...My transition to college was a pretty rocky transition to say the least. Due to being the first cousin, sibling, and grandchild to go off to college, so I did not have anyone to look up to for advice or mentoring through my start of my college journey. I was faced with only being able to recognize one person when I started the University of Iowa. This challenge made me very anti social and very homesick which lead me to thinking about transferring to the colleges where all my friends attend. Thankfully, I found this girl on my floor who I began to bond with since we both had the same issue. We both decided to give Sorority rushing a shot, we heard it was an easy way to get involved in the community, school, and make a ton of new friends. I also looked to my R.A. for guidance during my internal struggle. She also suggested getting involved right here in my dorm with those that I live with through Hillcrest Association. After a rollercoaster of 55 days here at Iowa, I have come to learn a lot of how I have already grown through those experiences. I was able to seek out help from those who were in the same situation and those who I can look up to. That differs from how I was in high school where I was embarrassed to ever reach out for help when I needed it. Now after settling my roots at the University of Iowa, I look back at this short journey so far and saw how excited I was to finally handle my own life and schedule. It is exciting because being alone at first challenged...
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...Any kind of change is terrifying. Whether it be from trying a different haircut to moving to a different city. One of the most recent transitions I’ve experience is the transition from high school to college. There are many different aspects about college that makes it a scary transition. However, my shift from high school life to a college life was not as bad as I expected. When it comes to the educational part college is a bit more different from high school, but not as much. The class structure and content is really different. In college you receive syllabus where the assignments and due dates are included, therefore, you have no excuse to say you were not aware of the assignments. It also includes the topics that will be discussed in each...
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...school student remembers the stressful experience of preparing for college. Quite frankly, I never really understood the concept of college. In my opinion, it was just another ordinary school transition unlike the ones I had already experienced. I envisioned it be something along the lines of my middle school to high school transition. Yet, to my surprise, it was nothing of the like. It was not until my college transition, that I finally felt I was at a disadvantage in comparison to some of my classmates. It was also during this time that I realized I was a First-Generation College Student because neither of my parents had attended college and I was the first of my family to do so. Nevertheless, as a child, I never questioned the...
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...Going to college is one of the biggest milestones in a teenager’s life; it is a time where you are changing from a teenager in high school to an adult going to a college. But it is not an easy transition. Sometimes, people can find themselves confused in the challenging transition with trying to figure out where your classes are, how you are going to meet new friends, and figure out how you are going to have enough time to study and do classwork for all of your classes that are time consuming. As you are going through all the confusion and stress of your transition you also have another thing to pile onto your busy schedule, which is gaining leadership experience. Campus leadership can be anything from a club or an organization that is on campus that peaks your interest, or it could be something like volunteering anywhere in the UCF community. Campus leadership is very important, because if you are interested in gaining experience for a possible job that can began your career it is a perfect way to gain that experience....
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...As of recent, my transition to college has been a difficult one. I did not begin college immediately after graduating high school, instead allowing myself a few months in order to recuperate and work to assist my mother before pursing my major in Chemistry. Initially, she was against the idea of finding work, as there were concerns for my health, however, since recently escaping from years of domestic abuse, we are desperately trying to maintain our freedom. Predictably, I was unable to properly take care of my mental health, due to environmental and work stressors, and succumbed to my ailments, including severe depression, and generalized anxiety disorder. My spring semester of college was the most difficult times, because my mother and I...
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...Over the past years, I have had to adapt and persevere in situations I believed to be tough, if not impossible. The adaptation I had to make were to my transition from different high (regular public to magnet) and from high school to college. During my sophomore year in high school, I transferred from a public to a magnet school. I went from having no honors classes and barely any homework to AP classes and tons of readings each night. I struggled to feel comfortable and secure with myself as I began to doubt myself. After about a month and a half, I started to get the pace of my new school and was excelling at the level and better than some of the other students that have been there since middle school. Then, as I began my undergraduate studies,...
