Ignorance! This world that we live in is aberrant. It is indisposed. It is incongruous and ironically it’s created by our own acts. We as children, are preached with several sets of principles and ethics that we are expected to follow. I suppose those were derived to create the ideal individual out of each one of us. But, we still have a huge diversity of unhealthy practices by individuals from amongst us. That includes everyone, even me. So, is it the fault in the methods of delivery of those moral values or, is it our escape into the adaptations of ignorance? The dawn of college life marks the advent of an era of circumscribed development of an individual with a partial shade of parental assistance. This exposure brings out the real persona out of each one of us with the friends, the society and the nation at large. Often it exposes the unpleasant sides of many of us. It was the first year of my college and I had just stepped into a completely new dimension of life. In my opinion, engineering is the only field of academics where one is interested in doing everything else but, engineering. So I wondered how things worked around me, how girls smiled, how boys cried and the rest of the stuff. One thing that I particularly noticed was the overflowing …show more content…
To my surprise, almost all of them denied with points as vague as ‘who would travel half the city and donate blood for no benefits?’ Many of them teased it saying they required a couple of packets for themselves rather than donating. This was a real question mark, right on my face. Most of those who I approached, were volunteers or coordinators for such clubs/societies which organised blood donation camps or related events, pledged on platforms to serve the society before self and all the blabbering they could do. But at that time, no one even bothered to know the status of a patient of similar age, struggling for
As stated before, Miller was once a project director for the Pew-sponsored National Forum on college level learning from 2002-2004, and a Curry School of Education professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She has experience in this area, as well as research from which conducted for a national education forum. In this work, Miller provides outside sources to represent families who do not have parents who attended college to compare to her own experiences, as well as the data she provides. Miller also uses: charts produced by Tom Mortenson, data released by Educational Testing Service (ETS), and National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), all credible sources. This essay appeals strongly to ethos.
The reality of college life Numerous individuals perceive college as being one big party however, that allegation is unrealistic. Preconceived notions of how college really works, ultimately ruins the actuality of college life. A way people get a vision of college life is through watching movies and television. For instance, Lisa Mauro in “Hollywood’s Depiction of College Students: Fantasy or Reality” states “We are portrayed inaccurately and this portrayal is being shown so often that it becomes a stereotype” because the public listens to anything Hollywood entertainment presents to them. Students are recognized as individuals who party all the time, consume an abundant amount of alcohol, apathetic, and have lack of knowledge characterizing
The milieu of education has a history of creating hurdles. Education, if it were a live being, would be on life support having last rights preformed on it. Its past should have been a track record leading us into the future, not for man. A very brief look at two Essays from 1940 to present will show how the only thing we can count on in getting an education, will be ourselves. The Blair Reader 8th Edition gives us two essay’s that will establish evidence to show mans' in contempt for creating problems for education.
1a:“College is a singular opportunity to rummage through and luxuriate in ideas, to give your brain a vigorous workout and your soul a thorough investigation, to realize how very large the world is and to contemplate your desired place in it. And that’s being lost in the admissions mania, which sends the message that college is a sanctum to be breached — a border to be crossed — rather than a land to be inhabited and tilled for all that it’s worth. ”(Bruni 10) 1b: This passage, which is included in the final pages of Bruni’s introduction, helps define both his thoughts on the purpose of college and, at the same time, why he believes the rapidly increasing focus on college admissions is a problem.
The Greek Philosopher Aristotle identified “The years between puberty and age twenty-one as the formative time for mind and character.” It was customary for young Greek men to attend a series of lectures that resembled our notion of a college “course”(Delbanco 36). Aristotle is a believer of education and the power it has on the development of the young mind. Likewise, he believes college is a place to establish one’s character. Caroline Bird’s essay, “Where College Fails Us,” definitely does not correlate with the opinion of Aristotle.
As I look back on my journey to college, I faced many different problems and disadvantages even before taking my first steps on campus. In Linda Banks-Santilli’s “Guilt is one of the biggest struggles first-generation college students face” many first generation students view being the first one in the family as a major flaw before entering college (Banks-Santilli, 2015, Par. 4 &7). The lack of self-respect makes it difficult for students to achieve success without help or motivation. The students have to change their viewpoint about being the first to go to college in their family as a weakness and make it a strength to help motivate them to be better students.
