Crying through College College years are considered that time of a student’s life that allows them to find themselves, their significant other, or even just a member for their future wedding party. Nevertheless, as generations have progressed, the average student rarely shares this sentiment about college. Lisa Heffernan, the writer of “Survey: Most Freshmen Are Not Emotionally Prepared for College,” brings to attention one of the major reasons college students are having a difficult time getting this experience while in college: they simply are not emotionally ready. Heffernan successfully develops this article by giving convincing facts, statistics, and statements from several creditable sources, ending with appealing to the sentiments of…
College Students College is a time and a place for young adults to come into form of who they are. In the quest of gaining higher knowledge college students may not be so naïve to what they hear and what they learn. College represents a major developmental transition, which may be a time of personal growth as well as stress (Turner-Musa & Wilson , 2006). African-american college student. The number of African American students attending higher education in the U.S increased from 9% to 14% from 1978 to 2009 (U.S Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics , 2010).…
Does Coming to College Mean Becoming Someone New? Whether one is just getting out of high school or going back to school, entering the college community is a foreign experience that brings forth a lot of questions on what it will be like. All students attending college for the first time have hopes of getting an education and a degree in the desired field of study.…
As a result, although the initial signal is important only for a brief period of time, it still may have long-lasting consequences. Nevertheless, there are also many nonpecuniary benefits that graduates can take from college. A strict controlling research, which has different measures of family background and income, provides suggests people who have taken college are more likely to have a greater sense of accomplishment, more social interactions, better health outcomes, and being more independence and opportunities for creativity. All these benefits have the power to affect individuals in a more profound way over their…
As summer started to end I was asked frequently: “Are you ready for college?” During my break I could not get over the fact that I have just graduated high school and now I am off to Cal State San Marcos. Summer seemed like a flash and college was creeping behind my shoulders. During the last miserable two weeks all I could imagine was that my hope and dreams were going to be trampled by my fears. When I applied to San Marcos I was full of optimism, not knowing that college would be harder than expected.…
In “Why College Freshmen Need to Take Emotions 101,” Diana Divecha and Robin Stern describes that the transition to college can be very difficult and nerve-wracking for incoming college students. Most first-year students are trying to adjust to the new academic rigors that exceeds high school expectation. In college, the students are overwhelmed because these academic rigors are extremely challenging and difficult. To resolve this discrepancy, colleges have implemented college systems for students to achieve a higher and healthy education. However, this does not compensate for those who are impacted with unresolved personal issues that are left back home.…
College is the best four years of your life, they say. As I entered my freshman year of college, it was filled with a variety of emotions and uncertainty. Moving 6 hours away from my hometown, in a completely unknown environment, and not knowing a single sole was the hardest thing i’ve ever gone through. The first weeks of college was a culture shock to say the least. I was exposed to so much more then I thought I would.…
The author of the book My Freshman Year enrolled herself as a student at a college university for the purpose of educating herself about life at college. She discovered that there was more to being a college student than what it seemed. Her experiences after a full year as a college student changed her thoughts and behavior towards other students. After a view changing insight to college life, she wrote a book to inform students, parents, and teachers that it is important to open their minds to reach a full understanding as to why people may act the way they do.…
It’s easy to be burnt out by the beginning of senior year. After three full years of giving 100 percent of everything I am, I’m ready for a break. However, senior year is only the end of the beginning. When I take off my blinders, I see a world full of opportunity and choices waiting outside of my high school’s walls. I, along with my other classmates, am overwhelmed with new choices and obligations.…
Transitioning from a high school student from a small town, to a college campus where the students body is almost as large as my town population is quite terrifying. Im use to my 1,500 classmates, all of us attempting to squeeze down the same stairway, trying to find the time to do Art Club, student council, band (marching and concert), Mathletes, quizbowl, keeping up with homework, and working is a difficult process. It’s senior year now, and half of these activities will be long gone as I trudge along applying to college and keeping my GPA to my standards.. We don’t have mommy and daddy to help us through our problems, holding our hands through the dark. Our decisions we make from here on out are all on us.…
College is a time of new experiences filled with new interests, new relationships, and many emotions. There have been theories made by several researchers that explain what college students go through and how they are affected by the sudden, exciting and [something] new environment that is college. It is a time of independence, but also of so much more. Arthur W. Chickering is one of these researchers that came up with a theory about the development that college students go through. This is called Chickering’s Seven Vectors of College Student Development, and I will discuss how the collegiate experience of Bryce Tham, a junior here at the University of California, Irvine, applies to this theory, as well as how his experiences will affect what…
Going to college had been a goal of mine for as long as I can remember. Coming in I expected many things from longs lectures, ridiculous amounts of homework, excessive essays and huge classes, but to my surprise the whole atmosphere is very similar to high school. As a result, the transition has been very smooth so far. How have I been able to make these adjustments you say? Well let’s find out!…
Tap, tap, tap. My fingers are tapping on the desk as I sit at my home computer. It is the fall of 2011, and I have to decide what major to select on the Common Application. Like many times before, my mother asks me, “What is your passion? You should major in what you are passionate about.”…
My first semester of college has been an intersting learning experience. It has been full of ups and downs. I’ve learned a lot since being in college, mostly how to take charge of my life and get my priorities straight. I learned that being successful in college depends on how you prioritize your work and how serious you take it. At first my priorities weren 't where they were supposed to be, and I realized my grades were going to suffer if I did not change.…
This semester has been a very difficult, stressful, and challenging for me . High School can not compare the amount of stress I had to face in this fall semester at Hostos Community College. However, it is like that with many other students because making a transition is frightening and many of us find a way to run away from it. Everything in life is a challenge and it is scary as well, but for those who want to study it all starts of with college. It took me more than words to actually realize the reality that I am actually living right at this very moment because, I was not expecting so many things to fall apart, but somehow becoming whole again.…