Berea College

as beyond it. Apart from the academics, I participated in various extracurricular activities like competitions, sport events in my school and college. I am also an active member of an NGO named “Help Us to Help the Child” (H.U.H.C.), which thrives on an aim of educating the under privileged children. This NGO was a joint initiative taken up during my college days and with a few…

the decision to seek me out was a difficult one, the unspoken anxiety hanging in the air. Having hardly worked together a week, this staff member was trusting me immensely to confide complications in his life, specifically and most recently in his college experience. It was this encounter that began our authentic working relationship, spending most of the time listening to this person rapidly describe feelings of anxiety, depression, self-doubt, panic, and struggling with decisions. Throughout…

The Effects of a College Education College students often complain about how difficult the work they are given is. Usually people take the first year of college to adjust to the new environment and they begin to understand that it will take effort to be able to obtain the degree they want. They can at times forget that all of the stress that they are under during those four years in college will only benefit them later on. College Education has many effects on people’s lives and their futures,…

One thing i think many can agree on is the fact that college is hard. Yes, college is hard, is this an excuse to fail? No, it is certainly not. I can say that being more prepared for the major differences between high school and college would have certainly been helpful, and may have kept me from failing. One major difference between college and highschool is the type of work given. I learned in college that papers are 99% of assignments, for the majority of class types. During…

and courageously. This is how character is built” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt. When I was in high school in the 1980’s, college was for the very academic students most of my high school classmates went on to a vo-tech school and trained to be mechanics, beauticians, plumbers, carpenters, electricians or joined the military. I was a good student and I was accepted into a college. I began college not having a clue what I wanted to study nor having the means to pay for it. School felt like I merely…

before our typical Talented And Gifted program starts. As I excelled through school it was also expected that I would attend college when the time came. My parents were willing to support any decision I made as long as it would challenge me and that I had educated reasons in making my choice. My grandparents were also big supporters of a college education and started a college fund for me before I even started school. My parents and teachers started to do things so that I was prepared for the…

Summer Slininger Within the College Transition Seminar that the University of Iowa offers, I have learned a lot about the university and myself. The College Transition Seminar has done what it said it would – helped me transition in to the college lifestyle. Whether we were talking about study tips or how to go to office hours, I was learning a lot of information that is directly related to my success on the collegiate level. I have learned an amazing amount within the context of responsibility…

bookworm would have been a decisive reason to get beaten up (23). As he grew older the fear of being beaten up for reading was replaced by the fear of flunking out of college. His lack of reading when he was younger made it difficult for him to do academic reading (24). He finally came to appreciate literature by reading the critics in his college years. That is what the moment that encapsulates him as a reader and a teacher. For me, my race didn’t drive be to pretend like I didn’t like…

I remember elementary school very well. I cried everyday of Kindergarten, begging my patient teacher, Mrs. Graber, to allow my mom to come and pick me up. I chewed on the ribbons of my pink floral dress, tears streaming down my face, too scared to talk to other kids and too homesick to pay attention to lessons. Mrs. Graber rocked me in her chair, daily. She gave me homework to catch up on the things that I had been too grief stricken to comprehend. Eventually, I grew out of my fears of school,…

“The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences.” –Maria Montessori Although she may have had some radical ideas for her time, I feel that Maria Montessori touches upon a necessity of success in education, interest. In my own educational career, and now in my career as an educator, I have seen how interest can make all the difference in the effort and attention a child puts into their coursework. My purpose in applying…