The Biggest Components Of Nash Community College Students

Many of students today cannot identify their style of learning, whether they are attending a community college or university. At Nash Community College, students take an ACA course where they take a test to identify their best learning style. After learning the type of and amount of effort they need to be successful, students fit their other activities to have a balance in their daily schedule. One of the biggest components of school is the breaks or leisure time that students have between their classes. Activities range from cell phone usage to socializing with friends or doing homework. There are good or efficient ways to have leisure time when they are have little to none schoolwork to be done. Though students tend to take their leisure times to the extreme by having it

352). Leisure can be defined as idleness and free time that an individual can devote himself or herself from any obligations (p. 353). Recreational activities such as telling jokes, singing, and dancing all promote high fellowship and mental health benefits (p. 354). The characteristics of leisure can be defined as the bulk of time, the freedom of other activities, perceived to an end, and seen as recreational (p. 354). The students took to more passive and unorganized leisure activities, in which the males and females had positive and high attitudes towards participation and considered it leading to favorable health outcomes and socially accepted consequences (p. 354). Two scientists, Muson and Widmer in a 1997 observation, had examined the relationship between leisure behavior and identity and 109 students and noticed that the students who are more involved in intellectual leisure activities tend to be more advanced in occupational identity (pp. 355-356). Such games of chance like Scrabble and cards had experienced high popularity with the students (p.