I no longer had my mom enrolling me in school, it was all up to me. Picking classes and choosing what time I wanted to be in school was something I was definitely not used to, yet something I could get used to and like a whole lot better. The one factor of college that did kill me though was the fact that me, myself, and I were responsible for paying for everything. I never understood why everyone complained about textbooks until I took a look at the prices tags and saw ALL the books my professors required. Not only did my heart hurt, but so did my
“The admission culture of selective colleges today is characterized by a rising degree of deception and –no doubt, unintended –cruelty” (Delbanco 117). The selectivity of colleges, especially those of Ivy Leagues, can be hard to put into comparison with other colleges and universities. Ivy Leagues run on their own system, and no one can tell them how to do things because they have been established in America the longest. Colleges do not do this on purpose; it is just the way the system works. “Recruited athletes, alumni children, faculty children, members of historically underrepresented minority groups, and ‘development cases’ have an advantage, and by the time they have all been accounted for, the number of slots remaining can be extremely small compared with the ever-growing applicant pool” (Delbanco 117).
The one place where you are independent and working towards a degree to qualify for better employment. But I always wonder if my academic struggles can come back to haunt me. During my senior year in high school, I was not able to take a math class because I already had enough math credits to graduate. So throughout the year, my math skills were becoming more vague than crystal clear. On the CUNY Math Assessment Test, my results came and they were horrible.
Someday, I didn’t even wanted to go to school because my teachers used to use a strong punishment for students who come to class and they’re not prepared. The most difficult part was for me was pronunciation since my major was “English” and we usually don’t practice English in my country except for “ doctors” and “engineering” I had many words that couldn’t even read neither pronounce it. I think that our minds must be area or gap for choice about how to think in order to understand things well as Ho thoughtful about children’s mind in the article 2. Which of Ho’s ideas
* Attendance * I have to call roll for the first couple of days for administrative purposes, but I will not take formal attendance. * You’re adults and you can make your own decisions about coming to class; plus I get that things happen sometimes. * Just know that you should try to be in class as much as possible because: * You will miss notes and about 70% of the exams come from lecture * You also risk missing exercises/daily work, which cannot be made up * Blackboard * Syllabus, handouts, exam reviews, study materials, and your grades will be posted here * Note, Blackboard Grades tries to give a calculated total, but this is inaccurate because I have to drop grades * Everyone familiar with how BB works? (need to pull it up and show
Bloom out right calls out the universities for not being able to come to a consensus on what subjects should be instilled into the new in coming students. Bloom reveals how many universities are just inflating their schools with “composite courses” and no so worth while courses and options. The “composites courses” are where professors come together to form a class. With names such as “Man in Nature”, “ Culture and the Individual”, and War and Moral Responsibility”, bloom has a problem with these courses because they don't “don't not point beyond themselves and do not provide the student with independent means to pursue permanent questions like Aristotle or Kant once did”(Bloom 427). Also with the adding of courses such as “Black Studies” and “Women’s or Gender studies” and “study abroad” options.
Say Hello to my Little Study Buddy Most adults will arguably tell someone college is ‘the time of your life’ but what they forget to mention is the hardships and stresses it actually brings. There is a whole new curriculum, much harder than a high school one, and for most people their first time living on their own. One must learn more material in a shorter length of time from difficult assignments that will require a majority of one’s leisure time. The harsh reality is that students without parental supervision will unfortunately want to waste their free time doing more entertaining things than cramming their brains with gratuitous amount of new statistics, formulas and information. Students will usually opt out of performing homework
Most current college students feels as if there are way more cons of being a college student then pros simple because of the stress and length of time, it takes to complete college. Then you have those students who come and leave college, get caught up and regret they ever left. I guess college is one of those things that really depend on person, attitude, and determination. If you didn’t get anything out this paper I wanted you to get the point of not letting someone choose college for you, don’t even let college choose you, you pick up a book, computer of magazine and you choose college. Do your research and don’t become a statistic become successful and complete as many goals on the list and let that be your college, and you
Like most high school seniors, I felt I knew everything I needed to pass by life. The thought of college very rarely crossed my mind so after high school all I was thinking of was all I need to do now is find a job. I quickly found out finding a job isn’t as easy as everyone who tells you. When I did think of college, I kept telling myself “I think I should take a few years off from school to find work.” Boy was that the worse idea I ever had, and now I wish I could take it all back. Unlike most high school students I didn’t attend a normal class, I felt the teacher was going too slowly at times and there was never any stress from other Students.
I am pretty sure I failed the writing test in the seventh grade because I had to retake it and still barely passed. I never tried on any of the practice writing tests that we took and would have done better if I would have taken them more seriously. I never got any writing prompts that I enjoyed writing about, so I never tried on the prompts and disliked them a lot. In high school, teachers had me doing more with reading and writing to get ready for the tenth grade writing test. We had a couple practice writing tests and even though I tried I did not do very well on the tests.