...Letter to Next Year’s Freshman Welcome to Mr. Wiens Language Arts class! I am positive that you will enjoy English Class this year more than any other! You will do several projects in class that are fun, get to watch Mr. Wiens dance, and with block scheduling, you will have more time to complete your assignments than you have ever had! My favorite Language Arts project that I did throughout the entire school year would be the podcast that I created in May. To kick off the unit, I listened to several very well written essays, and then I filled’ out a graphic organizer, and wrote my own essay about whatever I wanted! After I finished the essay, I voice recorded the entire thing into a 3 minute podcast, and my entire class listened to it. I have learned many things throughout my time being in Mr. Wienss’ Class, but the two most important things I have learned are number 1, how to write an essay (you will do a lot of those), and number two, I learned how to be myself and see more than one side of a story. If I had to redo my Freshman year, one thing that I would do differently in Language Arts is just get more work done in class. I almost always...
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...As I look over my freshman essay, I remember the process in which it took to compete this essay. I strongly believe with the skills that I’ve gained over the years, would have helped me with the development of this paper. At first, I thought this essay would be the hardest thing that I would have to do within my college career. However, as I’m coming close to the end of my college career I realized I was wrong. Nonetheless, looking at my freshman essay now, I do see how I’ve grown within these past for years. Within my freshman year, I realized didn’t take the time to actually analyze my topic to where I could have understand it more. Therefore, it didn’t come out the way that I’ve envisioned it to be. The topic of evil is a widespread and extensive topic. If I was to approach this topic now, I would have done more extensive research on the nature of evil. This would have made me more knowledgeable about the topic at hand and helped me determine how to start this paper. In addition, before beginning this essay, I should have created an outline to help guide me throughout my paper. The outline would have given me the opportunity go through the research that I’ve gathered and helped to be more critical on how I wanted to present evil and it’s different levels. Doing this would have help me to develop this essay within a more critical and organize matter. While reading my freshman essay, I find myself coming up with more ideas of how I could have develop my point of view of the...
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...Psych 100 Term Paper Psychological factors can be related to many different problems, one problem that had personally affected me was the grades I got my freshman year of college. I started my college career struggling a little bit and often wondered how I could raise my grades and improve my GPA until I was satisfied with the grades I would get. Coming to college I was finally on my own with no one to wake me up, make me do homework, or go to class. These all led to my GPA not being exactly where I wanted it to be along with a number of psychological factors that have all been introduced throughout lecture and the readings. The four different chapters I can relate this problem most too would have to be those on stress, personality, motivation and social psychology. Stress is one of the main leaders for college students and low GPA’s and I believe it had a lot to do with my original GPA from my freshman year. Living here on campus is extremely overwhelming at first for a freshman here at UMass Amherst. There are so many events that you can attend, RSOs that you can join, and other things in town and campus. It is also the first time moving away from home and that can lead to stress because no one is around to remind you about things that you may forget to do. The classes here at UMass were also extremely different from any classes I took at my high school. I was used to smaller classes of about 20-25 students that were all mostly my friends, now I was being thrown into a...
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...If there was one thing I learned freshman year, it was to not believe what everyone has to say. Everyone told me that freshman year classes were the easiest, and they were completely wrong. Sadly it was back to reality, no more staying up late and sleeping in with not a worry about what I was going to do that day. Now I had a schedule to follow Monday through Friday that involved homework, studying, writing essays, and soccer practice. It was seven thirty in the morning on the first day of school, which was the earliest I had been up in 3 months and I was already working on an assignment. I never would have guessed my first day of classes would involve graded assignments and homework. I assumed it would be full of listening to the teacher explain the ten page long syllabus that only comes in use during the first week of school, while I daydream about my summer, trying to fight my eyelids from closing. But the assumption I made about the typical first day of high school was completely wrong and it changed my outlook on high school for the rest of the year. It’s seven thirty in the morning, the sun is barely out and I’m already sweating through my t-shirt. Luckily I am not the only one, as I look around the classroom everyone looks miserable and fatigued. You could tell everyone wanted to be anywhere but at Anderson High School. The bell had just rung and our English teacher introduced himself and it seemed like it was going to be a fun year. Mr. Ger was dressed professional...
