Academia

Essay First Draft How do you write an essay? It is something teachers have asked you to do countless times, yet you still do not understand completely. The dreaded thought of writing an essay may soon become a new strength. By knowing the proper steps, you will be able to write a solid and well-rounded essay. There are three basic steps to follow whilst creating your essay; planning, drafting, and editing. The first step is to plan your essay, which will take 40% of your total essay writing…

I see many issues as a threat to our community of transfer students and I as a transfer student can empathize with them on some of these issues. One issue is lack of knowing the vast resources that UMD provides for its students. Many transfer students come to UMD and notice that it’s nothing like their community college they are exposed to differences in class and campus size, academic rigor, etc. The fact that many transfer students don’t know the various resources that UMD offers such as…

How will your time abroad impact you? What will you bring back to CCSU to impact others in the campus community? Studying abroad comes with numerous benefits and values that have the potential to change a person’s life. My time abroad will impact my life because it will not only broaden my perspective on America but on my life as well. Everyone knows that America is the land of the free and the home of the brave, however many Americans do not understand the privilege of this statement. When…

Academic Dishonesty In technically terms I have been academically dishonest on numerous occasions. Most of these being in high school. These instances have been mostly within my group of friends who are pressured by our parents to do as best we can in school. Our group had different specialties in which people would say we were complete “nerds” in. Since we were in similar classes and had our different specialties we would use each other as resources while doing assignments. Sometimes it was…

Introduction Over the past several weeks, I had the opportunity to experience the first step towards my PhD. During this time I was introduce to the “Culture of inquiry”. This concept went far beyond simply being handed the tools to research different business topics of my interest. Rather, this idea gave me the tools I needed to go deep within myself to discover things about me that I may not have otherwise known. As a result, this essay will cover my strengths and the areas that I want…

My project will be based around my future career path of becoming an academic director for athletics. Working with student- athletes is a rewarding task for you are helping mentor them at making decisions for their future after college sports. Therefore, my leadership program will be based on formal mentoring. To me formal mentoring is preparing the mentee for the future by providing advice, guidance and support. My program will consist of a team of properly trained student-athlete alumni as…

Coll 101 Reflection The college experience I imagined and the reality of college were two very different things. For starters, I never imagined college to be so relaxed. A clear majority of my professors were unexpectedly lenient and seemed much less tense than any of my high school teachers. Academically, I was expecting to be challenged. In actuality, it was quite undemanding. I had an unprecedented amount of free time and could game daily. Socially, there was no way college could’ve been…

The job of an educator is not easy. Teaching offers new challenges to face, and new questions to answer every day. I worked with high school social studies students. Both rewarding, and introspective, the experience was incredible. I examined the skills which make me most apt to work with students, while also finding some areas to grow in. Exploring the career of teaching in this course, I had an excellent opportunity to assess my desire to enter this profession. Teaching is a wonderful…

A student being surrounded by video games is almost inevitable, even more so with video game popularity continuing to increase. Video games are readily available on a variety of different devices including mobile ones, which allows one to be able to play video games at any time of the day, anywhere. Because of its time consuming role in a child’s life, the question of whether video games are affecting a child’s academic performance is often argued. Although parents and teachers conclude that…

Marcus acknowledged that he didn 't always see eye to eye with his White professors, especially due to the position of power that faculty held, but he treated it as a learning experience. He felt that he was often on "opposing sides of the table": All of these interactions shaped a great understanding of how I engaged what I perceived to be power. It gives me a fuller understanding of how to assert my own power. Even if they were in negative situations, I gleaned some sort of lesson from the…