University-preparatory school

Every student has barriers and challenges that they must overcome to succeed in college. As a first time college student, it's important for me to recognize and identify the barriers early in my college career to ensure my success! My main two barriers is time management and lack of money. These are significant barriers because not knowing how to manage time will cause me to be behind in most of my college courses. Without money, I won't have the capacity to pay for college expenses that should…

even financial health. Staples believes that the practice of using minimum test scores to determine financial aid should end. He then gives an example by using the National Merit Scholarship Program and quoting a former associate president at the University of California who called it bogus. Staples explains that the “sought-after” students from this program usually do nothing to stand out and are…

to increase by an astounding 45% (Moreno, & Banuelos, 2013). While the primary objective of attending university for many Latino families is perceived as simply receiving a college degree that will enable them to get greater earning power, there is also a degree to which the student must integrate to the university in order to successfully complete the process leading to graduation. Most university mission statements promise the student not only basic skills and training, but preparations that…

Plagiarism is common phenomenon of academic cheating among students. In recent years, plagiarism is becoming more and more serious problem. Whether in life or in school. The students, the teachers, and the creators have had a great deal of trouble. So institutions have to check the students' papers and books, materials or other paper anti plagiarism software, once reached more than a definition of similarity ratio, it will be regarded as plagiarism. ( Britain's "Daily Telegraph" ) . So it is…

1. Undergraduate Research: I was an undergraduate research assistant in different labs, including biomedical engineering and Traditional Chinese Medicine pharmacology. In Dr. Junping Kou's lab, my teammate and I finished two research projects, my contribution to these projects including acquiring the funding, creating the mouse model of acute hypoxia-induced organs injury and ischemia-reperfusion injury, performing Western Blotting to measure protein expression level, providing evidence for the…

For the past week I have been researching on the topic on whether our department should sponsor an undergraduate Economics major at the California Institution for Women in Chino, as part of a larger UCLA prison education program. Through this memo I want to summarize my research and offer some recommendations to the department. Recently, the Education Department has been trying to lift a ban that was executed in 1994, a ban to limit education access to people in the prison. An experimental…

A student loan is money that is borrowed to pay for college or educational expenses. Although it may seem like taking out a student loan is your only option, I implore you to not choose it. If you commit to a student loan, you are instantly putting yourself in debt and subjecting your newfound independent life to a bad start. Also, by digging that hole of debt and placing yourself in it, you are narrowing down the things you do in the future, especially when it comes to choosing your career. No…

is converted into a debit card that can be used to purchase goods and service at various university-affiliated stores on campus and off campus. In a prior study is shown that 42% of the surveyed students used their student identification card to purchase cigarettes. This founding had lead campuses and student identification cards to develop polices about tobacco and e-cigarettes at major American Universities (Boyers & Karimkhani & Riggs & Dellavalle, 2015). The World Health Organization…

During my third week of interning, I got to experience some more data entry using Excel and the APEX database. I continued to learn more about these programs and update them frequently. I resumed researching previous KCOM graduates and finding their current place of employment. I then worked through the online CST modules for training and drove to St. Louis with Jessica. On Wednesday, we attended the 29th Annual SLU Geriatric Institute: CST session. This conference was very interesting and I…

Blog 1: Blurred Lines Between “Right” and “Wrong” Because our physics class has a relatively small population of forty students, it is easy to see what everyone is doing during lecture. During the first few days of lecture, the class could easily be divided into two groups: students who actually listened to the professor’s lecture and those who didn’t. But after the first week of lecture passed, most, if not all, students found the professor difficult to follow and naturally became bored or…