Adverse Effects of Education

In the article The Perils of Higher Education, Kolter focuses on four unhealthy habits that typical college students partake in. The four unhealthy habits are, sleep deprivation, unhealthy diet, smoking, and excessive alcohol. This discussion will focus on one of the four unhealthy habits, which will be unhealthy diet. I choose to focus on unhealthy diet because it is the one I most relate to. According to the Kolter eating foods high in fats/sugars affects the student’s ability to learn and remember new information (Kolter 2005). Furthermore, having an unhealthy diet may also cause many neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (Kolter 2005).

Making it through hard times is challenging but worth it at the end. “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret to success.” - Swami Sivananda

Life is a journey filled of many surprises, and while one day you will lose 5 bucks, the other day you will find 10. Whether you broke your leg, you got the flu, or you got a bad grade, I believe that we can always make the best of every situation.

Sometimes in life, situations may knock you down to a breaking point of giving up. These situations can make you or break you; but whatever you chose the choice is yours. Challenging circumstances can make you feel as if the world is caving in on you. Moreover, you must learn to push through your trials and tribulations and get back up again. Life never said it would be easy, or challenging. You must continue to keep dreaming, and keep that hope alive within your heart, and strive to become a stronger solider for the next mountain that may come against you. In life, we will not always see good days. However, your good days should outweigh your bad days. As long as you have breath in your body, you will always win the battle that’s ahead of you. The story of Lolo Jones exemplifies this breaking point, and the discouragement she experienced to doubt her dreams.

trying to change or overcome obstacles can be damaging. Life is full of struggles, but it

Everyone faces struggles in their life. Some allow those struggles to help build them as a person, others let those struggles tear them down. For me, I allowed my struggles to help me develop academically and personally. Without struggle there is no progress.

Since my younger years I have been compelled to differentiate between enduring and overcoming. From my parent’s divorce, our financial instability and my multiple social dislocations, I had to learn to adapt to ever-changing environments and circumstances. Before my grandfather died he shared with me one of his favorite quotes and one that I will never forget, which says that, “the key to life is found by

In life there will be a lot of obstacles. Some obstacles just come out of nowhere, and some you may bring upon yourself. But without struggle you will not learn how to take care of yourself. Life is not always fare, you have to take the good with the bad. Be strong and keep moving. You will get there eventually if you stay focused.

“No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.” - unknown Struggle is something that everyone on the face of this planet must face at one point or another. Even though struggles are challenging and sometimes bad things that happen to us, we should choose to embrace them. Everytime we make it through something bad, we come out wiser and stronger than ever before.

Willa Cather once said, “The end is nothing; the road is all.” It doesn't matter how things turn out, it's the journey that really matters. That's where you learn the most and are able to grow as a person. I agree with and respect this quote, because it reaches out to those who may be going through a rough time and are in need of comfort. This quotes shows us that through rocky times with ourselves, others, or life in general, that what matters most is not the result, but the road taken to where we are now.

The possibilities are endless, but every person you meet is fighting their own hard battle. That girl at school, her parents are both fighting to pay the bills, she doesn’t have money to buy cute clothes.

The biggest struggle in our lives, is life itself. We struggle to survive today, so we can fight tomorrow, and thrive the next day. This is why our lives are so valuable to us, why we cannot throw it away easily, and why we fight to preserve it. If life could just be given and taken away without any consequence and effort, if it were just a mere “cake walk” it would have no value what so ever.

Remember that scary, grotesque, evil monster we were all scared of when we were younger? Well, it's alive, we just can't see it, and it's called technology. As we all know, technology is changing and evolving every day; but it's almost as if the technology is taking over the minds of our future generation. Schools are incorporating technology into learning more and more all the time. Every month there is a new phone, tablet, television, laptop and even thousands of websites. These devices can come in handy and can be helpful, but they almost are consuming everyone's mind and minimizing critical thinking. Many of technology users are children or young adults. Although the use of technology in education can have some positive results, it has more negative effects that are affecting students.

struggle is never resolved, others take most of a lifetime. For a lucky few, they are

It has been said that life can never be carried out and truly lived to its fullest unless there has been some sort of suffering and pain. Mistakes are to be learned from, and a hard past can only result in a stronger present. Though many might find themselves alone in their misery the truth is they are not, everyone has struggles. We all have our ups and downs, but it is how we react to them that truly matters. Life is life and no matter what, giving up on lifelong dreams and aspirations because of a few bumps in the road should never be an option.