...The days are getting cooler, and you are a few week away from moving into your college dorm. For many young adults, college is a highly anticipated milestone. You will make new friends, and you will learn many new things. This is probably the first time you have lived away from your family, and you might be nervous. To make the transition to college life easier, you can start planning your move to your new home. What to Bring You should always pack essential items. Your essential items are things that you use every day. Do not pack too many bulky items. You can purchase bulky items when you arrive at your destination. You will need a few pairs of shoes and a few jackets. If you are starting school in the winter, pack a few sweaters. Leaving...
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...changes that are bound to happen. Whether it be starting a new job, moving away, or going to school. Change can be exciting, but it can also be very frightening. The beauty and curse about change, is that you don’t know what is going to happen next. The book Who Moved My Cheese illustrates this concept very well, and I learned many things from this story that I can apply towards myself. I have recently had two new changes in my life. I have moved away from home and I have started college. Both of these changes are interconnected, since I moved away for college, but that doesn’t make them any easier. At first I was nervous about this new change, and I still am a little bit. Everything was essentially handed to me at home and high school was never a challenge for me. Now I have to remember to go grocery shopping, do dishes, pay bills, and keep up with school work at the same time. However, I knew this was something that I had to do, and it was, deep down, something I really wanted to do. After reading this story I think one of the biggest lessons that I could have utilized for myself, for this change, was the preparation. Hem and Haw were not ready to move on when their cheese ran out and I was not ready either. They kept going back to the station each day with the mindset that the cheese would be there forever, while I kept going home each day with the mindset that I had plenty of time to worry about moving later. I should not have been shocked by the change and neither should...
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...Dorm Life As a college student, I did not realize the importance and the amount of responsibility that it takes to maintain a dorm room living on my own, in comparison to the expectations living at home under adult supervision. Back at home as a high school student, my priorities and expectations from my parents were to attend school five days out of the week, manage my time to complete all assignments and to complete all chores that were expected to be done on time. Some of these chores consisted of cleaning my room, taking out the trash, and do my own laundry. When it was time to clean and organize my room, I had a tendency to clean and organize it the way I felt most comfortable. I did not have to worry about arranging all my personal valuables with limited space or share a room with another person and their own valuables. It was easy for me to place objects where and how I wanted and not have to feel stressed out on where I could find certain items when I needed them. My ability to organize my room and remove myself from distractions as a college student is not the same as to living at home. The most challenging, and time consuming problems moving into a dorm room is trying to manage a room that has provided me limited space on what I can work with when moving into a whole new environment. Moving into a dorm room can cause problem such as organization of the room, the cleanliness of the room and dealing with distractions. First, placing and organizing personal items...
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...One social problem facing young adults is moving from the primary household away to college. This represents a dramatic shift in the lifespan. Teenagers vary on the developmental spectrum in relation to physical, psychological, and socioeconomic status. Racial minorities also face specific challenges when moving away from families. Adolescence into young adulthood highlight changing familial systems, and its relation to identity formation, independence, and academics. Young adulthood is a time of rapid change and growth during the human lifespan. Children graduate high school, and choose to work or continue on to college. They may see college as a necessity, while others find hard work will yield success. However, more persons are under the assertion that young adults should continue past secondary education. Solution The cost of tuition for students has risen greatly within the last ten years. Many students spend forty-thousand dollars or more to earn a bachelor’s degree. Students are left with large debt in the form of student loans. Many graduates have struggled to find work at their educational level since the Great Recession. Numerous entry level positions require a bachelor’s degree with years of working in a specific field. As social workers, we should denote this precedes fair wages and economic justice. This particularly affects minorities whose access to higher education and monetary funds can be lower than caucasian majorities. That is not to say...
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...August 2015; 1,996 miles; junior year. Naturally, moving in the middle of high school was entirely unappealing to me. Not seeing my best friends for months on end, not visiting my grandparents and uncle whenever I felt lonely: unimaginable. I could not fathom leaving the only place I ever had the blessing to call “home”. I abhorred the idea of living in the midst of the stereotypical "traditional" views of the "uneducated" Southerners. The only experience I had with “real Southerners” was the cowboy shop located on the main street of my town; I was not looking forward to people like that. As any emotionally unstable teenager would do, I combatted the move until the minute my plane took off from the ground, including locking myself in...
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...Beginning college studies is like starting an entirely new life. One would think that college was simply an academic extension of high school, but that is far from the truth. The commencement of one life marks the end of another life. It is a time where the previous life of a high schooler ceases to exist, and is replaced by a different world. In fact, the major changes a student goes through are more indicative of growing up than they are of getting smarter. The following paragraphs explore some of the differences student face when moving on from high school to college. Often, students nearing their high school graduation wonder what new challenges will be waiting for them in college. When the days of college finally arrive, they realize that these challenges are major and will alter their lives forever. From the first semester, right from the start, the college freshman notices a drastic difference in terms of personal freedom. For one thing, most college students do not continue to live with their parents. College is a time when the former high schooler develops a greater level of independence. The student grows and matures, moves her belongings and finds a new place to live. Sometimes, she finds a roommate, someone who is not a member of the family. Moving doesn't just have to be leaving the home in search of a new one. Sometimes students make an even bigger transition than simply leaving the house. In the United States it is very common for students to leave their home...