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...Packing up your room and leaving your home to head off to college is something that everyone has thought about and some dream about. I was one of them, excited to be the only one in my family to made it to college. I was excited to finally get out of the house away from my parents, finally have some freedom and make my dad proud of me for leaving the town that my family has always stayed in for so long. But as soon as I started actually packing my things and getting ready for school I began to panic and rethinking my decision on leaving. I remember packing my clothes in a big box the night before and crying on my floor thinking about how I was leaving home for longer than I ever had before. High school teachers always talk about how they are...
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... The interest in this essay will be the academic curriculum transition from secondary education to higher educational institutions such as colleges and universities. Interest in this area affects many individuals preparing for education beyond K12. The purpose of this essay is to provide an outline of how implement a curriculum improvement plan that goes beyond high school transitioning to colleges and universities. Analysis of Curriculum Articulation and Alignment Curriculums in many high schools (systems) throughout America vary, but regionally many public school systems are similar, especially if they are in the same state. Most states mandate certain criteria that must exist in terms of what is expected for graduation. However, school districts do develop their own curriculums, as long as the elements that are mandated exist in the development of each school districts academic plan. By focusing on existing articulation programs a review of what is occurring in Wisconsin and with some reference to California will be used as a comparison to the proposed plan. In most school systems the goal of curriculum articulation as it applies in Wisconsin and California, is to provide educators a method where they can work towards an established articulated curriculum. (Alexson & Kemnitz, 2004) The target is to provide students with a transition between their secondary education towards colleges or universities. (Alexson & Kemnitz, 2004) The overall goal of the...
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...Annotated Bibliography Labrie, J. W., & Cail, J. (2011). Parental interaction with college students: The moderating effect of parental contact on the influence of perceived peer norms on drinking during the transition to college. Journal of College Student Personnel, 52, 610-621. This article emphasized the fact that students tend to increase alcohol consumption during the first year of college. Research has shown that peers influence these decisions but, more importantly parents play a significant role on educating young adults on the dangers of alcohol. In this particular study a research project was conducted on incoming college freshman. Incoming college freshman were required to fill out an online questionnaire about their current drinking behaviors, intended drinking over the first semester, and how often they contacted their parents. Individual alcohol use was measured by questions on frequency of consumption. Intended alcohol use was assessed through questions involving how often a week that particular student anticipated drinking. Parent student contact was measured by asking how often students contacted their parents. They were asked separately for mother and father. After measuring these values, results showed that parents who have frequent conversations with their children about...
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...Brittany Coleman PSY-311-601 December 13, 2015 Social Psychology to the Rescue, College Student Dropout Rates I. Literature Review One growing concern for colleges and universities across the United States is college student dropout rates. According to College Atlas, 70% of Americans will study at a 4-year college, but less than two-thirds will graduate. About 40% of full-time students attending a 4-year institution in the United States complete a bachelor’s degree within 4 years, while around 58.6 % of students earn theirs within 6 years. Among research and findings pertaining to college student dropout rates, social, psychological, and economic factors tend to be the main causes of such a high percentage of college student dropouts. In the article titled, College Student Retention: An Exploration of the Relationship between Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Purpose in Life among College Students, DeWitz, Woosley, and Walsh believed that high school GPA, support, motivation, and coping strategies were all predictors of college student persistence. When a college student does not master these areas, then this could lead to them possibly dropping out. The article goes on to explain that student with low high school GPA’s tend to have a more difficult time meeting the academic requirements compared to a college student who had a relatively higher high school GPA. This could possibly require the student to put more time into their academics and therefore put a hold on developing...
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...Today, first generation college students are characterized as students who have parents that have never attended college. These students are often stressed out due to the unfamiliarity with college and how to obtain higher education. “As with many other major developmental shifts, the college transition can be a period of stressful life change for young adults” (Sy, Fong, Carter, Boehme, & Alpert, 2011, p. 384). Many of these students experience physiological stress by trying to maneuver around an unfamiliar setting. They often lack social support from family or friends, which is a crucial part of transitioning into college. Having a support system during this vital stage can help these students deal with these hardships of transitioning into...
