Okanagan University College

Being a college student is not an easy task. Balancing finals with work, friends, and other activities may seem to be impossible. People are paying thousands and thousands of dollars to attend a school where they plan on getting a high quality education and a good paying job once they graduate. Now, imagine doing all of those plus a sport. Imagine competing at a higher level than they have ever competed at, while under the pressure to succeed. Imagine the amount of stress they will compile over…

article “The Influence of Family Income and Parents Education on Digital Access: Implications for First-Year college Student,” the author stated “ Of households headed by someone with post-college education, 69.9% had internet access. That compares to households headed by someone with a college degree alone 65%, those with some college experience 49.0%, those educated beyond high school but no college degree 29.9%, and those with less that a high school degree 11.7%. The statistics shows the…

about the genuine purpose of education in university. What’s the definition of uni? Our schoolmaster Mr. 戚万学 had talked about his own understanding of university in this year’s welcoming ceremony speech. He said, the word university is formed by 2 characters in Chinese, the first Chinese character大 reveals spreading thoughts, powerful rationality and wide concern for others, and the second character学 interprets acquiring healthy…

arrangements for college life students to offer the most effective solutions on saving money from local merchants on the value of college supplies, food and housing cost by way of use of GPS synchronized with urban living and in accordance to valued saving on behalf of educational…

volunteering, and factors related to current volunteering and how these specific factors relate to college students volunteering. Volunteering can be considered a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking or a person who performs a service willingly and without pay. Furthermore, in addition to this study providing an in depth view into what factors contribute to college students volunteering, this particular study also gave exclusive statistics on the various…

Price Given the intangibility of education services it is important for Victoria University to maximise their perceived value. The price of fees, cost of living and the ability to offset costs through part time work are the main price considerations before students decide to study abroad. The research included in this report on Thailand shows there were over 24,000 Thai students who studied overseas in 2012 and only 2% studied in New Zealand. Also the fact that only 0.5% of total Thai students…

Being a senior last year, I had to start thinking about where I wanted to go to college. When looking into colleges I also had to look into the tuition prices because I knew that I did not have the funds to pay for college on my own. With going into my fall semester at GGC I only had the money that FASFA had granted be to pay for college and I had not started working yet. Since I did not have money saved up I did not take as many classes as I wanted to. My mom’s friend told me about how her son…

student I am looking to improve my chances of getting accepted to the University of California. What is the probability of a transfer student getting accepted to a four-year university from a community college and what are the requirements? In fall 2016 the University of Los Angeles had a total of 22,281 transfer students that applied for admissions, And 5,667 were admitted totaling a 25% admit rate. Also, in fall 2016 at the University of Southern California 8,750 applications from transfer…

My decision to return to college was purely random. There was no pondering over the decision; no weighing in the pros and cons, no thinking it through or any real thought behind it. I literally woke up one morning and said to myself “I think I’ll go back to college” and I made the call. I called the College of New Rochelle and made the appointment for the admissions test. And before I knew what was actually happening, I was a matriculated college student. Now let’s back up a little to a time…

One way or another we all had conceived a dream; dreams can be inspiring, but many times dreams can lead to disappointments. For instance, many times immigrants migrate to the United States to pursuit the “American dream” despite the risks they may encounter. Growing up I didn’t really hear “these stories” until later in life. Many families feel the need to go to el otro lado for better opportunities and to be able to provide to their families. Both of my parents are immigrants and just like…