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Furthermore, although there were concerns over the self-report nature of university attainment, results here suggest that those who took a gap-year may have been less likely to drop-out of university and more likely to be enrolled in university had they instead entered university directly (Parker, Thoemmes, Duineveld, and Salmela-Aro). The statistics shown above can be used for the opposing side of the gap year when it states…

From the beginning of college note taking is a factor that is necessary for most classes. On the one hand, some argue that note taking is a waste of time and useless. On the other hand, however, the majority argues that note taking improves your performance in class, leading you to succeed in college. In the words of this view’s main proponents, “Research indicates that taking notes in class and reviewing those notes . . . have a positive impact on student learning” (Bligh, 86), and “ultimately…

Queen’s, Cornell and others instruct faculty and staff on how to look for warning signs that could signal a student in crisis, making it a campus-wide effort… Bounce Back, at Carleton University, which sets up undergrads who receive less than a 60 per cent average in their first semester with an upper-year mentor… Canadian Association of College and University Student Services … partnered with the Canadian Mental Health Association, to study best practices in Canada and abroad… University of…

Executive Officers. “’If you’re a state legislator, you look at all your state’s programs and you say, ‘Well, we can’t make prisoners pay, but we can make college students pay,’’ Ronald Ehrenberg, the director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute and a trustee of the State University of New York System, once told me in an interview” (42). This is another form of ethos used in Catherine Rampell’s essay. First, she uses the quote as another source for her information and to further…

Being a student is never easy, especially when having to work persistently and being told that the definition of the effort you’ve put in is one number under 5. Having a higher grade point average does not mean the student is better fit for certain elite colleges, a student with a lower GPA and higher work ethic may be able and ready for the hard work involved in college. Having a stronger work-ethic, being persistent, and studying hard is what I believe should get students into colleges. Having…

Mental Illness Mental Illness is very serious situation that is not look upon much on college campuses. Many students face this situation but nobody really discusses it. It affects more people than one would think. In Rosie Anaya’s The Best Kept Secret on Campus she uses rhetorical appeals of pathos, logos, and ethos to emphasize the issue of mental illness awareness and solutions on college campuses. In The Best Kept Secret on Campus by rhetor Rosie Anaya, her essay mentions how in college…

15, two words that bring fear into the eyes of all incoming freshman. The freshman 15 is an infamous saying, claiming that all freshman gain 15 pounds their first year in college. But this isn’t surprising, if you were to take a walk around the University of Texas at San Antonio campus, you would come face to face with the nation’s unhealthiest food choices, packed with high sodium, sugar, and fat. On campus, there are a few healthy options however, these options are usually not fresh. The issue…

For roughly two out of three students in America senior year of high school tasks them with one of the most important, if not the most important, decision of their young lives: where to go to college. In a world where a college degree is becoming more of a necessity than a résumé builder, the decision of where to go to college is becoming increasingly more important to America’s youth. Additionally, with the high price of college and the shrinking job market making the right decision is more…

very clear list showing the top ten colleges that has the richest alumnus. From the list we can see that Harvard is the first place, with 2964 multi-millionaires and a total wealth added up to $622 billion, and then comes the University of Pennsylvania, the Columbia University, Yale, Connell and Princeton. Six out of eight Ivy League colleges has the top 10 richest alumni in the world. However, how they manage to generate so many millionaires? The answer to this question is mainly two kinds:…

David J. Skorton is the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute and formerly the president of Cornell University. Last year, he wrote in the journal Scientific American, “It is through the study of art, music, literature, history, and other humanities and social sciences that we gain a greater understanding of the human condition than biological or physical…