Throughout my teenage years, I was the embodiment of the average introvert. The pressure to succeed and become a first generation college student in my family was overwhelming, and the constant battle of not being good enough defeated me. My parents only spoke Spanish, and were unable to help me with my school assignments. As I struggled with my academics silently, my self-consciousness and insecurities grew. The fear of speaking out in public was a lingering shadow that developed more, as I grew
always ask yourself if it’s the right choice. Every day I face many instances when I need to make the right choice. The choices I make each day end up having the most control for my future. As for my future plans, I plan to become a first generation college student
When a student, whose parents or guardians did not receive a post-secondary education, completes a bachelor’s degree at a university or college, they are known as a first-generation student (Choy, 2001). For many students, becoming a first-generation student is a very significant deal not only for the student, but also for the rest of the family as well. When becoming the first student in the family to receive a post-secondary education, there is an immense amount of pressure placed on the student
that my generation will be forced to face upon entering the workforce. However, I feel one of the most important challenges we will have to overcome upon entering the workforce would be educational debt. As time progresses and American society advances, it is becoming more essential to have a college education before entering the workforce. While more of my peers are opting to go to college and earn a degree, they are also opting to acquire a substantial amount of debt in the form of student loans
Students from low-income and first generation backgrounds often struggle in different academic subjects. Subsequently, students have lower expectations for themselves when it comes to academic achievement. The majority of first generation students come from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Seeing that, families work countless hours in factories and other places where they are underpaid because of the lack of educational opportunity they experienced themselves. According to Blackwell and Pinder (2014)
First, the United States Department of Education doesn’t prepare the new generation of undergraduates for a college degree. Meet the requirement to university right after graduating high school is difficult for the students. Most undergraduates go to community college because it lot cheap and the university is further expensive to earn a degree. The tuition in state university has increased dramatically than a community college. One realistic American dreams seem a distant memory from our childhood’s
Among Stranger, states that first generation college students should receive more help than other college students because it will increase their likelihood to pursue graduate from a university and they will have a better future than their family. She discusses the struggles of her main character faces while she attends to school far away from her hometown and her academic struggles. She also conflicts with her self-identity if she has lost her ethnic origin or she is becoming her own identity. I agree
people. This new generation has been called Millennials. Millennials are people who were born between the years 1982-2000 (United States Census Bureau). And from these ideas in American culture nowadays colleges have been changing in the last hundred years. The term “coddling” has been used to describe this trend in American college culture (Lukianoff and Haidt). By definition coddling means to treat in an indulgent or overprotective way, which is what has exactly been happening on college campuses across
One topic in psychology I find particularly interesting is the amount of stress that students in this generation are subjected to, specifically while in college. There are many reasons why this topic is interesting to me. The first and obvious reason is because I myself am a college student. Therefore, I have personally experienced the tremendous amount of stress that is put on students. I have also witnessed my friends and peers cope with this stress in various ways, some of which are healthy and
College students are currently identified as fragile creatures, immature children who should be guarded against any idea that might challenge their beliefs. As a result of this protection, these students are making claims on basically any and every statement that they can, even remotely, that it offends them in some form or another. Even though the freedom of speech movement is helping college campuses become a non-discriminatory place, this movement is making no progress as a result of college students