challenges. There is nothing easy in this world and everybody needs to work hard to acquire anything they want. Lately, some student realizes that they are struggling academically in higher education institutions. Graduated with flying colour result during the high school occasionally did not guarantee you to become the best in the college or university. Most of them think that college and university life is much easier than school. Alas, everything was the contrary as they have to tussle at almost every
Critical Preface: The problem of college drinking has perplexed people for a long time in the United States. Nearly all the students have experienced the behavior of drinking on campus whether they drink or not. Especially excessive drinking causes the negative a lot of behaviors and has resulted a lot of disturbing troubles on campus. However, a lot of students still persist in drinking in the college with some positive reasons of this behavior. Therefore, college drinking becomes a controversial
campus. Many students may be away from home for the first time in their life. This newfound independence comes with just as much responsibility. A common concern for all of the student’s parents is the safety of their child. College is notorious for its party scene and binge drinking, and an alarming amount of injuries and deaths occur every single year. Most of those injured do not realize the dangers that can result from an excessive consumption of alcohol until it is too late. That is why prevention
College; a place once populated by brilliant, studious, well rounded students, has experienced an expected twist over the past few years. 1,825 deaths, 599,000 injuries, 696,000 assaults, and 97,000 cases of sexual abuse. These are such drastic numbers, but there is only one reason for all these corrupted acts of society, alcohol (College Drinking 1). Abusing the privileges of alcohol corrupts students minds, intellectually and socially. Many college students experience a euphoria of freedom and
knowledge. That is why, it is possible to say that a person which graduates from college differs greatly from a freshman. First of all, it should be said that the thing which is the most important and makes the difference is experience. It is easy to determine whether a person is experienced or not. The thing is that during the process of study a person obtains not only knowledge. Student teaches how to communicate and how to behave in society. It is a very important
excuse most college students give when asked why they need the famous drug known as Adderall. This mixed salt amphetamine Adderall, commonly prescribed as a treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the most commonly abused prescription stimulant among college students (Eysenbach, 2012). There are reports that show this drug being mostly abused in medical and dental schools. The high expectations and the competition there are to succeed in college, only leads to students turning to
(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.
Many people view college as an exciting journey and the next step of their life, but for one in every five people (Gonzales, Alberto et al.), their lives could be affected by sexual assault in a five year stay. Sexual assault is prominent on college campuses and unfortunately, the majority of these crimes are unreported. With the use of alcohol, college campuses have a harder time with sexual assault cases since one or both parties are unaware of what is actually happening. Since many schools have
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
Previous research has suggested that, at least half of all students who drop out of college do so during their first year in college (Noel, 1985; Terenzini, 1986).According to Blanc, Debuhr, and Martin (1983) many of these students leave during the first six to eight weeks of their first semester and approximately one third of first-year students fail to enrol for their second year due to difficulties with the transition to college (Upcraft, 1995). These statistics have remained unchanged in recent