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...The journey from high school to college will be challenging as far as time management and personal responsibilities. In high school, scheduled school days are structured based upon the portion of time during the day that stays the same every day. In college, the individual must make a drastic change to a more unpredictable and flexible schedule. Time management will be challenging for students because one will have to decide what time the courses will be taken and how those courses will align with other responsibilities. Personal responsibility is a wake up for call for college students. In college, the individual is responsible for what happens in their lives. One is responsible to make sure they are up for their 8am class because no one is there to wake them up to be sure that they are on time. It is the students’ responsibility to make sure that their assignments are complete and are turned in on time because the professor may not remind one of these things. In one’s younger years, it is easy to put the blame on others to make themselves feel better about their own fault. Both failures and success should be appointed to the person individually. Making the transition from high school to college will be the most challenging experience of many students’ lives. The transition from high school to college will build one’s character. School overall, both high school and college, help discover, refine, and test students’ character. Values and ethical systems of students individually...
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...case for everyone, for some it can be quite overwhelming to overcome the obstacles set out in the path to success. My decision to return now at this time of my life., changing old studying and work habits., and Transitioning from Battlefield to classroom., are my set of challenging obstacles. Each of these challenges plays a major role in my road to a college degree. Failure to overcome these obstacles will only make the whole experience that more challenging and pain full, and with the pressure of returning now, pain full isn’t what I need. First, my decision to return now at this time of my life sets out a challenge. It has been five years since I’ve stepped into a classroom and from what I last remember I wasn’t very good at it back then. The average college freshmen ranges usually from 18-19 years of age, I am 25 returning to college. At my age I have more responsibilities, I’m married, I have a family to support, and a full-time occupation to attend. Unlike the average college student who balances partying and studying, I Balance 40 hours of work per week, a wife at home and the pursuit to maintaining passing grades in college courses. My responsibilities have their share of weight on my chest, but they also motivate me more to not accept failure. Additionally, changing old studying and work habits is imperative to my success. I remember from my grade school days procrastination poor work habits and lack of effort were the contributing factors to many failed classes and...
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...without disabilities. This is just unreal to me, especially with all the resources we have to prepare our students for transitioning. This article was very informative, especially when it comes to better understanding what we as special educators need to do to better prepare our students for transitioning. The article states that, “The key to successful transition planning and instruction is transition assessment.” I believe this is where a majority of the special education teachers lack when it comes to preparing to transition their students. In the article, it talks about the demands of the 21st-century workforce and how it requires local education agencies to prepare students with disabilities for college and career readiness by providing instruction and services to assist youth in attaining positive post school outcomes. The transition assessment process provides guidance for using transition assessments to guide instruction and determine appropriate services for youth with disabilities. Since our nation is becoming more diverse, important...
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...DiQuan Washington Mrs. dionne Wesley GE:102 7/07/12 Transition from high school to college When you went to college did you ponder on the thought on how much college was different from high school? The differences are substantial and can be a lot to handle at once. When I first got here I didn’t know what to expect coming straight out of high school. Till this day I still don’t know what to expect but as time goes on you learn to go with it and adapt to you surroundings. When I arrived at Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) I noticed a few differences between my high school and my current university right away. The transition from high school to college was difficult to comprehend, because of the change in friends, not working, eating habits, environment, and my independence. My friends have changed a lot due to the transition from high school to college. I noticed that I have a rather difficile time keeping in contact with my friends back home. The distance between us makes it hard for us to spend time with one another. Also I have friends that attend other universities and the school schedule on top of my own makes it impossible for us to spend and adequate amount of time with each other. The thing I miss the most though would have to be working with my friends, they made it galvanize and worthwhile. I noticed since I have no one to share that same excitement with at any work place, I find myself not striving for employment. I haven’t had a job since I left high...
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