Fort Hays State University

person and loved to meet and talk to new people. The day that I graduated I was so happy to get out of my small town and take charge of this new challenge called college. When I was growing up, my mother always told my brother and I that we are going to go to college to get a degree for the job of our dreams and live a happy life with our own families. I have always thought that college is not a waste of time because that is where you are going to figure out what you are going to do with your life. College is so important because you get to plan your life the exact way you want it to and make your dreams come true. The college that I chose to attend was Fort Hays State University [FHSU]. I have always heard great things about this University and I thought that the smaller college lifestyle suited me more than a large university. The other reason why I chose to attend [FHSU] is that I am running on the track & field team. I always thought that college was going to be an easy adjustment for me, but I was truly wrong. The first month of my college experience has been very hard on me. I was always stressing out about classes, hate living in the dorms, and homesickness was kicking my butt. I now look back at some of my high school classmates that chose not to go to college and think how sad they seem regarding their post high school life. The real question is college a waste of four years of your life? My personal answer is no because college is the gateway to becoming the…

Fort Osage High School is a co-ed public high school in Independence, Missouri. Classes are held at FOSH for pupils in grades 9 through 12. The gender divide at the school is 52 percent male and 48 percent female. There are about 1500 pupils enrolled and the student-to-teacher ratio is 19:1. It's a school in the Fort Osage R-I School District. State assessments show 66 percent of pupils are proficient in English and 51 percent are proficient in Mathematics. The graduation rate is 95 percent,…

would be. I wanted to specifically study voice and viola. Unfortunately I had to choose one or the other for my major. When I auditioned for the different colleges: “University of Northern Colorado”, “Colorado University”, and “Colorado State University” , I still did not know what my focus would be. I decided to audition for the choral and instrumental department. The auditioning process was rigorous, competitive, and very nerve racking. I was not very experienced in soloistic performing. I…

The Home of Human Sciences Annie Danielson a wise philosopher once said, “Home is where our story begins” and so our story will begin. Home is anywhere a person can be themselves and can feel comfortable there without feeling pressured. When Human Science majors think of their home at Iowa State they think of one building in particular, Palmer, the Human Development and Family Studies Building. Palmer is the utmost significant place on campus for Human Science majors because of the history of…

UC Riverside, Fresno State, San Francisco State University and West Hills Community College. Thinking about where I wanted to go was very overwhelming and stressful. I was only seventeen going on eighteen and I had to start thinking about what I wanted to do with my life, it felts as if I was running out of time. I come from a hispanic family that has dedicated their time…

Huey Pierce Long Jr., also known as The Kingfish, was born in Winnfield, Louisiana on August 30, 1893 (Jeansonne 1). At the age of seventeen, Huey was a traveling salesman from, Louisiana, to Texas, to Tennessee (Simkin 1). At the age of twenty- one, Long went to get his college education from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. In 1918, Huey started practicing his law career in Shreveport, Louisiana. He presented small plaintiffs against large businesses (Life & Times 3). Long made a…

Yes, I arrived late and my chances had decreased. This would not stop me, though. During breakfast, lunch, and dinner in Mississippi State University’s cafeteria, I would pleasantly take a seat at a table where I knew not a single face and end up leaving knowing them all. We exchanged many conversations like what city we came from, how many siblings we endured, our favorite ice creams, careers we were suggesting, our favorite brands of clothing, and then came what we were running for. I told…

environment on campus are: 1. Iowa State University is a public university who has to abide by the Rehabilitation Act. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 states that institutions must create access to facilities and activities accommodating to everyone (Johnson, 2011). Access to facilities in this case is a challenge for students with orthopedic disabilities due to older residence halls. Iowa State…

The value of a college education has always generally been high in the United States of America. Most Americans believe that if you work hard and get a college education you are destined to succeed, but what happens when you cannot afford to go to college? Public universities were once easily accessible and affordable, but with rising housing costs and tuitions only those with the most money can afford to get a higher education. Most people assume this is due to inflation, but there is actually…

The Capstone Design conference is held at Penn State Harrisburg, and allows senior engineering students to showcase projects that they have worked on throughout the course of their senior year. This conference also doubles as a competition amongst all of the engineering students on campus. During the course of my capstone project, I worked with five other senior civil engineering students, to innovate an original design concept for our campus. Our design concept was a three story parking…