Binge drinking is a major issue that a lot of college students are facing today. According to NIAAA‚ in order for something to be considered binge drinking the blood alcohol concentration has to be .08 grams percent or above. Usually‚ for most college students‚ this means consuming five or more drinks in 2 hours. The rate is extremely high among college students and according to NIAAA reports‚ two out of every five students of all ages‚ which is more than 40 percent have reported in binge drinking
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the American College Health Association’s most recent annual survey‚ 30 percent of college students felt so depressed that it was difficult for them to function (Lieblich10). Depression and anxiety is a major issue for college students and while there are many causes of the mental health crisis and I have found the lack of administration in colleges and the dramatic transition from high school to college to have a great effect on the health of college students. In solving the college mental health
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college’s student body is a huge priority. Social media is an enormous part of modern-day technology used everyday by millions‚ including the majority of high school students. Since many large social media sites have hundreds of millions of users‚ most of whom are young adults or teenagers‚ these sites are an excellent way for organizations to appeal to the youth of this generation. Colleges should be allowed to use social media and take advantage of its various academic benefits. Some colleges are already
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M. Rowe Professor Bowl CMAT-61 December 6‚ 2011 How to Deal With Stress as a College Student How does stress affect you? We have all felt this feeling before. Your stomach is twisted‚ your muscles are tightened‚ you feel down and out‚ unhappy and‚ you cannot think straight. According to The American Institute of Stress‚ stress is defined as physical‚ mental and emotional strain. 43% of all adults suffer adverse health effects due to stress. 75-90% of all visits to the primary care
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Abstract Like many visually impaired individuals in other countries‚ blind persons here in the Philippines are not denied with the opportunity to pursue higher education. However‚ there are several things that university administrators‚ faculty members‚ and staff are not aware of with regards to how to deal with the situation. This paper aims to give information on how to handle a blind student. Being a blind person myself‚ I want to tell people that a college student with visual impairment
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Jeremy Johnson McMullen Thesis 10/17/13 NCAA vs. Student Athletes: A change to come Here we go again; a stand-out high school athletic star has a choice that will determine the rest of his life. This is what happened to Koby Clemens son of baseball star pitcher Roger Clemens. He intended to play baseball on full scholarship at the University of Texas a NCAA college baseball power house. After graduating high school he was drafted into the MLB‚ an eighth round pick by the team his
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the major six categories of a healthy life-style. If you master all four which include: Emotional‚ social‚ spiritual‚ and mental health. What I wanted was to develop a relationship with my father and to better my self as a Young man. ‚ In order to do that I had to stay optimistic and try new things and also sacrifice the bad such as not having a great but respectful relationship with my step father and becoming a master in all four elements of the Psychosocial dimension. Growing up as a
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The Importance of a College Education You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give" (Winston Churchill‚ circa 1940) Learning the importance of getting a good college education did not come to me until I was 31 years old. Many of my friends‚ and colleagues and I were of the same age‚ however they were far beyond me in educational levels. It was for this reason‚ and other reasons‚ including better society levels‚ and the ability to achieve my career goals‚ that I decided
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College Ripoff Ed O’Bannon‚ who played basketball at UCLA from 1991-1995‚ recently won a major victory for thousands of college athletes throughout America. He sued the NCAA and EA sports for using his likeness in video games. He went unpaid‚ although he helped make companies like EA sports and the NCAA lots of money‚ because he was a college athlete‚ and it is against NCAA policy to receive any money for your likeness or your popularity. The supreme court ruled that any player in an EA sport video
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and enjoying their childhood stage. After that the students enter on the adulthood stage or the high school level in the school. At this stage the students must listen only to their friends and not to their parents or guardian. That’s why many students are entering to drug addiction‚ alcohol‚ smoking and the early pregnancy stage. So they have the lesson to learn through their experience and through others (vicarious learning). After the students were graduated in the high school level they are now
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