The biggest challenge facing potential college students is the means of how they will be able to afford to go. In this day and age most people have to work a minimum of 40 hours per week just to survive. This often doesn't leave room to fund children, or even the parents, to have a college education without taking out significant loans for college. The average college tuition has increased by almost 200% in the last 20 years, outpacing the average household income significantly. If college tuition rates were lowered, there would be a great increase in the number of high school graduates who would be able to afford and attend colleges.…
The next essay I found to assist in evidential analysis was Validation Experiences and Persistence among Community College Students by Elisabeth A. Barnett. Barnett this research contributes to the understanding of college student departure decisions as they help determine factors related to persistence. Only 34% of all college students graduate with a degree from a two or four-year college. Only 3 out of 10 students who start at community colleges full-time graduate with an associate degree in three years(CE6). Her sample represented a student demographic and included ages from seventeen to seventy-one, with an average age of twenty-five.…
Most movies portray high school students as one dimensional. They include peppy cheerleaders and dumb jocks whose lives seem perfect. Nerds eat by the dumpsters and get picked on by the school's bully. Although sometimes these characters exist, everyone has some unique quality that few others know about. Throughout my life, I’ve had to deal with multiple obstacles such as raising my little sister as my own, deciding which high school to attend, and learning how to adjust to my dual enrollment course.…
One of the main reason incoming freshmen and young adults are caught in the college misconceptions is due the media, especially movies. When I was younger, I used to believe everything the media taught, anything I watched in a movie was a reality. As I grew older, I began to understand that movies are not reality. Movies are portrayed to entertain viewers and without guidance brainwash young minds. This is the case with college misconceptions found in movies and ads.…
When a student chooses to start there college career at a community college it is for many of reason. Either for financial benefits, guaranteed transfers too many Universities, or to gain experience before actually entering a University. During that time a student will go through certain challenges that will not affect and impact them. To elaborate more students who are from out-of-state, struggle with not only financial problems, but also diversity and difficulties of finding a job. Also students who come from a working class, and family members who have already obtain a college degree and, the struggles of coming from a different ethnicity having to deal with stereotypes.…
Then I realized the importance of succeeding in school so I was very determined to work hard in school and have exceptional grades. By the time High School came around I was mostly taking all difficult classes. These were the challenges that I faced in my life. Now I feel that I am ready for any challenge that I might have in the…
I have gotten to a point in my life when I need to realize who I want to become and what goals I want to achieve. There was a point in my life in which I felt that I need to work twice as hard as my other classmates. I felt that I needed to work twice as hard because I was in a wheelchair. I did not want my classmates to think that I was getting the grade just because I was in a wheelchair. I think that sometimes people think that teachers give me good grades because of sympathy.…
I may only be 18 years old, but I must admit that I've gone through a lot in my life. In all honesty, I'm thankful for all the struggles I've endured. I was given these obstacles because I am capable of overcoming them, one way or another. One obstacle I faced growing up was bullying. I never knew how to stick up for myself.…
In my earlier years, I went through school, graduated high school, and had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. I couldn’t pick, there was so much to choose from. I was terrified of failing at any career I found interesting. That is what held me back. I had thought about just going to work after I graduated and skipping college until I figured out what I wanted to do.…
These college articles were really intriguing and corrected a lot of misconceptions I had mainly on submitting a college application and being accepted. I read the “The 3 most common college application mistakes” by Miranda Foreman first, which will help me a lot with writing an honest and informative essay about myself for college soon. I plan on going to UTSA and though I know the acceptance rate is somewhat high I think it would still be beneficial to write a good college application as there is a possibility I could get financial help or impress them somehow. I was not aware that trying to write too many things in my college application essay could draw away from its impact on them.…
Teaching college students can be challenging. But for those who love what they do the challenge is what keeps us going. Every year new students come in and out of my lecture hall. Some you will never talk to, some you somehow can’t get them to stop talking, and then others leave a lasting imprint on their fellow peers, faculty and staff. Our students are relentlessly challenging what we thought we knew about a subject and class that we have been teaching for numerous years.…
Overcoming Adversity Becoming a successful engineering student is my main goal in college, specifically always having a great grade. But unfortunately, there are different kinds of barriers that always keep me from achieving that goal. College is full of these barriers, and there is no way to avoid these challenges but to actually confront them. One of my current adversity is not being skillful in math.…
Freshman Year College Obstacles The first semester of a college student’s career is one of the most exciting, yet stressful semesters of their academic career. The stress lies in the unknown and the expectations of what college will bring. Entering college straight out of high school or a job, is a culture shock. A college education and curriculum is different and far more challenging than any students academic high school career.…
Many of us face challenges everyday in our life, sometimes there is good or bad ending depending upon the circumstances. Our whole life we struggle in a way or another. We can’t run away from our problems yet it’s always best to tackle them with being positive but not every time it’s easy as one may assume. Well I can definitely say these struggles reshape us in a way or another and dealing with such struggles might have changed who we are or how we later approached life. Today students of all ages and different degree levels are reporting record highs in stress, which is an overload far too common across today’s college campuses, Also I would like to point out all other major conflicts that a college student goes through and how hard it’s…
In college, students often faced many barriers that prevent them from being successful and do well in school. These barriers cause student to lose focus and lost track of their priorities such as finishing assignments on time and study for upcoming exams. A common barrier that student often face is negative thoughts. Student often give up easily before even trying. For example, students have to a physic class as a requirement to graduate.…