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In our generations many college graduates hold wide expectations for jobs in their specialized fields, fully aware of the unemployment rate and job openings. With many graduates heading into certain fields, such as pharmacy, less jobs are open—or so it seems. Aiming his argument towards the general public, Eduardo Porter, author of Unemployment Is So 2009: Labor Shortage Gives Workers an Edge, goes against this claim, affirming that the United States is facing a shortage in the labor force,…

Summary: “Does Coming to College Mean Becoming Someone New?” In “Does Coming to College Mean Becoming Someone New?”, Kevin Davis argues students going to college may face the choice of changing into someone new, to join a discourse community, or select one more aligned with their beliefs and values. Davis uses his experience with an unsuccessful attempt to join the English discourse community as a basis for his argument. Initially, Davis “felt like an outsider” (80) when starting his studies as…

TS: Graduating high school is my fondest memory up until today because it was such a long-awaited, unstipulated moment due to my mental health struggles, loss of identity, and loss of faith. All of my roadblocks have shaped me into the person I am today. If it wasn’t for the people and most importantly, God, around me that helped me every step of the way, I wouldn’t be as strong as I am right now. My whole experience with my mental health and loss of identity struggles made graduation ever more…

On the 22nd of May, I graduated from Twinsburg High School; class of 2017 at E.J Thomas Hall of Performing Arts in Akron. Graduating from school has been a very big turning point for me personally. I’ve been through a lot as being a student in school as a victim of being bullied. I was a misfit as a child growing up, being a fatherless son and not like the other boys, I found myself unattractive. In school, I would do my work when supposed to, but I was always harassed by the other students.…

A buoyant buzz travels throughout the entirety of South High School. A simple scene; many people. Seemingly, I see a new face in the halls every day. I don’t notice how important each person is, and the impact they have on my life. Their presence is taken for granted until there comes a day that one of them is lost. This year on March seventh, although being on a weekday, I was fortunate enough to celebrate my birthday on a late start Tuesday which also happened to be National Pancake Day.…

“Our Graduates are Rubes”, written by Tom Nichols, introduces the idea that colleges are failing in both their responsibilities to educate and establish a foundation of civic responsibilities. Nichols believes this comes as a result of four specific problems in the college system today: “the pampering of students as customers, the proliferation of faux “universities,” grade inflation, and the power reversal” (B3). The author believes schools try too hard to make their campus feel like home and a…

In Liz Addison’s article “Two Years Are Better than Four”, she questions the American historian/journalist’s, Rick Perlstein’s, opinions on the up and coming modern college experience. In his opinion piece, Perlstein insinuates that the introspection aspect of college is just not valued by students any more. Addison repudiates Perlstein’s remarks, stressing that, “Mr. Perlstein…would never think to look for himself in the one place where the college experience of self-discovery does still matter…

After graduating high school, many students start their first year of college. For most students, they enroll into college in hopes to begin their career path or to figure one out. In his essay “Colleges Prepare People for Life”, Freeman Hrabowski focuses on how people’s lives are indeed being prepared by college. Hrabowski argument is very convincing, but it only gives a few examples on how college does prepare people for life. More elaboration and detail needs to be provided in his essay. Many…

“We know what we are, but not what we may be” (Shakespeare 207). When I was in elementary school back in 2003, I did not know that there was an unspoken rule of not involving ourselves with people who were deemed as “inferior” in the school at the time. I also did not make the connection that I was considered as an “inferior” to the eyes of my peers at the time. At the tender age of six, I liked to wear hair bows with bright colored dresses with two pigtails, a usual young girly girl style.…

Bracey Dyer ENG 101: Rhetoric & Composition I Journal 2 27 September 2017 The Ambitious Change from High School to College The transition from high school to college can be more than nerve racking. It is the day that many teenagers dream for while attending high school. High school is a great time for memories, new friends, and where all the fun is made. The expectations students have for college are usually far from what was imagined. Parties, school clubs, and homework due at midnight…