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Student athletes typically work hard for their sports and on their grades. The only way student athletes can stay ahead of their busy schedule is by working ahead of time. Many student athletes pick up positive character traits throughout their sports career such as being mentally tough. Student athletes must learn to be prepared for all of the challenges they may face. Participating in a sport is more than just using skills to reach a goal on a field or a court. The lessons learned while being…

Freshman Students and Their Experience of Stress Attending a university after transitioning out of high school can be a stressful and challenging experience. Adapting to the new lifestyle change and structure of college can take time. For first year students, it is the time for them to get connected to the university, make new friends, and get involved on campus. Overall, the challenges of new coursework, combined with the associated new lifestyle that college brings, can be overwhelming for…

Two articles talk about how computer software is becoming a trend in grading students’ essays. Computer software that grades multiple-choice exams has been around for a while. New software has been developed in more recent years to tackle grading essays. Computer grading has evolved in the recent years, but the journey of computers grading essays has just begun. Computers grading essays is still a new concept; therefore, many kinks still need to be addressed. Like all new ideas, computers…

college students develop negative habits or attributes their freshman year, often times following them, for years to come. A new world emerges with the transition of high school into college. Living upon a new set of rules, new students experience a lifestyle that until recently, had been considered uncharted territory. Although in most cases, this freedom usually promotes positive growth, it can also impact an emerging students’ life style, and choices in profoundly negative ways. Students face…

Major incongruence may occur for several reasons. First, students might choose their major before they have sufficient knowledge and research to back up their pick about available majors. It is also a great idea to search what careers are aligned with which major, and in this case, not many students do the research. Going on from this, students often are required to early to choose their career path. Talk of picking a major can be heard as early as high school level in South Korea or even before…

Attention and its effect on College Students Learning is the process of memorization, integration, and application of new information and concepts. All of us, at one point in our lives have been told to “pay attention”. But distractions easily divert our focus, taking our concentration to conversations across the room, or to a passing train out the window, or to a spot on a speaker’s collar. Attention effects the way we learn and effects the life’s of college students in the United States. It…

graduates have median annual earnings of $28,000 . The opportunities that a college degree gives a student are vast and valuable. However, many think that those opportunities are not enough. In particular, the idea of paying athletes has become a hot topic recently and many universities have already started compensating their athletes. Universities should not be paying their athletes because they are students receiving an education, not professional athletes. While juggling a full course load,…

Newcomers To GCC “Students cited not liking school, failing school and not getting along with teachers are the three most frequently cited reasons for dropping out”. As a first time college student walking through campus, it can feel overwhelming. Looking around, you see this modern campus with huge space all around you, and your first impression is how would you navigate through it by yourself? Everybody is rushing to class, and you are probably shy to stop anybody to ask where a building is…

designed to provide support to at-risk students and failing school systems. We attribute to a unique, holistic approach, which we call Whole School Whole Child. It’s based around a group of carefully selected, highly trained young adults called the AmeriCorps members. AmeriCorps members is a group that has a passion in giving back to at risk communities. Members spend 11 months serving hands on service in City Year's partner schools to provide extra support for students, teachers, and the…

When looking at college athletes, we see them as athletes before students, we do not think about what that athlete may be feeling. Being a college athlete whether it be a division I athlete or a junior college athlete comes with high expectations to perform well. It is a huge time commitment because they must work out to stay in shape, go to practice every day, memorize plays, and travel to games while trying to maintain good academic standing. This can take its toll on their mental health,…