When Reality Hits Book Report

Teenagers Preparing for the Real World is a book by Chad Foster. In this book, he uses personal stories to give important information and advice about life. These tips can help a person navigate the real world. Some of these tips include things about your passion, your aptitudes, and your contacts. One lesson that can be learned in Teenagers Preparing for the Real World by Chad Foster is about your passion.

Today, Carrie Hachadurian spoke with the honors college students regarding career and professional development resources available at Western Carolina University. Carrie is the student development coordinator here on campus. Initially, her job is to bring forth the available resources to students such as, student employment, interview preparation, resume builder guide, internships, and much more. Such resources can assist students in identifying a major and their career path based off of tests that focus on personality. Also, On the career and professional development webpage through WCU, students can find a professional handbook that gives tips on creating a resume. Furthermore, Kredible can assist students with improving their linked in profile by rating it and suggesting ways to improve one’s resume and gives feedback as to what employers are looking for.

The fourth and final reading of Evicted tied up the rest of the stories, and Matt Desmond reveals his reasonings for writing the book. He also reveals displays shocking stats about eviction and poverty in the United States.

Freak the mighty is a story about two young boys who both have a hard time going through life. Freak is crippled and short, and Max is tall and retarded. When they become friends, Freak rides on top of Max’s shoulders and together they are freak the mighty whom go on quests together. This book really shows how you should not judge someone by how they look, which is like the moral of the story. The character of Freak/kevin is first described as a, “crippled kid like humanoid.

Bok states, “According to one survey, 60 percent of Arts and Sciences professors do not even think that preparing for a job is a particularly important goal for undergraduates” (Derek Bok, 36). Bok is quite puzzled since about three-fourths of new college students presume preparing for a job is the key component of attending college. According to Bok, Liberal arts professors believe that once they integrate some aspect of a vocational program students will become more concentrated on learning the competent skills necessitated by the jobs. Bok also provides background information on vocational program in which he states that, “Since the average length of time people stay in their first job has shrunk dramatically, more and more employers want their employees to “hit the ground running” without having to receive costly training before the company” (Derek Bok, 39). Students are already being pressured by employers to have these skills needed for the job perfected by the time they graduate so the companies won’t spend resources on training. With the pressures employers place on the arriving college students they feel as if they have to choose a career and prepare for it as

Is being a teenager really worth it; all the stress, problems, and judgements that come with it? Society, family, and friends telling you this and that, is sometimes too much too handle. In the book, Teenagers Preparing for the Real World by Chad Foster, teenagers are given tips to deal with the stress of being a teenager. The author prepares and tells teenagers how to deal with the “real world.”

Out There tells a pensive, thought provoking and immersive story of being outdoors. In it, author Chris Townsend fleshes out his 40 year experience of climbing mountains and walking cross-country. It's the stuff that dreams are made of -- at least by travel junkies and myself.

This article mainly targets current college students who are still undecided or students who are already in a major, and it tries to convince those students to make sure they chose the “correct” career path. Not only does it target college, students but also current high school students. This article is more of a guide to help those students who

In the article in our book, “Planning Sets You Free” it gives a lot of good information on how to remain organized in your life by scheduling, setting goals, and prioritizing. It also talks about how OneNote can assist you with all of this. And you always need to plan, or else your life will end up being a stressful mess. OneNote is great for many things such as brainstorming, setting up vacations with your family, forming ideas, and probably most important for me as well as other college students, organizing our daily activities to fit in our homework. This leads to creating your ABC To-Do List.

To succeed in life, people think they need to have jobs. For good reason too, for people must have jobs to afford the necessary items like car payments, food, rent or a mortgage, etc. Unfortunately, college students do not usually learn the skills that they should know to succeed in the workforce. Some students may think that a degree will automatically obtain them a job, however, in some situations it simply serves as a minimum requirement. Even though some colleges have applicable majors that help, many colleges still have antiquated teaching techniques. I would like to present some things that colleges should improve on, and some that colleges should start doing.

“Many first-generation college students notice that their classmates are much better prepared for demanding college work than they are. As you make connections with other students in and out of class, you can also call on them for help, feedback, and advice.” (Cushman, 2006, Chapter 4)

Attending college gives the student a considerable amount of knowledge before entering their career. Pursuing a bachelor’s degree usually takes four years for the average student. During these years, students are studying all aspects and information about their future career

Every college student is concerned about his or her academic future, especially nowadays in times of the economic crisis. College students are desperate for experience that might distinguish them later from other job applicants and improve their chances of getting their

Buy ingredients for dinner party; make appointment for oil change; buy present for Jenna - these are the items on my to-do list for today. My list is an actual written list, not just things I try to keep in my head. Why would I need to write these down? After all, it 's only three things. When I write things down, it prevents me from forgetting things, reminds me what to focus on, and relieves me of the stress of having to remember things. Keeping it in my head isn 't as powerful as writing it down- a written list is like a best friend who gently reminds me what and when I should be working on things to keep me out of trouble. A written list helps me take control of my day, and it can do the same for you.

It’s amazing, the things that can happen in a second. In one second a bee can flap its wings 200 times, a human can blink their eyes seven, and a sloth can lift its finger 0. In one second 2-4 children are born on some corner of the earth, and 1-2 people will die. In one second light will cover galaxies, traveling 186,000 miles. In one second somewhere on earth 40 lightning bolts will hit the ground, 80, 120, 160. In one second somewhere in the universe 30 super novae happen, and approximately 4000 new stars are born. In this very second somewhere in the world, right now, the sun is setting in one town, and people are going to sleep, into their dreams, escaping from reality. However, at this particular second the sun is also rising