Most Overated Product In the essay “America's Most Overrated Product: The Bachelor's Degree,” that originally appears in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Marty Nemko discusses his views on a four-year college education as a career counselor. “Among high-school students who graduated in the bottom 40 percent of their classes, and whose first institutions were four-year colleges, two-thirds had not earned diplomas eight and a half years later” (Nemko 523). This paper will focus on the analysis
membership in sororities has increased 65% since 2004 (Robbins, 2014). During recruitment the sororities only focus on the positives, but not many negatives. Sometimes there are rumors around campus and news stories when things go wrong at other schools. But it’s hard to know what students are getting into before they rush, so as a result new members are blindsided. The question is which one is right,
One of the most beneficial things that you can do to help others in your community is become a human service worker. Overall, human service workers provide a service to society, most likely during times of need. Often times human service workers assist people in working through personal crises (“Healthcare Careers,” n.d.). These situations often make the person feel as though they need some sort of external resource and direction in order to move forward in their life. Human service workers provide
college and are way better off than most middle class citizens. Both sides have valid arguments. Some people decide to further their educations because they feel pressured by friends, family, and counselors to attend college or they feel that college is the logical thing to do after graduating from high school. In the essay “Grow up? Not so Fast” Lev Grossman talks about how people attend college not because they want to but because
feel that the policies should be rewritten to suit everyone’s needs. The current policy allows smokers to smoke anywhere outside of the buildings. This can be a problem for those who do not smoke because smokers can stand in pathways leading to the school, which forces a non-smoker to walk by them. As shown in the graph below, the number of people who smoke cigarettes are on the rise and there are some ways that smoking can be implemented on college grounds that would be fair to everyone. One way
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Clearly he had never had to step into Royalton High School at the start of seventh grade. I love school, but no pre-teen enjoys waking up in the morning to realize that a) she is starting seventh grade, b) she has to ride The Bus, c) she is attending a completely different school, and d) she is the “new” kid. Being the fresh meat has both its pros and cons, but the one thing that is most definitely a negative is all the attention. I would be the new