A successful person is more than just a good student. I believe that this is the meaning of National Honor Society. In order to be successful I must possess dedication towards scholarship, leadership, character, and service. This dedication not only will be beneficial in my high school career, but also for the rest of my life. One of my teachers once said that everything we do today affects the rest of our lives. This means that my dedication of today will produce my success of tomorrow.…
The College Admissions Crisis Nation-wide, students suffer at the hands of the college admissions process and its scrupulous requirements. The standards by which students are allowed into college must be transformed to accommodate students of all backgrounds, not just the privileged who have the spare time to cater to the current standard. An average student in America is drowned in school assignments, studying for tests, doing extracurricular sports and joining clubs that look good on…
Yale in a event called regatta, the racing of boats or yachts. Paying college athletes should be something that colleges take into consideration for the students that give their time to dedicate themselves to their team and coaches to be the best at the sport they play. Paying college athletes should be a must because it is like a job to students. It takes a lot of effort and time to play sports in college and depending on the sport it can wear on their bodies and do damage to them, they…
own age. It made me think about my own interactions and development as I was observing others. Starbucks is a common meetings place and study location for college students. Even though the majority of the people there were college students, some were adults. I paid attention how their behaviors differed from those of the college students. As I observed I noticed that of the groups it was mainly groups of all guys or all girls. I found this interesting because at this stage of development girls…
how difficult the exam was for me. I had no idea how often hundreds or A’s are given to students each year in colleges and universities in America. In the past 55 years, there have been many indications of grade inflation affecting colleges and universities in the United States. Grades first started to rise in the 1960s, flattened in the 1970s, and rose again in the 1980s (Rojstaczer 68).…
Working alone has its benefits. Groups can be distracting.They can slow students down and have them unfocused. However, group work prepares you for the real world. It gives students an idea about how to work with people. Afterall, team work is needed in the real world, especially for working at a job. When teachers allow students to participate in group work, students gain a lot of benefits from doing so. Students get to socialize and get help from others. They put their heads together for…
group of educators are drawn to a school, the district can begin the selection process. During this process schools are charged with matching the right person with the right job. This process has recently been streamlined to include background and reference checks, demo lessons and interviews, which can sometimes lead to offering jobs on the spot. Once candidates are recruited, selected and have committed to working at a school the assignment or placement process begins. This process is…
Pressures Treatments Do you ever wonder why pressure seems to affect everyone in today's society? Everyone suffers from our high-speed lifestyle, but the people who suffer most are college students. According to William Zinnser's "College Pressures", we, students, mainly have the following four kinds of pressure: economic, family, peers and self-induced. Although I have not had to deal with parental pressure and self-induced pressure, I am overcoming peers pressure and financial…
As a student in Australia, I have had limited experience with education systems outside of the Australian programme. The short documentary, "Education Gangnam Style," reported on by Matthew Carney for ABC Foreign Correspondent, is an expository piece about South Korea's education system. South Korea has achieved very high scores internationally when ranked with other education systems, beating Australia’s rankings. The documentary aims to reveal the negative affects that the high achieving…
Steve Jobs was born February 24, 1955 and died October 5, 2011. Steve was born to two college students and was put up for adoption. He was then adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. It was Paul who had first encouraged Steve to experiment with electronics. He attended a school in California and later went to Reed College in Portland, Oregon. During his school years he had great test results and qa lot of potential. Although all of the above is true, his teachers said he was not an easy student to…