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...As my junior year winds down, the final chapter of my book is about to unravel: senior year. However, before I start exploring my horizons, which is going to be filled with new opportunities and memories to be made, it’s best to reflect on my experience in AP Language and Composition with Mrs.Miles throughout junior year. These past 8 months were filled with enlightening experiences. From the discussions and articles of the week to the countless essays we had to write. I believe that Mrs.Miles really focused on our writing skills, which I am awfully grateful that she did. Mrs.Miles has assisted in my growth in writing; as my grammar has improved, including the use of commas, colons, and semicolons. In fact, I am now knowledgeable of the fact...
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...Freshman 15 Is the freshman 15 a real thing or is it a hype or myth? They say that the average freshman student in college will gain about 15 extra pounds by the end of their first year in college. But, does a person of the same age group who didn’t attend college meet that same average? Now, I am not expert on nutrition, but I do try to maintain a healthy and balanced diet. It is not rocket science to understand that if you over eat there is a very good chance that you will gain weight, despite your age or gender. What other reasons and examples can we explore that will explain the freshman 15 theory or urban myth. What are some of the things that a freshman in college might have to deal with in their first year? Most peoples’ first year in college can be a stressful experience, filled with anxiety of being thrown into a new environment. Stress is one example we may account weight gain in the first year. Many students go to college away from home and my live in a dorm room, where there is no kitchen available. This results in eating out, fast food, takeout, processed meals that are filled with preservatives and high fat, and calorie count. Irregular eating and sleeping schedules can attribute to weight gain, also late night meals and snacks. One example usually seem to be over looked and sometimes forgotten, is the consumption of alcohol, beers and liquors add more calories to your existing diet. Sitting for long periods of time, along with lack of exercise can also be a contributing...
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...How many of you are under 21 and drink? I’ve heard that college is supposed to be the best four years of your life—we have classes that assign heavy workloads, work-study during the week, on the weekends we get to let loose and “turn up”, and that we will meet some of the best people here, along with finding out who we really are. Some of us think college is like what movies portray them; everybody’s drinking, smoking, and partying, with very little studying and barely any homework. The realities of college don’t set in until students encounter the coursework that presumably consume their time. Until then, college students tend to have more fun than they usually would back home because of the lack of parental supervision. During the first few weeks of college, students, especially freshmen, are at the highest risk of alcohol-related harm. With the pressures of classes and social acceptance, freshmen feel more anxious about making their way into the college life. "We see a spike then because anxiety is high, and the rigors of coursework haven't yet taken hold” (Cleveland). The drinking problem starts with the way college is portrayed—as a life that revolves around alcohol. Freshmen come in expecting it to be that way, so behave that way, the excessive drinking and reckless behavior are all mirrored from movies and media. According to national surveys conducted by Harvard School of Public Health, 44 percent of all college students binge drink and many suffer alcohol-induced...
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...blame your problems and failures on your family or instructors anymore it is all on you. College may seem like a huge party but it is not, at least if you want to actually gain anything from you time there other than foggy memories of you and your friends creating mischief when you should be back at your dorm studying for that exam. You are an adult now and with great power come’s great responsibility. When we are young it is easy to push the blame off onto someone else to psychologically make ourselves feel better about our own faults. However, both an individual’s failures and successes should be accredited to the person responsible for them. A college student’s freshman year is most often a rude awakening; when there is no one to blame for you being late to your 8:00 am class but yourself, or your research paper is late because you forgot and your instructor did not remind you well guess what. That is not their job. Therefore, taking personal responsibility is a major challenge college students are forced to address if they want to further...
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...College Admission? Abstract: In this research paper I examined the effects of affirmative action ban on the university enrollment stage. The importance of this topic is that it is very contentious social issue today. In this paper I mentioned some of the experiences of African American activist Ward Connerly, examples of his movement and his opponent approach towards affirmative action. The research finds that affirmative action bans decrease the enrollment in selective universities. However, affirmative action debate will continue in the United States. From research discussions I find that affirmative action carries out emotional reaction, because the concern is the inequality in education. However throughout the research I found some confusions and mixed proofs for that concern. Affirmative action in college admission is one of today’s most argumentative social policy issues. The supporters of affirmative action view it as a just response to past or present discrimination, stress the social benefits of producing minority role models and leaders, and claim that there are educational benefits to diversity. At the same time its opponents contend that it is an impediment to achieving a race-blind society and may even be harmful to those it is intended to directly benefit. The issue has been in headlines as affirmative action in college admissions has been limited in recent years by court decisions in some states and ballot initiative...
