I was one of those kids who was smart, but thought college just was not for me. I kept my grades high, but thought college was not for me. ... Chills ran up my body as we were introduced as the smartest students on campus. ... Prosser, the AP coordinator, saying, "AP classes are challenging and sometimes tend to be harder than students think.... Going from having no interest in college to transforming myself as a student is the quality that makes me who I am. ...

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College Students and Unprotected Sex We do not realize how uneducated today's college students really are. A person would automatically think that students attending college are smart enough to know the risks of having unprotected sex, and take caution in their sexual activities. ... The number of college students having unprotected sex is off the charts. ... The sad part is that one in five of these students knew someone who had contracted an STD while in college. ... More than half of college students have not received the hepatitis B vaccine. ...

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In the past, college students were interested in educating themselves and becoming a better person. ... A great number of college students change their majors, especially during the first two years of college. ... If after three semesters in college, a student decides he wants to change his major, and he's only been taking classes for his major, he has just wasted a year and a half. Or if the student decides it's not worth the trouble and finishes college with a degree in the undesired field, he will spend the rest of his life in a job he hates. ... Colleg...

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In Avondale College or in any university, engaging with academic culture will benefit students and help them to improve their grades and aim for a successful career. ... This can increase their readiness for college and help them to succeed in their studies. ... As students become accustomed to the university/college life, they are learning what it means to be an academic. ... With the knowledge they already have, they will tend to build on it as they gradually learn new things in college/university. ... As a higher education student at Avondale College, I have come to learn more about academi...

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There should be a creative writing course implemented as a required subject to be accepted into college. ... If at all possible, every college preparatory student would be required to take a creative writing class. Thus, in college, they would have a viewpoint on all their specific tastes, especially in literature. Supposedly, the majority of college bound students are too closed-minded. ... The answer is simple, we should make it required that they learn the skills that are required by college professors, before they even step foot as a student in their classrooms. ...

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The authors' next point is that universities should, "engage all students." I agree that all students should be engaged, a point that needs emphasizing. So many people in universities believe that when you're in college, the professors don't care about how the students are doing, they are just there to teach. ... Hacker and Dreifus go to say that colleges should, "make students use their minds.... As for sabbaticals, I have never heard of someone taking a sabbatical, but I imagine anyone would need a break if they spent all day putting up college students. ...

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"While you are a student, start scoping out the men you might consider marrying.... She says that college years are the best because the men are sophisticated and smart. ... College students, men and women, aren't in college thinking about settling down. ... Spring Break for college students has gotten so crazy that a movie was actually made about what college students do over spring break. College is a time for you to find out who you are and get an education. ...

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In college, many young adults move from their home to a new environment. College provides a higher education that leads to a bachelor's degree at the first level. Students are assigned a room and asked to select a roommate, who at most times is a complete stranger. ... In order to deal with a situation both students must respect the other and be honest in their interactions. ... Understanding the things that compose a comfortable environment will help you cope with your life as a young adult attending a college. ...

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*Freire suggests in The Banking Concept of Education that the teacher-student relationship nowadays, inside or outside the school, appears to be more like a narration practice, which means the teacher only focuses on how many given facts the students can memorize. ... Not until my first college history class had I known that history itself could be so "alive." ... During the discussions, the teacher and the students thoroughly practiced the so-called "reversible learning" - learning from one another, which harmonized the contradicting ideas among the teacher and the students. ... Therefore as ...

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Wallace also states American students need to be taught how to think, and that they can't just learn it by themselves. For me, I feel likes it's kind of foolish to presume that students starting out in college don't know how to think for themselves or to make goals for themselves. I think that most students know how to think for themselves, it shouldn't have to be taught; it's kind of ridiculous. ... Also, I do agree that college students enter college not thinking about what they are going to do after college. Entering college students are sometimes clueless about wha...

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I was now in college. ... Enrolling in college was a big step for me. ... However, I did not go back to college for anyone but myself. ... Looking at my new student ID card and my new class schedule helped me gain some much needed confidence. ... After all, I was in college. ...

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The essence of the Male High School Mission Statement is a testimony that each person should strive to reach whether they're a student at Male or not. ... The structured environment I have learned to live in over the past four years has given me a tremendous advantage in my preparation for college. I have looked heavily into the work required in a typical college, and the critical thinking skills, problem-solving practice, and communication expertise have set me on the right path for continued success in the college arena. By applying these tenets of the mission statement to all facet of...

