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It is also important when picking a roommate in that knowing your roommate prior to rooming with them versus not knowing them can have immense effects. “Although it’s tempting to room with your best friend from high school, that friend might not make the best roommate. In fact, many students lose friends by rooming with them. Many students end up developing a lasting relationship with someone who at first was a total stranger” (Gardner and Barefoot 229). The article…

Being a college student is not an easy task. Balancing finals with work, friends, and other activities may seem to be impossible. People are paying thousands and thousands of dollars to attend a school where they plan on getting a high quality education and a good paying job once they graduate. Now, imagine doing all of those plus a sport. Imagine competing at a higher level than they have ever competed at, while under the pressure to succeed. Imagine the amount of stress they will compile over…

faculty and students from the School of Translation Studies, I’d like to extend a warm welcome to all new faces here. Now please allow me to share with you the expectation from the school faculty for all freshmen. My first point is about the genuine purpose of education in university. What’s the definition of uni? Our schoolmaster Mr. 戚万学 had talked about his own understanding of university in this year’s welcoming ceremony speech. He said, the word university is formed by 2 characters in…

Mapping once was the guidelines to just about each and everything in destination making upon the thought of traveling. One could consider have postal mail delivered by someone whom has bought the mailed item and /or items to the receiver by way of horseback, as well as had to have their journey planned by some sought of guided route, that reference mapping by directional route to complete their delivery to the intended person and/or persons. Today devices could precisely place you there before…

These authors composed a study that gave an in depth look into factors such as volunteer setting, motives for volunteering, and factors related to current volunteering and how these specific factors relate to college students volunteering. Volunteering can be considered a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking or a person who performs a service willingly and without pay. Furthermore, in addition to this study providing an in depth view into what factors…

should partake of it. This paper will show why college athletes should remain unpaid while still playing sports at the collegiate level. The amounts of money athletics bring to their universities and the NCAA is unreal. The…

Price Given the intangibility of education services it is important for Victoria University to maximise their perceived value. The price of fees, cost of living and the ability to offset costs through part time work are the main price considerations before students decide to study abroad. The research included in this report on Thailand shows there were over 24,000 Thai students who studied overseas in 2012 and only 2% studied in New Zealand. Also the fact that only 0.5% of total Thai students…

With coaches making upwards of $7 million dollars a year and television ratings for its game coverage skyrocketing, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has had its fair share of good times in the 21st century. The association has also had its worst times as well, “the NCAA has never been more vulnerable and on the defensive with regards to it policies and practices, especially its reliance on the age-old characterization of college athletes as “amateurs” who are first and…

Being a senior last year, I had to start thinking about where I wanted to go to college. When looking into colleges I also had to look into the tuition prices because I knew that I did not have the funds to pay for college on my own. With going into my fall semester at GGC I only had the money that FASFA had granted be to pay for college and I had not started working yet. Since I did not have money saved up I did not take as many classes as I wanted to. My mom’s friend told me about how her son…

College retention is a major issue for students, universities and society in general. The problem has existed for years and is still a topic for many to research and understand. It is in the best interest of all three parties to reduce the dropout rate. Factors to be dissected are lack of money, being academically unprepared, and the metamorphic life changes encountered by freshman which are stressful. For those unable to obtain academic or athletic scholarships, government funding such as…