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catalogues. Talking to people at the colleges or universities could also help incoming freshmen obtain advice. College is such a large community so if you ever need advice or motivation, and you did not want to use the sources previously listed then you could just talk to another student! It will probably benefit you better if you talked with other students, because they are experiencing some of the same things you are! Someone that works with the university could help you as well, but I think…

Remember when you were in 3rd grade taking your first assessment and every year after that until your senior year of high school when you took the college admittance exam? The first kind of assessment one might take would be Iowa Assessments then as one gets ready for college they might take the ACT or the SAT. According to “ACT College Readiness”, the ACT is a curriculum-based achievement test that measures important skills to estimate the success for the first year. On the other hand, the SAT…

students from student loan debt. (Kehm). Similar to German education, Nordic countries also provide free tuition to their locals. Except recently, Nordic countries have agreed to lower tuition rates for international students. The funding for these universities are similar to Germany; they are publicly funded. Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland receive over 90 percent of their financial aid from public funding. As stated in a current report, Nordic countries believe in…

Have you ever gone a day without much sleep and felt like you are just not quite yourself? You may feel sluggish, unmotivated, or even grumpy. A lack of sleep can totally change the way a college student acts and thinks. Sleep is like food for the brain, and without enough of it, our cognitive abilities will greatly be affected. However, with colleges, such as Western, having a class start time of 8:30am, is this problem of lacking sleep easy to solve? Students tend to live very busy lives.…

Campus Life A student’s senior year of high school seems to be the busiest ever. Senior year comes with the task of filling out hundreds of scholarship applications, applying to any and every college, while still keeping up the attendance and grades in classes. When a student finally gets accepted to the school they want to go to, it seems that there is just even more to do. When it comes to housing at college, there are many different choices. For me, living off campus wasn’t even…

When comparing two arguments, it is important to actively recognize the forms of rhetoric used in order to best understand the opposing viewpoints. Readers might think one rhetorical strategy is more effective than another. An effective use of rhetoric could benefit the author by persuading the reader to agree with the argument made. I evaluated two separate essays written on the relationship between economics and college sports. In Paul Marx’s essay, “Athlete’s New Day,” he argues the point…

When it comes to the subject of education, oftentimes many people are skeptical as to whether an institution is basically going to take their money or give them the instruction they expect. In our society today, we see that the cost of living is rising ever so slightly each and every year. With that, it costs colleges big and small far more to provide students with the educational resources that they need. These resources can consume anything from leisure activities to housing opportunities and…

College Depression The number one problem facing college students today is depression. Depression is a very serious and common illness. Student who have depression may experience feeling discouraged and helpless. This causes them to become completely detached from the world. This illness interferes with their lives, making it very difficult to complete every-day task like studying, working, sleeping and eating. This is a concerning problem because depression is the number one reason students…

interest. As the semester continued, I found myself stranded in biology classes that I had lost interest in, and I felt overwhelmed in every way as I continued to fall behind in my courses. I was ashamed; I truly believed that I was the only one in a university of 30,000 who felt as if I was going to fail. Because of this shame and embarrassment, I did not ask for the help I needed until it was too late. I stumbled across the finish line of my first semester with a 1.87 GPA and the title of…

Wendy C. Alcalá Jon Sigmon SOC 134 04/25/2016 The Good and the Bad in Sports Sports have existed for so long that it seems impossible to imagine a world without them in society. The principal purpose of sports in American society was social entertainment and a source of exercise. As time has passed they have become even more important; they now play a bigger part in society and teach different values to those that are somehow linked to them, whether it’s being a part of sports or being the…