Bluefield State College

Every day, students across the United States and beyond prepare for the SAT. These unfortunate students spend countless hours and dollars in the hopes of maximizing their scores and their futures. The SAT was designed to test a student’s academic knowledge and performance, but fails to do so today. Its credibility as an academic benchmark should be acknowledged, but the test should not be valued so highly. The SAT is far from perfect, yet high schools and colleges place much weight on it. Many…

more time in the course of preparation of their assignments than grading late work. School districts simplify work for the students to help them along and pass, when instead teachers need to ensure that their students are ready for the work load in college and for the rest of their life. Students focus more on how many questions are going to be on the test or how it is going to be graded than the actual material or learning of the subject. Furthermore, students are unmotivated to do work and…

When people go to college you expect to have to do things on your own with little to no assistance, and that all the staff members will be a Grinch. Well I like to keep an open mind, and believe everyone, and every place is good. But I truly believe that Tarrant County College is a great school filled with faculty ready to help when they can, and good resources provided for every student when needed. During the Helpful survey, 10 percent of the students agreed that there was little to no…

1. What are your reasons for applying to Rutgers University School of Social Work? Discuss how your personal, professional, and/or community experiences and values affected your decision? The most important influence for pursing a graduate degree at Rutgers University School of Social Work is to break down barriers and obstacles that have been placed in front of me. I grew up in a non-tradition family so I never had an example of what life should be. My mother was a victim of domestic violence,…

Latina/o family can sometimes negatively impact the students voyage towards college. One theory Stern shares is that neighborhoods that Latina/o students live in prove to be an obstacle for many. Stern states that Latinos “live in neighborhoods with many fewer college-educated residents than are in African-American areas. Growing up in a neighborhood with so few college-educated people creates problems for students finding the college application process tricky” (Stern, 2009). Stern continues by…

just what high school is though, it teaches us lessons we could not learn anywhere else. In Mr. McGee’s class especially pushes us because of his overload of work that we are given. Still his class prepares you for the next level of education in college. Throughout high school there have been three ways to continue to improve and check my progress during my time as a high school student, these are track my current level of success, knowing my strengths and weaknesses, and creating goals, lastly…

Area 1: Attack Significance My partner says no offering free college education might cause students who have financial difficulties end up looking for alternative ways to meet their material demands. I don’t quite agree with this point because for many college students the primary reasons that they want to be sugar babies are that they can be brought to the fancy restaurants, be provided with generous gifts, and probably with tuition subsidizes. In an article written by Leroy, he mentions that…

The emotional pendulum that kids go through during the crazy years of adolescent hood is easily more intense then that of a middle age woman going through her menopause stage. The only real difference is that the middle age woman has years of experience and even though her body might not have ever been through this exact type of feeling, they still have the knowledge of how crazy life’s tenures can be. As for a kid they have no past experience with any of what is going to happen next in life. It…

education would permit an easier financial situation to certain families, a better mental health and would prevent debt at such a young age. First of all, the cost of university or college is often too expensive for low-income or large families. For one, tuition fees vary depending on the program and/or school. According to College Board, the average cost of tuition and fees for the 2015–2016…

from a college. Moreover, I would like to attend a college for three main reasons: to take advantage of the opportunities around myself, to start a tradition in my family, and to reach my career goal of becoming a high school band director. Nevertheless, college is definitely a goal I want to complete. My grandpa always told me that with age comes wisdom, and I have finally begun to realize the truth in that statement. When I was a freshman in high school, I didn’t dream of enrolling in college…