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...for five years. I pondered this choice for a very long time and in the process many thoughts crossed my mind. I had a considerable amount of concerns while pondering this thought such as where I would live, where would I work, and if I was ready to start my life all over again in a new but familiar place. Since my automobile accident, moving back to Cleveland was the biggest decision I was faced with making yet. I contemplated it for about six months before making a definitive choice. My biggest concern in moving back home was where was I going to live? Five years ago, when I moved out of my parent’s house, for college, I told myself that I would never move back. I told myself that I would never move back not because I didn’t love or care for my parents but because I felt that going to college was a step toward becoming an adult and moving back home would be anything other than a step forward in life. I weighed the pros and cons of moving back home and in doing so, I came up with more pros than I did cons. I figured that living closer to my family was more important that living close to friends because in my five years away, friends had come and gone. In making the decision to move back home the next step was figuring out where I was going to...
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...CIPD Assessment Report: To be completed by candidate and assessor: Centre name: | University Croydon College | Candidate name: | PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME ON THIS SHEET | | CIPD Membership/ registration No: | | Unique Learner No (ULN) (if applicable): | 535885 | Qualification title: | Certificate in Human Resource Practice | Module title(s): | Recording, Analysing and Using Human Resources Information | Module code(s): | 3RAI F20I3B | Assessment activity (and assignment title if applicable) and the learning outcomes addressed: | Human Resource Management of Data | Date due for assessment: | 11.05.2015 | Extension request date: | N/A | | | Extension granted: | N/A | Actual date evidence submitted: | 08.05.2015 | Revised due date: | N/A | Candidate declaration: | * I confirm that the work/evidence presented for assessment is my own unaided work. * I have read the assessment regulations and understand that if I am found to have ‘copied’ from published work without acknowledgement, or from other candidate’s work, this may be regarded as plagiarism which is an offence against the assessment regulations and leads to failure in the relevant unit and formal disciplinary action. * I agree to this work being subjected to scrutiny by textual analysis software if required. * I understand that my work may be used for future academic/quality assurance purposes in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998. * I understand that the work/evidence...
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...Students that have debt try and get away from going further into debt. This is a normal thing for students to do since paying off debt is a hard thing to do while working a minimum wage paying job. So, to lessen the debt load students are moving towards smaller degrees like that of human recourses and marketing. Instead of higher degrees such as doctors and lawyer that cost more and are for longer. These jobs are still getting taken up by the wealthy rather than everyone (Marcus). This means that lower-class students do not have the same opportunity that wealthier students have like free colleges are trying to endorse. They push away the fact that many students still cannot achieve jobs that need higher education because they fear that they...
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...want to pursue. This causes problems when trying to break barriers and work to create new innovations. College presents students with the opportunity to become whoever they choose to be, and find an occupation to fit that. College is an opportunity that allows you to pursue the “American Dream”. The opportunities that college present you with are endless and are open to however you choose to use them. As we are occupying our time about the limits we make ourselves we should be working to broaden our horizon in all aspects. Frank Bruni discussed specific points about what he believes the college experience should be such as networking, involvement in school activities and social media. Moving on from anything you have spent a lot time with or doing takes a lot of willpower to complete. Though this may be hard doing, moving on to become something greater is key to your success. Frank Bruni stresses this in his New York Times article. When in college, students tend to lean towards what they used to do in previous years as a form of comfort and support. This causes students to stay in a “gated community” per say. Students should be networking and expanding themselves rather than trying to recreate their high school years. Joining new groups and clubs instead of reaching to find identical substitutes allows you to broaden your horizons in all social suspects. Students believe college is too much about finding resources that aid them with their own personal preferences when they should...
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...Ashley Zivojnovic February 8, 2015 English 121 Diagnostic Essay It was a long time coming but it finally happened late last Spring when it was time to sign up for classes for the Fall semester at Front Range Community College, where I had been attending school for a full three semesters at that point. The flowers were beginning to bloom outside with the sunshine beaming down and it finally just made so much sense to me, that I had been studying for the wrong degree all along. This is my second school I have been to, to work on achieving my Marketing degree, but even though I do love the crazy world of sales and advertising, it just wasn’t my passion anymore and maybe it never was at all. My hobby, the one thing that has always made me feel such an inner happiness that just bursts out like the sunshine that was bursting through the sky that day, is the lovely and fabulous world of wedding and event planning. Although, Front Range offers certificates for event management, that was not all that I wanted, I wanted more than that, but what degree would I now pursue for my new found but distant career choice? As I did a little research into a few degrees, I decided that I would put all of my energy and effort toward a degree in Hotel and Tourism Management with certifications in wedding and event planning. So now that I have that figured out, it was time to find the right school and the right path to get there. This was no easy task that I set out for myself as there are...
