Yale University

Paying college athletes is a very controversial topic in today’s generation. It has been an ongoing topic since the early 1900s. The idea of this dates back to what was the first collegiate competition between Harvard and Yale in a event called regatta, the racing of boats or yachts. Paying college athletes should be something that colleges take into consideration for the students that give their time to dedicate themselves to their team and coaches to be the best at the sport they play. Paying…

Sociology Makes the World Go Around In college you’re forced to make many scary, life altering decisions very quickly. You are expected to choose a major in order to get a degree. The major you choose sets the path for the rest of your academic life and affects your career options in the future. This can be a very stressful time in any college students life, this is why it’s important to choose a major that opens up many different career paths. Amongst the many majors to choose from, sociology…

College Pressures In “College Pressures”, William Zinsser talks about the college pressures that most college students face. At the time, William Zinsser was the Master of Branford College at Yale University. He says that he sees four kinds of pressure that most college students go through such as economic, parental, peer and self-induced pressure. As I read his essay, I analyzed the effectiveness of Zinsser’s observation about what pressures most college students face. Most students face…

The College Admissions Crisis Nation-wide, students suffer at the hands of the college admissions process and its scrupulous requirements. The standards by which students are allowed into college must be transformed to accommodate students of all backgrounds, not just the privileged who have the spare time to cater to the current standard. An average student in America is drowned in school assignments, studying for tests, doing extracurricular sports and joining clubs that look good on…

Is College Essential? I chose not to take the college route. After highschool i wasn't sure what i wanted to pursue as my career. Apparently, I had a knack for acting. My salary was small unlike my sister who attended college and became a doctor. It is common sense that a doctor would have a higher paying salary than a fairly new actor. Although becoming a doctor sounds much safer financially than being an actor at the end of my acting career i was earning double my sisters salary. Does this…

John Thelin, an university research professor, discusses in his journal, the reason why colleges used to cost so little years ago and why it cost so much now. He presents a major source that is composed of enrollments, institutional data on finances, and research from summary charts in Edwin Slosson 's 1910 anthology, Great American Universities. It contains statistical assemblage in categories such as "endowments, revenues, expenditures, cost per student on education and instruction, cost per…

In today's society, individuals tend to rely on the opinions of different people. In the reading, "The Order of Things," written by Malcolm Gladwell, states that there are several problems with ranking systems in today's world. Although ranking systems provide helpful lists to scan the best choices of items, these systems cannot be reliable because of biases that are extremely subjective as the result of their own purpose. Gladwell claims that nowadays, people do not actually question these…

United States and graduating from an Ivy League University (Westbrook). That makes 15 presidents who attended an Ivy League school. The Ivy League schools, most of which are older than the United States itself, have produced numerous successful and prestigious alumni since their opening; however, while the Ivy League colleges do provide prestigious degrees, they also provide colossal amounts of stress and anxiety (Torrez). Of the…

Ever wondered where your ancestors came from? What were they like? What did they become? Well for Cathy Song, her heritage was the success of her life. As a young girl, Song grew up as Chinese-Korean American and knew that she wanted to write about her family’s history. Song has taken her written career serious and tries to educate her readers with the terrible lives of arranged marriage women, through the art of poetry. Not only does she write about her family’s ancestry, but she loves to…

college. Of course, high-income students being the predominant party. Financial aid is the government’s policy to create an equal chance for students all around the world to achieve a college education whether they choose to attend a public or private university. Over the years, the decrease in the amount of financial aid given has made it impossible for some low-income students to pursue higher education. Now, students base their opinion on which college they should attend with the college that…