Junior college

compassion, and a goal to become a doctor. Ever since I met her I’ve always been on my top game because I have always assumed our friendship was built on each other academic successes that would be the spinal cord to the gates of glory we call college. During the months we were developing our friendship I was excelling in all my classes including the ones I use to struggle with in the past. I wouldn’t blame her for my success but she was that extra push I was missing. She wasn’t my cheerleader…

In the Spring of last year, it was my Junior year, one of the most critical years in high school. It’s the year that colleges look at the most, also it was the year that I was in some of the most challenging classes. Mostly honors, a lot of homework, and tests to go along with it. Studying would take me until late at night, and even on weekends, all day long. When it’s the end of the term everyone checks their grades for their report cards, and progress reports. One day when I went to check…

is not a typical career college freshman consider but it combines my passion for dance and helping people (without viewing bodily fluids). I have been dancing since I was five years old and will be entering Umass Amherst this fall as a dance major. Although I vehemently protested majoring in dance for years and fought the notion of being a 'starving artist', the truth of the matter is I can not live without dance in my life. I finally accepted that I would apply to colleges in the fall of 2014…

In recent years there has been a debate inside college athletics that centers around the true value of college athletes and whether or not a scholarship is truly enough to keep the athletes in school and ensure they get their degrees. Many athletes in Division I sports, primarily basketball and Football Bowl Subdivision college football see college as a stepping stone to either the NFL or the NBA. The NCAA tracks the graduation rates in these sports via the GSR, or Graduation Success Rate,…

Rancho Mirage High School. I will be the first in my family to earn my high school diploma, I will also be the first to attend college. My life has been a rollercoaster I have been through some tough times although I gained strength in return. Over the years I learned from my bad habits and transformed them into good habits. In school, I struggled with my academics a lot my junior year I hit rock bottom to the point I didn’t want to be in on earth anymore, however, I changed my mind and started…

(NCAA)”. The primary purpose of the study was to force college administrators to make transparent the racial inequities at their institutions. In the study, Harper et al argued that most college administrators contend that the primary reason for the academic inequities in their sports programs is that they are unable to enroll enough academically qualified African-American male students (Lederman p. 1 cited Harper p. 8). However, these same colleges have no problems enrolling numerous…

Reader Response Essay-Liberal Education Every year students prepare themselves vigorously to successfully be ready for the journey they are about to embark on: their college years. These years are the ones where one is supposed to find themself, but also be successful and happy with what they are choosing as their journey in life. These adventures, achievements, and accomplishments are considered to some, a Liberal Education. What truly is considered a Liberal Education? It seems as though…

because I constantly worried that I would not be able to perform to the best of my abilities as a mentor. While my students were in the College of Natural Sciences, they were very diverse; some had come in knowing what their major was, but many were either undeclared or looking to transfer to another college. Along with this, some students came in with many college credits while others were completely fresh to university life. Finding a common ground was very difficult with the students. Rather…

Yargo Park at a picnic table across from my mother, and we were talking about my college plans. I had worked all year to find that right school for me and decide what I wanted to study. Now, I was running over the numbers with my mom to make sure we knew exactly what we were looking at for the next four years. I had had a bad feeling about the tuition I was facing, but I ignored it because I was so excited to start college.…

parents know that this beginning experience on the football field as an eight-year-old was going to pave the way to many more experiences, memories, and helping to mold me into the person and player that I am today. Throughout elementary school and junior high, I worked hard in both football and basketball, but football was always the one thing that I knew was meant for me to do. I am so lucky to have parents that supported me. Both my mom and dad would be on the sidelines of every single game…