Do you ever worry about the cost of college? If so, you’re not alone; 70 percent of the public is concerned about paying for their child’s college education (“Chapter 5: Public Concerns About The Price of College”). No one wants a more expensive college, because it causes a numerous amount of negative effects. Some of those negative effects include: Debt from college loans being too high which is delaying graduates from completing life milestones, college degrees do not guarantee learning or job
may be many topics that have a positive and negative effect on the person or thing, but in the case of lack of sleep, it only has a negative effect. It is because sleep has been important for one to regain one’s energy. If one would lessen one’s estimated hours of sleep, one would eventually experience the negative effects that lack of sleep brings. Sleep is the only way for one to be able to rest their body, especially the nervous system. Negative Effects of Lack of Sleep on Academic
(Wrye and Pruitt 74 ). So, why do college students continue to drink despite harmful consequences? College students drink for a few reasons including “social motives, conformity motives, coping motives and enhancement” (Wrye and Pruitt 74). From fraternity parties to in-dorm drinking, students abuse alcohol and drink excessively. This decreases academic performance, threatens personal morals, and leads to injuries and sexual abuse.
demonstrating the non-medical use, the negative side effects linked to these medications, and differentiating the users of these drugs from intellectuals. Talbot begins the article by focusing on non-medical uses for drugs such as Adderall and Ritalin for academic performance. She then explains how the substances work before focusing on how these drugs are being used and growing more popular among college students. She introduces Alex, a college student, who uses “brain-boosters” regularly to
school and college student ethics are continuously evolving due to the use of technology in the classroom. When using technology, high school and college students tend to be distracted, for example, instead of completing or continuing their work, students search random topics and play games. Due to this, students are gaining negative motives from technology, and as a result, they are discovering new ways to handle and exploit technology to cheat. Technology’s negative impact on student ethics in
Are Many College Students Today Overly Digital Dependent? As a freshman at FGCU I consider myself to be very dependent on my electronics, whether it be my laptop or my iPhone. Considering that most of my school work is completed using my laptop, I have no idea what I would do if I were to lose it. I believe the reason that I am so dependent on technology is because I have invested a lot of my time perfecting my usage of it that they have become a part of me. When I take a moment to think about this
across the globe. Certain characteristics of hip-hop music seems to have a strong effect on consumers. Regarding the feedback from the public, hip-hop has both negative and positive reviews. Nonetheless, the importance of this study is to examine how college students have personally been affected from listening to hip-hop music. The authors have examined how hip-hop music impacts the communication style of college students. The significance of this study is to evaluate how media, such as hip-hop music
Milich, R. , Lynam, D. , & Charnigo, R. (2012). Negative urgency, distress tolerance, and substance abuse among college students. Addictive Behaviors, 37(10), 1075-1083. Alison J. Kaiser did a thorough study on college students and substance abuse in response to two variables. The first variable is distress tolerance. Distress tolerance is the individuals detected ability to handle negative affect. The second variable is negative urgency. Negative urgency is when an individual feels the need to
two hundred ninety students from a University was employed. Beck’s Depression Inventory and Heppner’s Problem Solving Scale were utilized. Results suggested that non-depressed student averages were significantly higher on problem-solving scales than the depressed students. General orientation and decision making variables accounted for twenty nine percent of the variance in depression among the college students. Hancock, Bray & Nason, (2002), in a study investigated the effects of professors’ instructional
The transition from high school to college is a major step for students like myself, being that you have to get used to the change in the environment and study demands versus being in high school. College brings on a number of changes for teenagers, who may be leaving home for the first time. Author of “College Pressures” William Zinsser makes the argument that “economic, parental, peer, and self-induced pressures can have enormous impacts on college life as students” (452). Zinsser also believes that