Undergraduate education

Approximately 70% of high school seniors in America will enroll in college. That college experience will affect them, not only career-wise but individually. In the essay “College Pressures,” William Zinsser defines the common stresses an average student may go through during their enrollment from his perspective of the master of Branford College. Zinsser informs the reader about the types of tensions that may occur and encourages them to improve the student experience by producing the best…

The article I choose was "Effectiveness of an e-learning tool for education on pressure ulcer evaluation" by Morente, Morales-Asencio and Veredas. The purpose of this article was to determine if e-learning modules would be more effective in teaching the assessment and treatment of pressure ulcers than the traditional classroom methods. Pressure ulcers are serious preventable clinical complications that can lead to pain, infection, hospitalization, and even death (Kelly & Isted, 2011).…

I am a 22 year old female and the first generation of an immigrant family to graduate from college. I got my associates degree in a span of 2 years as I was awarded NJStars due to the fact that I was within the top five of my high school. Since, I have been attending William Paterson University, full time. I took out loans to pay each semester, my NJStars aided $1,000 for two years. The remaining balance is usually around $1,500 which I pay out of pocket. I took up three jobs to pay for school.…

Throughout my senior year of high school I was often asked what I was going to do when I graduated. I had no solid plan, no idea what I was passionate about, and certainly no plans. I had been so busy focusing on getting through high school that I had lost sight of the future. When it came time to try and make a decision, I looked at my classes and my grades. I excelled at math and science. I briefly considered pursuing a career in engineering. However, the thought of spending the foreseeable…

The undergraduate nursing programs (UNP) in the United States usually follow the brick-and-mortar model that adopts the face-to-face teaching environment. It is mainly due to nursing field’s practice-oriented characteristic. More and more UNPs started to adopt blended learning model where e-learning and the traditional classroom teaching co-exist. In the e-learning part, lectures are typically pre-recorded and hosted in the learning management system for students to access 24/7 during the entire…

Today, results in higher education is based on the bell curve, where students compete against each another in a rat race to get to the top of the bell curve in order to score good results. The existence of the bell curve means that students can work very hard and still lose to their peers. This competitive education system is detrimental as it discourages students who does worse than their peers. This causes some to turn into unethical ways to achieve good results and also become more selfish…

Library Services Coordinator, an Assistant Professor, and Reference Librarian at a community college in the Philadelphia area. During the past ten years I have taught undergraduate and graduate courses in research methods, instructional systems, and information literacy. I completed my doctoral degree from Northeastern University in Education. My doctoral research examined how community college English faculty members teach information literacy in an online environment. I completed my…

interest in the Clinical Internship at the Child Mind Institute, which I found listed on the Columbia University Center for Career Education Handshake platform. As a junior, majoring in Biochemistry with a concentration in Psychology, I believe the clinical internship is an ideal blend of my past academic, laboratory and extracurricular experiences. As an undergraduate research assistant at the Champagne Laboratory, which specializes in psychobiology, epigenetics and neuroscience, I’ve…

born and raised. Because the island I lived on faced economic, health, and educational disparities, teaching, sometimes, was a bit of a struggle. At times, I felt like teaching was not enough to get children where they needed to be in the world of education and development. What was missing, in my opinion, was a school or educational psychologist or even a guidance counselor on staff to give children and adolescents that extra push to succeed. While us teachers were burnt out from performing…

I struggle a lot academically in high school. During my freshmen and sophomore year of high school, I would consider myself a decent student. I studied enough to get around a B average cumulative GPA. I didn’t take any honors or AP classes during my freshmen year but I took three honors classes during my sophomore year. It wasn’t until junior year in high school did I really suffered in school. I took all honors and AP classes during my junior year. Now looking back, I don’t think I should have…