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UNV 101: Foundations of University Experience Portfolio Exercise Library Assignment The Library is key to your academic success at Missouri Western State University. While in college, you will be asked to find articles and books for assignments in many of your classes. This exercise is designed to familiarize you with the process of locating a book in the MWSU library using TOWERS, the library’s catalog. You will also learn to locate scholarly articles in a library database/search engine.…

go and what you would like to do. There are many colleges that are of interest all round Missouri and in surrounding states. One of the colleges of interest is Iowa State University in Ames Iowa. This University has a remarkable agriculture program that usually is a bit easier to be accepted into. For non-residents of Iowa though, tuition is generally higher, than it is for resident of the state. Iowa State…

I am a senior at Miami High School and am currently enrolled in various rigorous courses designed for readying students for college. These courses include AP Calculus, AP Literature, and AP Environmental Science. In my junior year, I took two of the most vigorous and mentally challenging courses offered at my school, AP Language and Composition and AP Chemistry. Presently, my educational goal in high school is to raise my rank in my class because currently my unweighted rank is sixth out of one…

am living it head first. It all started when the time in my life came to pick an Univeristy to attend, and boy am I ecstatic with my decision to attend West Virginia University. WVU opened so many doors for me; however, if it was not for my family, I would not be where I am today. I was very content with going to my local University and living at home because that was comfortable to me, but my family encourged me to find a new start. If I was not encouraged, many things would not have happened.…

work, a time that is full of fun, friends, and activities. Though university is a stepping-stone in education with the work you should also find time to have fun. The key to success is time management, organization, and coping with stress. With the different pressures of tuition, school, and grades, safety shouldn't be something that a student should worry about. Sadly this has become the case with open-campus carry law. The Texas State Senate approved a bill that allows the open carry of…

Students in a bad mood are less likely to pay attention and complete their work than students who are happy. Robert Jones, a graduate of the University of South Florida, said in his thesis: “students identified with ‘major depression’ characteristics reported averages of 0.359 to 0.434 grade points lower than non-depressed students.” (3) Dr. Teresa Lesiuk is an Associate Professor and Program Director…

University of the Southwest (Hobbs, NM) The University of the Southwest, founded by B. Clarence Evans, is a nondenominational Christian university established in 1962. Unlike most universities, this university offers three-week “Wintermester” classes, both online and in person, in subjects including criminal justice and sociology. The university offers more than 50 majors and has more than 300 undergraduate students in attendance. The University of the Southwest offers baccalaureate and…

absorb as much information during my lifetime as possible, and learn as much as I can because you only live life once. I take my education very seriously. Now, with liberal education being integrated into the curriculum at thousands of universities in the United States college students across America have the chance to learn, not only, general knowledge in UI 100 type courses, but also learn how to think critically. It is in every college student’s best interest to diversify themselves, and set…

Born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri, Harry S. Truman was the son of a livestock trader. In high school he was a very strong student and always wanted to play sport; he even hoped that one day could join the U.S. Military, but due to his poor vision, the doctors didn’t allow him. Because his family couldn’t afford to send him to collage, after graduating high school he started his first job as a bank clerk. When America entered the World War I in 1917, Truman joined the National Guard and was…

The Glass Menagerie, a play by Tennessee Williams, is a memory play set in St. Louis in 1937 just at the start of the Great Depression in America. The Glass Menagerie focuses on three completely different characters, their dreams, and each individual’s inner struggle to face reality. Laura Wingfield and Tom Wingfield obtain certain weaknesses, which include self-consciousness and the incapability of making the decision to remove oneself from their current circumstances which ultimately inhibits…