1) Research Rationale
According to Franklin Delano Roosevelt “The only thing to fear is fear itself.” Going to college is not only one of the happiest moments in life, but it also strikes fear into many students. Colleges and universities offer many attributes to draw a student into their institution. However, fear may determine whether they enroll in a university close to home or keep them from enrolling at all. Fears such as leaving home, liking roommates, peer pressure, safety, and covering costs are just a few of the many that can handicap students from what they can and will do. Fear does its job by trying to stop us, but we have to do our job and conquer it valiantly.
As a teenager at this pivotal point in life I am facing the same fears. Therefore, I am ecstatic to share the knowledge and skills necessary to overcome the fears of going to college. This research will not only help me to become relieved, stress free, and comfortable-it will also provide other students a solution to what they thought could never be fixed. Fear is a mind game; once you control and flush the mind, fear has no chance. With this research, it will show that fear cannot overpower the mind of any one person.
2) What I Already Know
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Coming to college as an adult, we have many expectations and preconceptions of what college will or will not be. The expectations we have can influence our college life for the better or the worse. My experience since starting college has been an interesting one. People have misconceptions about college because they do not know what to expect. After doing some research, I have concluded that there are three major factors that are often misunderstood about college life. The first is the financial aspect of college. Second, is the relationship between the professors and students. Third is time management. These three factors play an important role in why people are afraid to go down the path to college.
In the essay, “The Student Fear Factor’’, Rebecca Cox , I will be writing about on how one of the students that relates to me on her personal life experiences. Some college students find strategies to manage their fear on their first year of college because they feel nervous about on how are they going to do at college. College students feel sometimes they have concerns about not reaching their goals in life , not passing their courses, or afraid of life. The student that relate to me was Melanie because she recent graduate from high school and she enrolled in college. Melanie was a college student that attended at Lake shore community college. Melanie and I have similar situations that she went
Have you ever wonder how it is on the first day of college? Looking confused and anxious? "In the Student Fear Factor," by Rebecca D Cox. She describes how students feared when entering college and how their experience was. Cox discusses how students fear about having essay after an essay and say how students feel unprepared for the college experiences. Having fear isn't going to help them achieve their goals it's just going to make them fail. Majority of the students' stress about how the homework can be and the professors are. In the fear factors the students learned to managed their fears after talking about their pass and how it was to live that bad experience of college.
In the essay, “The Student Fear Factor’’, Rebecca Cox , I will be writing about on how one of the students that relates to me on her personal life experiences. Some college students find strategies to manage their fear on their first year of college because they feel nervous about on how are they going to do at college. College students feel sometimes they have concerns about not reaching their goals in life , not passing their courses, or afraid of life. The student that relate to me was Melanie because she recent graduate from high school and she enrolled in college. Melanie was a college student that attended at Lake shore community college. Melanie and I have similar situations that she went through her life. She was a full-time student and had four courses that was taken at her college. Melanie and I have both in common that attended a community college , taking for course , recent graduated from high school, and first semester of college.
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In this essay I will talk about “The Student Fear Factor,” by Rebecca Cox, In the passage she talks about first time college students, and what they experience in their first year of college. I will be choosing a student from the essay, and explain what they encounter. I will also explain how I can relate to them. Rebecca cox talks about first time college students and how they find their first year of college really stressful.
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