That is right, not only have the college applications increased, but the overall enrollment of college students is at an all-time high. What is even more refreshing is to learn that roughly 90% of these students are actually enrolled full-time. And to think that many people viewed our younger generation as lazy. My only hope is that these students remain enrolled for the full duration of their college education.
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Four years used to be the expected amount of time it would take for students to earn their bachelors degree. Today, it is quite common for students to end up taking five or six years to earn their degree. Although there are many factors involved with this strange increase in schooling length, it may dishearten [...]
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Twenty-two dissections. That’s the number I was given by my science teacher at the beginning of my nine week Comparative Biology class. Twenty-two worms, squids, clams, frogs, scorpions, and who knows what. The purpose, I was assured, was to compare the organisms from an evolutionary standpoint. From someone who hasn’t taken a Biology class in [...]
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As graduation approaches (and thus the real world looms ahead for college seniors ready to walk the stage with pomp and circumstance) more and more people from various walks of life are going to start offering advice to the newest generation to academically inclined. Yet I can’t help but wonder if this soon to be [...]
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Now that college acceptance letters have gone out, seniors aren’t the ones waiting anxiously by their mailbox; it’s the university’s turn to nibble hangnails and tap toes as they wait to hear if any of the athletes recruited to play sports accept their invitation to join the school. Where top student athletes head to school [...]
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Typically, when people imagine college students, they picture young adults in their early twenties; however, it is extremely common to have college students who are ten, twenty, or thirty years beyond that age. Whether it is a generation or two that separates the students in age, having a multi-aged campus is a wonderful sign of [...]
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As distressing as it may seem, going to an expensive private school may actually improve students’ grade point averages. In a recent study, posted by Economix, the grades and SAT scores compared between students from public and private schools have been showing a growing diversion over the years. Though the average GPAs used to be [...]
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Are unpaid internships fair? What kinds of rules govern companies who employ college kids for free? It’s time we talked about the not-too-much-talked-about trend of working for nothing.
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With so much dependence on communicating through instant messaging (IM), texting, and e-mails, there has begun to be a drop in the ability for people to communicate face-to-face. Granted, the people who struggle with this do not make up the majority… yet. However, I have noticed a growing rise in this particular problem. And a [...]
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Many college students look at their college years as a time to experience things and have fun, but do these behaviors grow into a permanent lifestyle? Is there any real reason that students would stop their partying ways after graduation?
Peer pressure does not end when we leave high school. It is still alive in college. [...]
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