Worcester State College

Breann Powell is an eighteen year old female and she is currently an Occupational Therapy student at Worcester State University. For this profile she filled out a “time study” that she recorded her activities for four days, an interest check list that she labeled different activities as a casual interest, a strong interest, or no interest, and she took a life balance inventory which gives life balance scores based on what she is interested in and how often she gets to do those things. Roles and Occupations: Breann has a lot of different roles in her life. She is a student, roommate, sister, friend, coworker, resident, and daughter. Her role of student is in the context of being a freshman Occupational Therapy student at Worcester State…

and more people were able to juggle full time work, and going back to school full-time? It did not seem like there was enough hours in the day to work and go to school. I often wondered if I would be to stressful to work and go to school fulltime. A study was done from Worcester State College in Worcester, Massachusetts for enrolled students over the age of 60. When asked, “ What would you identify as three most positive aspects of going back to school?” The majority answered structure my day,…

Project Overview Our project aims at identifying an organization, understanding its current business processes and help it with innovative, reasonable and effective solutions. We further concentrated on identifying the activities where information systems can be applied and can lead to innovation. To understand practical issues deeper, we searched for an organization which could benefit from innovative IT solutions. We chose an organization which we can visit, connect and communicate with…

Technical high schools aren’t a new concept in the world of education, but they were once considered a last option school for those who couldn’t handle a “normal” education. Those who could not handle a typically high school education were sent to technical high schools where they offered trades such as cosmetology, carpentry, masonry, automotive, etc. However it is recently becoming a popular choice of high school for teenangers around the United States. As the popularity of these schools…

College is a new experience that creates great opportunity for the ambitious to construct their own manifest destiny; an independent successful life that is often dependent on the pursuit of higher education. For some, college life is jam-packed with excitement, risks and responsibilities that foster learning new things, meeting new people and making your own decisions. For others, the ability to connect socially with peers is hindered by academic pressures with unique stressors they have…

For most of my life I was raised in Alaska. Thus making it a part of who I am. Living in Alaska you learn lessons that you wouldn 't learn growing up in other states. You learn what it means to live in nature, when you have moose walking through your yard, and….. Growing up I had a great childhood I get to experience things most kids don’t ever get to experience, like playing outside when it 's snowing and -10 degrees outside or seeing the sun at midnight in the summer. Alaska is an amazing…

The Day I Choose LCC Have you ever thought about what college you would attend and how successful you would be? Well I have, as child I would imagine what college I would attend and would I be able to succeed. I imagined how collage would be, would I attended a large university or a small local community college. Students may even worry about the ACT and SAT and how successful will they be when taking those two extremely important tests. Luckily, I choose a school that didn 't stress me out…

children to work hard, do well, and earn a college degree, then they will get a job. Many would argue that this philosophy helped the older generation be successful in their educational and post-educational careers, so it should not be changed; however, in the words of Ken Burns, “the problem is that the current system of education was designed…

By reason of Gear Up IV, I have had the pleasure of meeting with business school recruiters from Texas A & M University as well as visiting potential schools all across the state and learning about high demand fields of study. Right before the Gear Up program was introduced, I had a fair idea of what I was intending to study, but I remained unsure and had made no further necessary decisions about my post-secondary education. The reason I had not even thought about what university I wanted to go…

Many say that American high schools teach students to learn how to take standardized tests on writing, rather than actually prepare them for college. Therefore, most secondary students are entering college without an understanding of how to meet demands of college writing beyond the prescribed “standard five-paragraph essay.” Susan Fanetti’s “Closing the Gap between High School Writing Instruction and College Writing Expectations” examines the discrepancy between American high schools and their…