A college education is an important stepping stone in many students lives. What is a college education though, and how do you get one? In the article “How to Get a College Education” Jeffrey Hart, Professor at Dartmouth University, he argues his own opinion on the experience and struggle of today's students working to achieve an education after high school. He also goes on to talk about what he believes should be the goal of a further education.…
The article “The Coddling of the American Mind”, co authored by Greg Lukianoff, was broadcasted on The Atlantic in September of 2015 due to its truth behind the sensitivity of college students and how it affects their mentality. Ultimately, Lukianoff wants the reader to know that coddling the mind of a college student results in mental and social health issues as well as political and environmental issues. These problems clash to produce a chaotic stream of students unable to open their minds to the real world, as they create their own safe haven to protect themselves from what they don't want to learn. In his writing, he address the fact that the overprotectiveness of a college student's mind blinds the individual from the reality they live in, which limits them to live and develop properly as a young adult.…
Mark Edmundson, who is a professor of English at the University of Virginia and has published many books, wrote “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?” as an advice piece to students just entering college. He lets students know that it is a great accomplishment that they have made it to college, but their job is far from done. They have a lot of forces against them built in the college system that will try and keep them from getting a true education.…
Edmundson wrote that college students these days come to their classes with a consumer view to the classes due to what they see in the media and explains how it has affected their emotions. He continues by writing about the changes and differences in colleges between today and back during his college days. Edmundson declares that in order to have a consumerism view, it means to discard all emotions. He has described nearly all of his students as being self-contained with minimal fire and passion. One scarce time, Edmundson witnessed two students arguing it unfortunately only turned out to be them participating in a role-playing game (325-326).…
In this essay, “College Prepares People for Life,” by Freeman Hrabowski portrays the notion that college is an absolute requirement to prepare students for “THE REAL WORLD”. Hrabowski embellishes the fact that without college, students are not going to be ready for the competitive job market and won’t be able to reach a high level of success if they don’t have the college experience. Yes Hrabowski point of view is completely understandable because in today’s society college has become such a norm and a place if you don’t go you will ostracized for, that students have no choice then to mindless focus on something that they are not passionate about. As a joiner in high school I can vouch first-hand the peer pressure from school, friends, teachers,…
A Change in Perspectives To the everyday adult, college students are easy to come off as lazy, self-indulgent, disrespectful- what anyone would say of a young adult who lives for the party and gives less than their best efforts in school. On the contrary, to the everyday college student, this narrow-minded adult would be very wrong. It is not until Rebecca Nathans works in her book My Freshman Year that we have the adult challenging the prejudiced views non-students have on these young adults.…
In Paying for the Party, Armstrong and Hamilton developed a theoretical framework, namely “college pathway,” to depict and interpret the differences of the college women’s campus experiences. Pathways are ways that constitute as instituted tracks that lead the individuals to go in certain directions. In the study, the authors use this term to describe, on the one hand, the administration relies on students to help resolve its own operational problems (gaining academic prestige (inter)nationally, responding to social expectations of upward mobility, or cuts to financial aids for school,) through the continuous distribution of resources(including energy, time and money sent to a certain advertisements of academic programs, internship opportunities,…
Menand believes that today, we are incentivized to only learn that which leads to direct success, and that college “exposes future citizens to material that enlightens and empowers them, whatever careers they end up choosing”(2). He believes that college gives students a wide breadth of information that will help them in ways beyond advancing their career. There exists one final theory that explains why college is beneficial. This theory revolves around the idea that, in our current economy, colleges exist to provide a specific skill set necessary for a select few jobs. Last, but not least, Menand discusses “Professor X”, an author and professor, who believes that students come into college not prepared or particularly engaged in learning.…
In his essay, College at Risk, Andrew Delbanco, a professor at Columbia University, insists that college “can provide the pleasurable chastisement of discovering that others see the world differently and that their experience is not replicable by, or even reconcilable with, one’s own. It is a rehearsal for deliberative democracy” (350). A college education provides students the freedom to think and structures their thoughts in ways that are critical. Also, it reveals to students the importance of how others view the world differently from their own, already formed perspective. All of which are resources necessary to becoming a better person, a better citizen of the American country and learning one’s identity.…
For this second essay, I decided to write about the Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt essay, “The coddling of the American Mind”. In their essay they argue for how, even though cognitive behavioral therapy can help with rise of mental health concerns among college students, colleges and universities too often gravitate toward promoting emotional reasoning (9-11). Therefore, I will argue for what colleges and universities should promote cognitive behavioral therapy while reducing emotional reasoning. For instance, I will explain the benefits of doing this and what might be some disadvantages in applying this therapy and as well as providing what are the obstacles in implementing it. Finally, I will support all these with supporting details from…
As Ho states, “That forces that push these college students toward investment banking are obviously multiple: the particular college environment…”(170). Through this quote Ho blames the career choices of students which leads them into unhappy situations and experiences on the culture on college campuses. The “psychological immune system” narrative triggers Ho to blame the culture on campus in order to justify the career choices made by Ivy League students. Eventually the “cooked facts” presented by Ho, encourages Ivy League students in Investment banking to have a positive view even in a negative situation. Moreover, the “cooked facts” and the pressure from society become a catalyst in achieving f the psychological narrative definition of happiness during an unhappy…
Meiland’s Audience and purpose for this article is he is looking for high school seniors and first year college students to see the difference from and transition from high school to college is a little different than middle school to high school. This makes me wonder how much the difference will be or how it could be similar. The text suits this argument because it talks it about how the college professors will teach differently than high school teachers and the subject matter will be a little different as well. Also, it is just not all facts you will learn in college they try to create a little debate in the class discussion.…
The author advises young adults to enjoy their college experience. Zinsser uses a plethora of pathos evidence mixed with a bit of logos to convince his audience. He utilizes an organizational strategy consisting of pathos followed by logos. All of these aspects combined proves to be quite effective at convincing his audience. I challenge young adults heading to college to find at least an hour each day to do something…
Who are you and what are you doing here” In life we all grow up thinking about what our future will hold. Many of us think as far as college or military. Students should really consider when making these decisions what their personal interest are, and what do they consist of, what their financial budget are and family traditions are. Many students go on to pursue the expectations of what their parents or guardian feels that they should.…
An “Unsafe” Safe Space It is no secret that we are living in a world where we have to be careful of everything we say or do. We constantly need to think whether our words and actions will be offensive to a specific culture, race, religion, or anything else. We do not want to exposed to anything that marginalizes some crucial parts of our identity and to maintain these values that are so important to us.…