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...Abstract The Moore Brothers on a business called College Men's Unlimited. It is a store that offers consumers middle to high quality traditional menswear at an affordable price. College Men's Unlimited is currently located in a two-story house the Moore Brothers converted from their living quarters to also a place of business. The area of the two-story house on where the store is located is 3600 ft.². Eighteen months ago a College Town Mall was built but because of the money they were making at the time they could not lease a space. Now that the business is doing well, they felt as though it was time to relocate to the College Town Mall. The space of a wanted was currently lease to another individual canceled on the lease so now the two brothers saw the opportunity to sign a five-year leasing contract in the College Town Mall. It was an outstanding location that was bounded by prestigious homes, a short walk from campus and two blocks away from downtown. By the following week the mall developer wanted the Moore Brothers to provide him with a complete layouts of the new 2800 ft.² store they least so that he will be able to assign an emergency workroom to complete the store for its grand opening. Assembling the new store is 40' x 70' and is rectangular in shape; I will explain the layout for the new store and decide what merchandise should be placed where. I will also decide the size of the office and storage space that is needed and where counters should be placed. Other external...
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...about exploring the world and experience what it has to offer, but several things has kept him back and tied him to his childhood, working on the farm his family owns, doing his daily duties. Wil´s mom is presented as a hardworking woman, since we from the very beginning gets introduced to this woman called Edie, who is supposed to assist Wil´s mom with her duties, finally giving her more spare time. Edie and Wil´s relationship later on evolves into love. Edie has done the thing Wil couldn´t. She broke her daily routine, took the step and travelled. Therefore Wil admires what she stands for and immediately falls in love with her. Then he begins to explain to her, how he had intentions of moving out and gone to college as well “I could´ve done my A levels, he said. Could´ve gone to college (…) Left when I was sixteen. When my dad died.” In other words, did Wil because of his father´s death, give up his dreams and his studies and never came back on the horse. Later on Wil talks about the caravan which has become a symbol of his dreams of travelling in the world. Wil explains how he used to travel with the rest of the family in it, and how they suddenly stopped doing it, probably because of the loss of his father: “ The caravan had flowery thin curtains, he remembered, that didn’t quite cover the windows. It trembled with the dreams of the people in it.” Now the caravan is bound and worn to the same place. Therefore the caravan is a symbol of Wil´s...
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...half of college freshmen show some concern with how to pay for college. This is the highest this number has been since 1971 (S. Chan and Kim Chan). The amount of college graduate debt has been rapidly increasing also. With limited jobs available because of the high unemployment rate, college graduates find themselves staying in debt even longer. However, grants and financial aid are available to students, but students still struggle to pay for their college tuition. Although some claim that higher education is still affordable, higher education costs too much because the state’s revenue is low, the unemployment rate is high, and graduates cannot pay off loans. One reason that higher education is not affordable is that the states’ revenue is low and the states are in debt. Because of their decreasing tax revenues, many states need to make cuts in their budget. As a result of this, tuition is rising and other changes are happening throughout colleges. Some of these changes include: higher student to faculty ratios, less but larger classes, and fewer on-campus jobs that normally support students (Scaliger). These changes affect students and impact their view and decisions of certain colleges. The tuition rate has also “been rising at about 6 percent a year for most of the past ten years” (S. Chan and Kim Chan). This percent inevitably makes it harder for students to find an affordable college. High tuition prices also keep some people from attending their dream college. All of...
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...Stress Students attending college are subjected to varying amounts of stress depending on what classes they enroll in from semester to semester. But the classes a student takes is not where the stress begins it really begins when a student even thinks about going to college. Then when they start registering for classes and applying for financial aid the stress level is multiplied. Another huge stress factor for students is also when they must live on campus away from home for the first time and around complete strangers. Yet even another high stress factor for college students is trying to maintain a high grade point average. Before a student is able to enroll into the classes that they want, they have to stress over the application process of the college that they want to attend. The prospective student has to fill out a mountain of paperwork that is contained in the college packet. At some colleges students even have to write an essay along with their application. Even after all this paperwork there is still the overwhelming amount of paperwork required for applying for financial aid to complete. After the packets of paperwork for admissions and for financial aid are completed there is still the long drawn out process of waiting for a response from the student’s college of choice to contact them to let them know if they have been accepted into the school and if they have been approved for financial aid. Each day that the potential student has to wait seems like an eternity...
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