reasons. First‚ there exists more passion in college football all around the sport. Passion
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Sample College Essay #1 The sun sleeps as the desolate city streets await the morning rush hour. Driven by an inexplicable compulsion‚ I enter the building along with ten other swimmers‚ inching my way toward the cold‚ dark locker room of the Esplanada Park Pool. One by one‚ we slip into our still-damp drag suits and make a mad dash through the chill of the morning air‚ stopping only to grab pull-buoys and kickboards on our way to the pool. Nighttime temperatures in coastal California dip into the
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to play in college. Athletes dedicate their life to the sport have no time for anything else. I have trained with the most advanced volleyball clubs and volleyball specific personal training. Coming into college I would expect the same or more intensity then I was trained with‚ but I was surprised by a lot of things that were done wrong. I was one out of fifteen players on Concordia College volleyball team. My coach was Francisco Casado‚ this being his second year that Concordia College. Being new
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Alcohol is a huge problem on most college campuses. Twenty one may be the legal drinking age‚ but some how minors find a way to get a hold of alcohol. People as young as fifteen are able to get their hands on an alcoholic beverage. Alcohol is said to be the chosen drug among college students. College students have a tendency to drink more then the general population. The type of college‚ geographical location‚ the ethnic and gender makeup plays a role in the amount of drinking that occurs on campus
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about business and I think that I would grow at Boston College‚ both intellectually and personally‚ in a number of ways as I pursue my ambition of one day running a business of my own. Ever since I started working for my family’s painting company in Berkshire County‚ Massachusetts four years ago‚ my aspiration to run it myself in the future has both directed and greatly motivated my academic studies. With that said‚ when it comes to Boston College‚ I believe that the combination of that determination
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Traditionally White Institutes vs. Historically Black Institutes Oprah Winfrey‚ a very successful black woman. She attended a Historical Black College and University named Tennessee State University. She is now a television talk show host. More than half of all African-American professions are proud graduates of Historical Black Colleges and Universities. Black colleges and universities contribute to the rise of young black men and women‚ whom inspire to be future professionals‚ intellectuals‚ and
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Advertisement/endorsement deals for the athletes College Athletes feel like that they should somewhat get a portion of the money that the colleges are making off of them‚ especially if companies and shoe brands are wanting to use them as the face of their brand. A lot of the athletes come from a background where they may not have a lot of money from their families to support to support the college athlete throughout college. Some of the athletes do not even get a full scholarship and ma only get
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This article summarizes that college debt keeps increasing every year because college tuition is getting more and more expensive. They also say that each university tries to see what money they can bring in to help students pay for tuition. When students get out of college they have to pay the debt back after a six month period grace. To cut some of the costs they are trying to combine some of the colleges together so the tuition rates are not as high‚ as if they were separate universities. Now that
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