Without these skills, students can become overwhelmed and retain poor grades in their classes. Students also get caught up in the social life on campus and being to focus on how their peers see them as opposed to making sure they have sufficient grades to pass their class. Not to mention that strong peer pressure that occurs on campus for students to try drugs and alcohol. Involving in such activities will affect a student’s work, if they can not balance their time and become too involved in malicious activity. All in all, students become too comfortable with the freedom they have on campus and don’t focus energy into school work.
As well as “The making new friends” challenge. I mean why bother making new friends if you are going to lose them each year? But in the other hand, you should expect (and accept) the diversity of people. What to expect from college is not really something to specific. For example, many of us weren’t really use to studying during high school, mainly because it was so unchallenging.
Murray believes that some people should not even go to college. People, in a sense, get pressured by either family or friends to go to college. In turn, some of these people should not be in college wasting space of someone who could potentially have taken their spot. Murray sees the liberal arts education as simply learning the basics of the work force. He shows that if you have not learned the typical basics in high school, you should not be trying to go to
I agree with what Graff says and also agree when he says, “The challenge, as a college professor Ned Laff has put it, “is not simply to exploit students’ nonacademic interests, but to get them to see those interests through academic eyes” (p.302). I strongly believe this is true, I wish teachers would really take this into consideration. The author also reminds us of his own adolescent experience. Graff was anit-intellectual as a young student until he entered college. Graff disliked books very much and only cared for sports.
I also believe this may be an issue of why students may not want to live on campus or even attend college because of the fear they face as they travel on campus. While researching this topic I found an article that may be helpful to students in case of an sexual assault. In the scholarly article, "Administrators' Perceptions of College Campus Protocols, Response, and Student Prevention Efforts for Sexual Assault", by Angela F. Amar, Tania D. Strout, Somatra Simpson, Maria Cardiello and Sania Beckford; show the way people who do and do not come forward about their sexual assault experiences deal with it in the real world. By sampling over 1000 campus administrators they thought of a way to come up with sexual assault policies and procedures for students who may experience this devastating trauma. Many students experience sexual assault while living on a campus institution.
A large concern to some students may have when considering attending college online is the fact that it may be harder to get personal help and learn the material through your professor. Without having any physical interaction with your professor, some hands on learners may struggle more than the students who learn well from reading the material on their own. The professor in online schools can still be very helpful; the students just have to take the initiative to ask for help when they need it. When attending a college on campus, some universities require their students to attend all classes, while others leave it as an option. It is
Bugeja states how it’s affecting college students, but doesn’t get into how it’s also affecting people in everyday life in general, such as being in the workplace or even being in a vehicle. Bugeja does a great job sharing his views about technology and how it’s affecting college students during school, but leaves out the matter of how it does affect the true world as a whole. Schools are using more technology to better education, but they have failed to realize that the younger generation’s views on technology are more of a means of delivering entertainment and secondarily as a means of
This can be very daunting, for very few have actually taken steps to ensure that they will become successful during their trials and tribulations of student life. So how could a student take a personal outlook on college success and make it so that they take responsibility for it? There are many steps that could be taken, but through personal involvement with school, this writer feels as though that there are three key elements to student success. If a student were to take a personal responsibility to prepare, evaluate, and plan their college requirements, they can guarantee his or her success while pursuing their education. Preparing for success in school might seem like an easy enough task, but when the responsibility finally falls on the student, he or she is often caught off guard.
Differences and similarities between levels High School and college are alike in numerous ways, but they are also very different. They are both educational institutions which help people achieve greater intelligence but different in certain factors. High school is mandatory and free if you attend a public school, otherwise it will cost you while college is both voluntary and expensive. In high school, students are guided for responsibilities they have and students are corrected if they are out of line. Freedom is the main difference between high school and college but, classes, teachers, social aspects and costs are the major ways that college differs from high school.
College students are also dealing with peer pressure and this is another reason why they drop out. This is the influence exerted by a peer group encouraging individuals to change their attitudes or behavior to conform to group norms. It’s only human nature to listen to and learn from other