Henderson State University

Calm, cool, and chill moments all add up to days I am incredibly grateful for. I am given the choice to hang out with friends, go to new places, and experience new activities. I have the full twenty four hours of the day to do what pleases me. I have no worries about essays over topics I don’t care about, math tests that I know I won’t pass, and quizzes over a foreign language that I’ll never use. I always say to myself, “I’m never going back to school” or “Mom; I don’t need to go to school.”…

The change from high school to college can be dramatic for most young adults. In high school students are excited to move on to a high level of thinking along with friends. High school is also where children go to prepare them for college. High school and college are similar in many aspects. They both create excitement, curiosity, a need environment with more freedom and a new experience in which our youth yearn to explore at least once in their lives. High school is immature fun, a time where…

Bright Water School Lock-In Many of the students who attend the school dances we hold are overjoyed to hear that it 's possible there will be more dances held this year, and we entertained the idea of having seasonal dances. When I brought this idea up to my teacher, I was informed that the dances are, to my dismay, quite hard to put together. When Miss Kerr heard that the idea of dances and socializing with other class was important to the students, she presented the idea of a "Lock-in." I, and…

students. Student athletes have the term students for a reason. Money would begin to get into their head and many student athletes will begin to think they are professional athletes. Education should be their main focus in college. The New Republic states that more than 30,000 men play N.C.A.A Division 1 football and basketball throughout a year. That is a huge amount of players every year. All student athletes with one dream; to make it pro. Also stated by The New Republic, a little less than…

Imagen a world where people live their lives paycheck to paycheck; where money is only enough to get people through life. Many U.S. families are living this daily, where money just comes and goes but never actually stays. Society has a structure where if a person doesn’t have money, that person is a nobody. But how exactly people obtain money? One of the many paths people take is college. Although there are some who believe that life experience is much more important than college; Pursuing a…

College Students Should Use Technology Wisely Recollecting my first class in college, I saw many students carried laptops or tablets, taking notes faster than me on these devices. Interestingly, I found out they are also using them in class, escaping from the reality to a fascinating online world. That is how Millennials attend a traditional lecture based class. The characteristics of the digital era defined what they learn and how they learn. Millennial college students are facilitating and…

lobbying for policies that would help students eliminate huge portions of debt. Of course the list can continue on and on with approaches to solve this crisis. Yet, the responsibility is up to us as parents, civilians, and students ourselves to make universities and the American government understand what changes need to be made. Yes, it is reasonable to assume that these solutions will have flaws that need to be tweak. Nevertheless, any of these solutions could be placed into action especially…

affected the technology. The two essay and the movie that would demonstrate this point are “Ivory tower blues” written by James E. and “Ivy league” written by Lauren Cassani Davis and the movie is “Generation boomerang” and source was from CBC. Many university have lowered their standards in order to have teenagers to apply to their school, due to the lack of knowledge and the level of knowledge that the student have in this decade have dramatically decreases comparing to the previous…

College Should Be Valued, But Is Not Necessary For Success Higher Education is a topic that individuals definitely have split opinions for. Some people may argue that the cost is not worth the education benefits. Others may say that even though they were able to earn the degree, the debt that they are now left with is making it difficult to make ends meet. Another opinion received is that people can be just as successful through learning a trade through experience without getting a degree.…

“Since Sandy Hook there has been a school shooting, on average, every week. How on earth can live with ourselves if we do nothing.” Said Senator Chris Murphy. According to the statistics, there has at least one school shooting since 2013. However there was a tragic event happened before. For Instance, The Virginia Tech School massacre was a school shooting that took place on April 16, 2007 on the campus of Virginia polytechnic institute. This deadliest shooting incident happened by a single…