Homesickness

College is supposed to be a promising time in many students' lives. There are many experiences that we go through that helps us to grow as individuals. This is also a time where we are molded into becoming responsible adults and creating careers for ourselves. Along with many positive outcomes, there are many concerns that I am currently dealing with as an HBCU student. For example, college is very academically challenging. Being enrolled in college has shown me that I still have time management

Pelé has to assimilate when he moves from place to place. The text states, "Pelé had to make some adjustments, such as playing on artificial turf."(Buckley, 102) The turf in America is artificial which is very different from the all-natural grass in Brazil, and Pelé must assimilate to playing on artificial turf. At first he refused to play on artificial turf, because he believed that there was a fungus growing on the bottom of his foot due to the turf. The fungus was actually green paint, used to

I have done many nice thing over my 18 years of being alive. The one thing that I have done that I would consider to be my nicest thing was spending time with one of my campers at my Summer camp that I work at Over the Summer. I am a summer camp counselor at my local Boy Scout camp. I have worked there for over five years now. I have earned my Eagle Scout during my time on this camp staff. I learned many skills through this job. The one skill that I learned was the ability to work with a homesick

Finally, Morris comes to the realization that she has a touch of homesickness, and then turns to Browning’s work once again to help convey her new emotion. This time around, Browning’s work reveals that no matter what scenery is ahead, there will always be something about a previous place that will call a person home. Although Morris agreed with Browning’s previous work on freedom, she all also agrees, if not more, with this homesickness piece. Like mentioned before, traveling has shaped Morris into

Some of the obstacles I may encounter during my college career would be to be in dept., homesickness, and choosing a major. These obstacles may seem like nothing at the moment but once it happens it will be hard but not impossible to accomplish. Some obstacles are different to others because some people don’t get homesickness, or don’t have a problem choosing a major, some come from families that make enough money to pay for tuition so they don’t end up going into dept. like others. But all these

I found a love for service during my college education. My first semester at Creighton I joined the service fraternity on campus, Alpha Phi Omega, and my first service project was serving dinner at the Timberlake Outreach Center. The experience was humbling, and I left feeling rewarded, with a sense of purpose. I continued to volunteer every semester and participated in various service projects from volunteering at a home for Alzheimer’s patient to traveling around Omaha collecting food and clothes

Staying away from home in an unfamiliar environment with new people can induce homesickness in many first year students worldwide. The social pressures of fitting in and making new friends affect first year students all over the world. Students face social pressures such as partying, drinking and taking drugs. It is also challenging

intimidating and overwhelming at first. In addition to being under more pressure to perform on a larger, more competitive stage in front of a more expansive audience, they must also deal with the every day challenges that normal college freshmen face: homesickness, transitioning into a more demanding academic workload, and creating a new social network. College athletes have to have their routines extremely time focused, and make time management essential to their daily lives. Despite the many stereotypes

The symbolism in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell compares to being separated from everything you love and all that is familiar to you. The wolf itself represents loyalty, strength, independence, and freedom. The nuns offering to teach the girls how to be civilized is an offer of freedom, just as immigrants migrate in hopes of a better life and freedom from oppression. Symbolic of immigrants adopting names that sounded more American to help speed the assimilation

James Taylor’s song “Carolina in my Mind” expresses his homesickness when he is away from his childhood home in North Carolina. He uses descriptive imagery to envision himself that he is in North Carolina by seeing the sunshine and how he feels in the moonshine. Taylor is being overwhelmed of grief and homesickness that seemed to appear from nowhere, but yet be full of love and happiness when his hometown comes to mind. When Taylor writes, “Ain't it just like a friend of mine to hit me from behind