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Success is defined as the attainment of popularity or profit. But how do you measure this “popularity” or “profit”? The reality is that you can’t measure success. It is merely a never-ending mirage that we Millennials are mistakenly chasing in order to fill the cracks and holes that make up our personality. We are choosing majors and jobs based on the income and social status rather than ones that we possess the passion and devotion for. In a recent nationwide study, a mere 36% of high school…

The education I am being provided by The Ohio State University is the biggest step I have taken thus far toward my career goal of achieving a Doctorate of Physical Therapy. I have only ever dreamed of being in a professional field in which helping others is the focus of my day. In particular, my experiences in life have all pushed me toward a field of health. What has drawn me toward the pursuit of physical therapy specifically has been the two times in my life where this sort of rehab was…

College students need to feel supported by family, friends, and especially faculty. Support is important not only for lecture faculty, but clinical faculty as well. Lack of adequate support for faculty members can be perceived as discrimination by the student. The feeling of discrimination was reported in several studies as a barrier to success for minority nursing students. For example, a study by Sedgwick, Oosterbroek and Ponomar (2014) involved interviewing 41 minority students about…

In the article, “How Much is A Degree Worth to College Athletes? Not Much, Kevin Trahan quotes from a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette study, “a large number of football players at the University of Pittsburgh, which was not a Top 25 school but was included in the study for its geographic proximity, are enrolled in the administration of justice major. At Oregon, football players are bunched in a social science major, while there is a large…

important thing. In my eyes, success in college is most important. What does success in college mean to me? Success in college means to me the ability to be able carry myself through this world with skills and knowledge that I learned here at the University of Akron. I am putting thousands of dollars or more in my schooling to benefit my future, but I mostly aim to be capable of making it through adulthood without having to depend on my parents for financial help. Success cannot be taught to…

2.3 STUDIES UNDERTAKEN TO DETERMINE THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE EMOTION WORK (DEMOGRPAHIC, PERSONALITY AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE) AS early as the beginning of the nineteenth century, researchers such as Larsen & Ketelaar (1991) experimentally attempted to induce positive mood. In a group of three hundred and fifty nine undergraduate students and found a stronger positive mood effect among extraverts than in introverts. Shortly afterwards, Ashforth and Humphrey (1993) in an article argued that…

In a discussion about the paradigms of public education, Ken Burns addresses the controversial topic of cultural education. Public education is experiencing a time of confusion in helping children develop cultural identity so the new generation can continue to play an important role in globalization. This confusion causes an immediate reaction: continue to do what has been done in the past--instruct children to work hard, do well, and earn a college degree, then they will get a job. Many…

observed many children who have dropped out of college because they were not ready for the freedom of being on their own. I remember my next door neighbor only let her son attend a local community college. The other children attended colleges and universities far away from home, but he went to school nearby. The reason behind that is because his mom wanted to make sure her child was prepared for college mentally. She didn’t want her son to drop out because of parties, and not keeping up…

According to E. Allen and J. Seaman (2013) in 2013, 32 percent of college/university students were participating in one or more online courses. In an article “Revolution hits the universities” by T. Friedman (2013), he explains how MOOCs will revolutionize the method of education in the next few years. This will create an easy access/low cost method of delivering education to students around the world. With some of the best universities already offering courses thru this platform, soon we…

The Desire for “More” Derives from School In every classroom, there are an abundance of different students that attend school for several reasons. Some of those reasons may be to graduate and venture to college, to play sports in college, to get a brighter education, or just to receive their diploma at the end of one’s twelve year-period of struggle and chaos. Each person has a goal that is different than another’s, but there are some students who struggle with the question of why to stay in…