Throughout the essay, Charles Murray stresses the idea that college is the wonderland of finding oneself and to find the career that one would want to follow for the rest of their lives. “College is seen as the open sesame to a good job and a desirable way for adolescents to transition to adulthood. Neither reason is as persuasive as it first appears.” Murray, C (2008) Practically spoken, this is not normally the case. College is a fair amount of work, much more work than one would normally acquire through any course of a high school or secondary school setting.
College is one of the most significant times in a person’s life. Every year high school kids will visit many different colleges so that they can be confident in their college decision. Some kids will follow in their parent’s foot steps and base their decision on where their mom or dad went, though, not all kids are fortunate to have help from their parents. Many kids nowadays may be the first in their family to take on higher education. The article, “First Generation College Students: Unprepared and Behind” by Liz Riggs explains that kids who are the first in their family to take on college are at a disadvantage compared to kids with parents who attended college.
In the story “College Pressures” written by William Zinsser, is about all the pressure, changes, and the feeling that come with college. In the story Zinsser, talks about how things that used to not be as important are some of the most important thing now, such as a transcript can make or break you when you are going up against a different students. Zinsser also talks about how people think that colleges act like villains with all of the prices and all of the things they make you buy, but really they are not villains in this equation, we are all just victims. Zinsser also captors all the pressures you put on yourself including peers, financial, and parents. He talks about how we can let our peers get to us, so we work too hard and forget
In “College Pressures” by William Zinsser, leader of one of the residential colleges at Yale University, the author describes the different amount of pressures that students struggle with in college. Because of his position at the university, he constantly noticed the students around him and the anxiety that was radiating off them. He believes that economic pressures cause students to feel anxious about paying back student loans after college. However, parental pressure leads students to make decisions that their parents would be happy with because of the feeling of guilt and wanting to please them.
How can America truly understanding the worth of Black lives if we ourselves don 't fully know our own worth? I ask this question because the students in the Whitehaven High School community has see that America has forgotten all of the contributions that Black live brought to the table by inventors such as : Elijah McCoy is best known for inventing lubrication devices used to make train travel more efficient, poets like as Paul Laurence Dunbar who is most famous for his poem We Wear the Mask ,and military soldiers like the United States ' first all-African-American regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry a troop of all volunteer soldiers. These people did all these great things in history only to have it thrown back in their faces.
It can be one of the best experiences in a person’s life, but it is a major adjustment from the life that most people live prior to it. With this adjustment comes many types of stress that a college student will face. Whether it is taking out a loan, trying to make my parents proud, or relearning how to make friends, there will always be some sort of stress that comes along with being a college student. The stress that the average college student will endure can seem to be overwhelming at times, but these stresses are part of the learning experience of college and overcoming them will teach us valuable lessons that will help us in whatever we
Ignorance is bliss. At least, according to the old adage it is. And while ignorance may be euphoric for the unknowledgeable, it is not for the group of people on the receiving end of the ignorance. I was scarcely a teenager when I discovered inequality, oppression, and other discrepancies between different groups of people, And while now I’m unsure whether to label that as ignorance, or simply lack of knowledge, I can patently say that I was oblivious to the suffering that oppressed minorities experience. I walked through life unaware of the inequity that surrounded me at every turning point.
Students face various challenges throughout their college career. Thus, the problems that students have can range from balance, new lifestyle, to financial problems. Therefore, finding a balance between being a student, possibly working, and keeping up with their social life is a necessity. Similarly, others are away from home for the first time thus, they have a new responsibility with being on their own and findings ways to deal with homesickness. Likewise, being exposed to new financial situations is yet another challenge college students will need to learn how to cope with.
Once I came out to my parents, I could tell that they started to say certain things to try and connect with me. I was still their daughter and they still loved me very much, but after I told them, there was a new part of me that they didn’t quite understand. With that new part, there became a need to reconnect with all of me. Although my parents are lovely people and never try to be purposely offensive, they are human. Humans, including myself, can say things we don’t mean.