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...cash advance. Due to its convenience, more and more transactions are settled by credit cards and thus it became popular in recent years. However, the application of credit cards are much more easier nowadays especially for teenagers just over eighteen, therefore the problem of overspending with credit cards exists. If fact, there are three major reasons that lead to overspending of credit cards among teenagers. First of all, most teenagers don't know how to manage their own finance. A research report by Sallie Mae (2009,p2) shows that, there is a recommended 10% of income as a payment of debts for teenagers. However the research has investigated that there are 30% of income as debts payment in reality among teenagers which is $3173 US dollars on average. It also states that teenagers are mismanaging their credit cards by overspending with it and they are unable to pay for the debts in result. To conclude, teenagers just spend all or even more then they have with the help of their own credit cards, resulting in overspending and debts. Secondly, not knowing the serious consequences that bring by overspending among teenagers is also a major reason that cause overspending. A research report by Xiao, J.J & Tang, C.Y & Serido, J & Shim, S, (2011,p4) try to investigate factors that affecting risky borrowing behavior on over 2000 first-year student that have their own credit cards. The result shows that financial knowledge is negatively related with risky borrowing behavior...
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...to use the Boatwright library website. In public school I was not taught the importance of scholarly work nor how to find it. The only time I was assigned a major research project was in my senior year of high school. I went to one of the specialty schools in the Richmond Public Schools system. Two of the requirements for graduation was the freshman paper and the senior thesis. Looking back, I remember how hard I was struggling in completing my freshmen paper. It was about the effects of the pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. The 10 page paper required extensive research with 350 flashcards, 3 drafts, and a class trip to the Chesapeake Bay at the end of...
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...Since the beginning of my freshman year at MTSU, my semester has almost seem like a blur. I faintly remember my very first day of Dr. Donovan’s Expository Writing course. The first thing I first noticed when I walked in was how minimal the class roster was. Through the weeks that seemed like no time, I was surrounded in a welcoming and professional environment. Over the duration of forming the assigned four projects, we all formed a friendly, helpful bond that assisted us in shaping our overall grades. When outlining Why We Praise Hip-Hop as my third project, I had to convey a tone that made my information seem reliable. Since I am not a musician or music critic as a profession, it seemed difficult to speak from a position of expertise. I learned how to obtain this by using my sources from being an avid listener of hip-hop music for many years. I also used specific terms and vocabulary that music fans would recognize to demonstrate a tone they would be familiar with in order to establish credibility....
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...and those who do it unintentionally. Academic Integrity 3 Plagiarism Studies have demonstrated that a large proportion of college students are not informed about the principles of properly quoting and citing others work (Roig, 1997, 1999). I know for myself that I did learn and was not taught how to do so in high school nor in my first year of college being that I was a physical education major writing papers were not a major requirement in my freshman year. So I never learned about quoting, citing or even how to do research for a paper. Which can be another source of plagiarism or just producing poor quality papers? Some students can do research using non-credible sources and quote information from these sources at face value and lead people astray. A paper written by Cullen J Chandler and Alison S Gregory called Sleeping with the Enemy: Wikipedia in the classroom. They did a study on Wikipedia a free online encyclopedia written by people with no qualifying credentials that college students were using for research. This paper taught students the importance...
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...learned so much from my other classmates through discussion boards when reading their posts as well as the feedback they provide me. With two weeks left for this term, I am still open to learning more from my classmates as well as the benefits of technology. In answering the discussion assignment this week about specific technology equipment that we could not live without, I was able to use the checklist we filled out from the first week. As mentioned from my last journal entry, we are always building on the prior week’s material in order to help prepare us for the current week. Therefore, I was able to use the checklist as a guide to help with this week’s discussion assignment. In reflecting on how much technology has evolved over the years growing up, I learned that living without it would be difficult. However, learning about techno-stress was an interesting topic where we often rely on technology on a daily basis which causes our stress level to rise. As a result, we get too involved or “plugged-in” with technology that it can be over stimulating for us which can lead to dangerous situations. As much as technology has become so productive in our daily lives, I learned that taking a break from our computers and cell phones can be a good thing once in a while to decrease our stress levels. One aspect of week 4’s classroom resources that surprised me was the self-assessment quiz on the Math and English content. It’s a comprehension quiz to assess one’s ability’s to...
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...with one stone.” The stone was abolishing the five sentence per paragraph policy. The two birds represented writing techniques and understanding how to express myself into a paper. Unfortunately, the only English classes I have ever taken in my higher education were English 102 and English 103. From what I can recall, I was intellectually thinking and writing constantly about my opinions on certain topics. The implementation of doing self-evaluations through writing assignments help me drastically. I was conscious about making sense instead of writing remarkably. Is the...
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