Macquarie University

A life of Adventure This morning as I knocked on the door to my fiancés apartment and her roommate Margarita answers the door. I don’t know if it is normal in the Ukraine to let your friends stand out in the cold, but after a few awkward moments she let me in the door. Over the past several weeks I have gotten know Margarita, and though we have extremely different lifestyles, and I have come to admire her adventurous spirit. She has a passion to visit foreign places, she has a thirst for…

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…

The debate towards college athletes being paid or if they should not be paid has been going on for some years now. There are different perspectives towards the subject and a wide variety of reasoning’s to why college athletes should or should not be paid. The fact of the matter is that college athletes need to understand the position in which they are in. They need to respect their position and be thankful for the opportunity that they are given. Not only should college athletes appreciate their…

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…

We are in high school now, and that means soon we will all be going our own ways and starting our future. Some of use will go to college, but soon college might undergo a change to be free. College education being free would affect the job market, unemployment, and the people financially. Right now free college is beings talked about with the current student debt, the college plan itself, other countries, the cost, and rising tuition prices. The United States student debt is at an all time…

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…