In the 21st century, many high school students don’t obtain higher education, because they question themselves on the benefits and time consuming of getting higher education. Important questions like: “Why should I go to college? Will be waste of my time and investment? Students are thinking in ways that discourage them from choosing to go to college leading them to ignore the importance of education. College allows students to explore different perspective such as to exploring academia, different career choices, experience, building skills, exploring different jobs, but most of all it is a self-exploration.…
Going to college is an experience that will help you shape your personality and build a better future for yourself. It is import...…
Dr. Michael V. Miranda article, “The Seven Beliefs: Addressing The Psychosocial Underpreparedness Of The Community College Students,” states many students are miseducated when it come to college they come in with a made up mind of how it going to be, but soon find out they were misinformed. Many students are unprepared when entering college. The Professor plays a major role in a student education. The seven false belief is set up for the student to fail. From grammar to high school student are misguided a professor we should take on the responsible to make correction so many students can succeed. Therefore, the false beliefs were learned and reinforced throughout the early stage experiences of the students who entering colleges. These beliefs…
In Colleges Prepare People for Life by Charles Murray, it is argued that college prepares people for a job after graduation, but above a career, it prepares people to achieve a successful life. An excellent, satisfying job is only the beginning of the benefits that college may offer. Individuals because of college are faced with countless possibilities compared to those who never attend.…
College readiness is not determined by a set of skills; rather it is determined by how academically involved a student wants to be in his/her education. He states that, “students who are ready for college like to read. If you don’t like to read, you are going to find college very difficult” (pp. 1). In my experience, by coming to college and wanting to be more involved in my education, I realized that college is actually simple and that my increased involvement also has been leading me to be college ready and successful. In college I wanted to be more academically involved and by doing so I realized how I became more organized, gained a habit of completing many assignments before due dates, and could notice how my grades were very much improved. In addition, the author states, “If you don’t love to read you will probably be confused and frustrated while at college” (pp. 2). In my first week of college my reading assignments consisted of hundreds of pages that had to be read in the same week. Even when reading without the love to do so, the assignments never created any irritation. Never in my life have I enjoyed reading, or have understood how someone enjoys reading. Nonetheless, I have completed every assignment because of how it would be a significant factor in my…
* Filtering: You take the negative details and magnify them while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation.…
Community college, The worst fear for some and the best experience for others. Many people think that community college is a bad place to attend. They think they might not be good enough to be in a 4 year university. They seem to take that negativity throughout, their whole college experience. In the article, The Seven False Beliefs: Addressing the psychosocial Underpreparedness of the community College Student by Miranda, It stated that many community college students don’t start with the greatest attitude and their beliefs can also have a negative impact on them. The student already have a lot going on for example, work, financial aid, social life. All of this is a lot to handle for one person and sometimes that can create a big stress.…
What other people don’t tell them is that college is to help build people that can better the community and the world. McCreery writes about how college’s true purpose is to build people that have the education that allows them to survive in the world and be able to think things you that others didn’t not just to make you a big paycheck. The way College does this is by providing students with classes that can help them grow as a human and be the best they can be. A great example of this is when I took a liberal arts class this class helped me learn how I learn and how other people learn so wat I learned is that i learn the best when I write things down but it also thought me that people learn differently some people learn better by seeing things or hearing what they need to learn and other learns by touching and feeling things to remember it and learn…
There are so many students attending college who simply do not belong there. Most people think they will not get anywhere if they do not attend a college, or have some type of educational background. In the article, “Is College for Everyone,” Pharinet who is a college professor state that having your education is important and everyone has the right to attended college. He explains everyone does not have to go to college to get a well paying job, and some students simply is not ready for the academic and ressonsibility challenges of college.…
Students around the country are not being prepared for college. They enter college not fully aware they weren’t prepared for the intensity of college level work. Many students have to take remedial classes due to their high school classes not having them ready for the next level. Another reason students aren’t prepared is they haven’t taken the required amount of classes needed for college, some high schools require less of the core classes than most colleges require. Schools also forgetting colleges want independent thinkers. The main focus in high schools is the admission process and the development of students’ thinking abilities are forgotten about. The schools doing well in preparing their students, encourage the students to take college…
John Leo fills his article with statics and quotes from professors and teachers complaining about the lack of will power student have. “ The real problem is students who won’t study,’’ wrote a Penn rSate Professor in the article. Leo also stated” disengaged rudeness” was the common attitude.” Leo’s article slams today’s college students on many levels. Leo’s article uses terms such as, disengaged, ignorant, and “inarticulate” to describe college students in today’s society.…
When an average high schooler walks into senior year, the students are quickly bombarded by school counselors discussing which four year college they should apply too. At my high school, it was never second guessed whether the student would be attending college but was assumed. Most people have misconceptions that if they do not get a degree, they will unable to obtain a job and have an overall unsuccessful life. In Charles Murray’s, “Are Too Many People Going to College” and Freeman Hrabowski’s “College Prepares People for Life”, the two author both discuss the education system we have in place, however, Charles Murray provides a more convincing argument that college, contrary to popular belief, is just not for everyone.…
Many students go to college with the sole intention to get their degree, become employed, and earn a higher salary. Students with these intentions tend to struggle more throughout their college years. Students go to college because they obtain skills and characteristics that employers find desirable. These skills and characteristics also allow them to function in society. Making the leap from high school classrooms to college campuses can be difficult for many students simply because college professors expect so much more inside and outside of the classroom. Students who go to college are expected to be self-sufficient from the day they get there. At the collegiate level, students should come to class ready to participate, engage in the course…
Every year a class of high school seniors graduate and then begin their lives as adults. While the choices they made in high school are important, the choices they make after this will be of the utmost importance. A decision of how to start their lives as adults either joining the workforce, the armed forces, or attending college are the choices they have to make. A lot goes into which direction the student will steer his or her life. Pressures of going to college come from not only school teachers, but family, friends, and peers also. Teachers tell their students that college is the best way to go if they want to succeed in life, as many careers require further education beyond that of a high school diploma. Parents are always glad to see…
All too often people treat community college students are inferior to students of large universities, even believing that community college students are expected to be less successful. Doing this lowers students’ morale and makes them feel they are unworthy of obtaining gainful employment or even raising their own standards. Though this lowers morale, having a hard life absolutely is no excuse for having excessive absences, rewrites, late papers, plagiarized work, or instructors with low standards who do not require the students to adjust as needed to succeed.…