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For most young adults, making the transition from high school to college is the toughest challenge they have yet to face. Whether it is being away from home for the first time, making new friends or facing academic challenges this transition can be extremely overwhelming. This step by step process will help students to pass their exams. There are six major steps that students should do in order to succeed in college, which include, adapting to dorm life, breaking bad high school habits, sleeping…

75 percent of college students do not seek help for mental health problems (Kerr, 2012). Suicide is the third cause of death among college and university student in our country. Student who suffer from depression are five times more likely to commit suicide. According to Anxiety Online Journal so many students are struggling with all kinds of anxiety and depression: veterans with PTDS, Separation…

Introduction College athletes refer to the individuals who represent their learning institutions, particularly colleges and universities, in competitive sports such as athletics, soccer and ball games. Often the competition college students participate in is considered as non-professional since some international institutions such as Olympics Committee and IAAF do not approve them. However, the athletes participating in the college events tend to have an equal input in the sports as the…

“By 2020,” President Barak Obama addresses, “America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world” (Kelly and Schneider 1). Today as we live in America, most people face with a college problem since after high school graduation. High school graduates consider whether go to the college or not go to the college. Likewise, Jackson, who is attending a college, has to make a decision of continuing higher education. Myself as a college student would like to more…

athletic scholarships annually to more than 150,000 student athletes (“Recruiting Fact Sheet,” 2016). Yet, sports administrators argue that paying for athlete’s college tuition simply is not enough as the athletes publicity is producing revenue for universities and the NCAA (Breslow, 2013). While controversy throughout this pivotal topic is understandable, college athletes should not receive additional financial help because education leads to money, payment plans would be a disaster, and…

Fixing the Student Debt Problem Many people dream of graduating from a good college and starting a career in a field that they both love and that will secure them a well-paying, secure job. Unfortunately, due to the rising cost of college tuition, a large amount of students are unable to pursue this dream without amassing a large amount of loans. Student debt has become almost synonymous with attaining higher education. However, student debt often has a crippling effect on people’s financial…

Professors, advisors, and administrators are the fundamentals to a university. They are the ones who will guide and help prospective and current students. The ones every student interacts with and the students get to know throughout the semester. Now, students have other options when seeking help. Peer educators are the umbrella for the smaller roles certain students have in the university. Peer mentors, advisors, and tutors are the helping roles for academic advisors and professors. They are…

Ziegler 1 Rachel Ziegler Sarah Chapman English 151-03 21 October 2016 Essay Final Draft (Problem Solving Report English 151) Louis Menand expresses his view on the importance of re-imagining liberal education, “but the only way to develop curiosity, sympathy, principle, and independence of mind is to practice being curious, sympathetic, principled, and independent” (536). Menand’s point describes an experience all students should want to gain through liberal education. Liberal education…

students who transferred to big universities came back to TCC so they would get more immersive and rich experience. As for college life, if a student makes an effort to immerse themselves in the community college environment you can have friendship that you could have never imagined in a university setting. In a time of inflated college tuition, the affordability of community college is simply . Despite the array of benefits and offerings that many universities cannot provide, community…

adequately prepared to attend university. If ineffective, however, it will decrease the proportion of college ready students. The Principal (she) of the school is responsible for choosing a grading policy: a (possibly noisy) assessment of each student’s ability. The University (he), after observing applicants’ grades, admits students who are sufficiently likely to be adequately prepared. The Principal wants to maximize the number of students who are accepted to a university. This paper seeks to…