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And that is a scary feeling not knowing if you will be able to fit in with the other students around you. ... I have been told all through highschool that college professors are totally differently from teachers in highschool. ... I am used to a teacher who takes the time and explain things until we have a good understanding of it and helps the students out when necessary. ... I graduated 13th out of 150 students and my grade point average was 3.6. ... And with this thought, I feel I will have a very fun and interesting experience for my first year in college....

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And that is a scary feeling not knowing if you will be able to fit in with the other students around you. ... I have been told all through highschool that college professors are totally differently from teachers in highschool. ... I am used to a teacher who takes the time and explain things until we have a good understanding of it and helps the students out when necessary. ... I graduated 13th out of 150 students and my grade point average was 3.6. ... And with this thought, I feel I will have a very fun and interesting experience for my first year in college....

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Freshmen Blues Freshman blues affects many college students making them feel lonely, anxious, and depressed. They become anxious because it will be their first year in college. As their first year in college, they will become exposed to so many new things both negative and positive. ... Freshmen become anxious, because unlike high school, scheduling is different in college. ... Depression can occur when they realize that college isn't what they thought it would be. ...

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The "Allegory of the Cave" Socrates sums up his ideas and puts it into a conversational from between him and his student Glucan. ... When I was a High School student my brother told me be prepared for college because college is not easy like High School and I would instantly reply to him that, High school is not easy you have to work hard to get good grades. In that time I could not see the college from his point of view because I had never been to college and I thought High school was the hardest. Then, I realized that he was right and college life is more challenging than the high ...

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All teachers encounter a variety of students. ... They were studied to determine their effectiveness with students, mainly students with disabilities. ... To become a good teacher, besides getting good grades in your college courses, I think it is very important to also work on being facilitators or coaches. ... That doesn't help the students learn. ... Through the Internet, American students can communicate with students in other countries and vice versa. ...

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Since the student is seeking knowledge that is not relevant to their courses. ... I had college professors in the past that just read off a PowerPoint, which was not stimulating to me and I found myself bored. ... Problem-posing education can build a rapport between teachers and students. I think students would feel more comfortable with teacher and be able to ask questions when needed. ... It comes down to the teaching style of the teacher and knowledge comprehension of the students. ...

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Imagine you are an incoming college student with a full load of classes and that, at the beginning of the semester, you are assigned to do a book analysis that is due at the end of the semester. ... Instead, the student will overestimate the time available to do the analysis and, once again, be rushed in completing the assignment before its deadline. In a study on the planning fallacy, researchers asked university students in an honors thesis course to give an approximation as to when they would complete their thesis. Students gave their most realistic estimate, for their best and worst case ...

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Despite the fact that learning in a collectivist culture helps students to become capable and strong human-beings, the human experience is not only about learning how to earn a living but it is about learning how to be live an informed and involved citizen, how to communicate effectively, how to understand other cultures and people, and how to think and reflect from the experience itself. The writer effectively uses tone as a rhetorical strategy (ethos) to emphasize the fundamental political conflict that exist in America to educate every students that the way we measure integrity will determ...

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As a college student, going to events like these seem really boring and time-consuming. ... Right now as a college student, I'm always hungry, always training or at practice, always doing homework, always stressing out, and always out of money. ...

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Presenting this learning topic can be beneficial for all students. ... Creative teaching will allow for students to rise classroom motivation and student engagement. ... They can gain entry into the colleges of their dreams, follow their true passion and step foot into the real world. ... Majority of students tend to slack off in these extra classes or electives. ... Most students view this class as an extended free period. ...

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Percy states, that the student should know that he has a responsibility of understanding the specimen, i.e. the dogfish, by rescuing it from its educational package. ... For there is nothing the educator can do to provide for this need of the student. Every thing the educator does only succeeds in becoming for the student, part of the educational package." But Percy clarifies instantly saying that the educator can be, not an entrepreneur of creating the package, but a helper of the student in becoming a sovereign individual, not a consumer of experience. Virginia Woolf draws on the same asp...

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In the year 2014 people who have had a complete college education made 98% more money an hour on average in the United States (New York Times). ... Others feel that it should be more of an open relationship, where the students can comfortably learn from the teacher while the teachers can also learn from the students. The ideal teacher-student relationship should be a two sided one. ... From Miller's perspective, it is more beneficial to a student when he or she is able to comment on a subject and learn through discussion, in a way that will help students better understand information in t...

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Students are not taught much about the beliefs of other faiths besides that of the faith of the student's school. ... This would make every student smarter. ... Nussbaum states that colleges and universities need to broaden their curriculum, but do so according to the needs of the citizens of today (117). ... She repeatedly mentions that schools need to begin to teach students about non-Western civilizations. ...

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