Each organization supports various philanthropic causes through donations and community service. Members continue to support these important endeavors well after college through participation in their alumnae…
The FIU Honors College is built upon one core tenet: urging students towards excellence. That tenet is what draws me to the Honors College. I’m a student who is deeply vested in ever pulling myself towards reaching my full potential. Consequently, I align with the Honors College’s mission to ensure that their students are evermore excellent, not just as academics, but as citizens of the world. I seek to seize the opportunities provided to me by the Honors College to secure a life of liberty: the liberty to advance my experience and sate my voracious appetite for knowledge.…
Befriending other students allows students to learn pragmatically since there is interaction between other students. Community engagement goes beyond joining a club or an organization; it is building personal relationships with professors; Lynn F. Jacobs and Jeremy S. Hymans advised that students “should plan to visit each professor at least once during the semester. The office hours can be…
Have you registered to take English 101 online for the Spring Sememster? If so, I am going to give you some advice about how to successfully pass the class. The three steps you need to know to pass English 101 are attend class, do work when asked, and always tell your teacher a day ahead if you cannot make it to class that day. The first step you need to know to pass the class successfully is attend your class. Then, if you attend class all the time it adds up as part of your grade.…
The student organizations/clubs are made for students to socialize and connect with each other as they grow. The Dubiski’s organizations/clubs have many organizations that still stay concise in its central theme. The main organizations are SkillsUSA, DECA, and BPA, which all have the theme of teaching and preparing students for the outside world. These organizations hold socials, training, and even competitions that could go worldwide. In these organizations, students get to meet people, make friends and even learn on the way which is something that all student organizations…
98.6 percent of students report that a teacher has a positive impact on them while in high school. When I was in 8th grade I was told that teachers were mean. The teachers are not mean. Teachers just do not baby students like middle school teachers do. Also another thing I was told was about freshman Friday.…
The University of Iowa and Iowa State University offer a wide variety of activities in intramurals, club sports, and organizations. Both universities allow students to be involved, whether it is with the school or fellow students. It is relatively the same acceptance rate for each school, even though the…
The term Freshman 15 is slang that is used to refer to the weight gain in students who enter colleges and universities. Studies have proven that a student is likely to gain approximately 15 pounds in weight within the first year that they join the institution. Weight gain is a problem that widely affects a significant proportion of the society owing to the diseases that may result because of unusual weight gain. Gaining weight may lead to one increasing his or her body mass index leading to one being overweight or suffering cardiac diseases. This paper is a proposal to the solutions that colleges and college students may put in place to solve the problems that result from freshman 15.…
The college campus offered me a variety of activities to collaborate with my peers. Although I lived with many students, the…
• Founders Day — understanding of and appreciation for Kappa. • Student welcome-back event or newsletter centered on scholarships. • Winter Holiday Party — interpersonal development. • Tour of a local art museum — self-discovery and interpersonal development • Graduating senior event with a local chapter — understanding of and appreciation for Kappa. • Confronting conflict and effective boardsmanship — leadership and skill building.…
Liberal arts is the college academic area where students can major in a variety of fields from natural sciences to humanities, yet the first thing that comes to mind is an English major or a music major. Why do people only think of English or music? Liberal arts is more than just English or music; it ranges from psychology, a foreign language to biology. Liberal arts education is becoming descry due to many misconceptions conveyed by the media, economy, and struggling families. Many believe that a liberal arts education is not affordable, harder to get a job, and has no advantages in the workforce; however, Sanford J. Ungar, former president of a liberal arts colleges, argues that a liberal arts education is a very important investment despite…
Like so many other educational institutions, Wellesley College’s primary goal is to provide a formal education to its students so that they are prepared to integrate into the workforce after graduation. In addition to providing a rigorous liberal arts education, Wellesley prides itself in cultivating a diverse and inclusive community which molds its students into global citizens. This community is formed through smaller communities such as student orgs and safe spaces for students of varying identities. The small-scale community within Wellesley College that we have observed and will analyze in this paper is Café Hoop. Café Hoop, better known as “The Hoop” by Wellesley students, is a student-run and student owned co-op, located in the basement…
By the second semester on campus, we have 24 members of the organization. This amount has led the group to get to know everyone in it on a personal level and to develop…
Academics and athletics already proved difficult to manage but I wanted to get more involved. With the assistance of a friend, I became an MCAS affiliate by the end of my freshmen year. I also assisted two of my mentors in organizing an event called ‘Subliminals’ with Professor Kaba Kamene as the keynote speaker. I even performed a poem during the event. My sophomore year I joined Mental Graffiti and started attending events hosted by BACC and NSBE.…
My summer is not going to be like any ordinary summers. I’m going to prepare myself for my senior year, and take FLVS courses. My goal over the summer is to complete two online courses and study the ACT. I’m also going to work my two part-time jobs to save money for college and a car. I am going to visit performing art schools in Florida and explore some online.…