Learning Should Never Stop

¶ … Ring There are many challenges that college students face as they transition from high school to the higher standards and level of responsibility goes up significantly. There are also things that set some students apart when it comes to what schools they do (or do not) get into as well as what scholarships they get when it comes to the same.

The author of this essay will go into detail about both of these aspects of educational and academic life as a means to justify why the author is entitled to the ring. One big adjustment that any student needs to deal with when going to college as compared to high school is that the academic prowess and dedication has to go up a lot.

The burden to get a high school diploma is a lot lower than it is to get a college degree and this is as it should be. It is true that there are remedial classes for math and English but these are only applicable and needed when the proper high school-level curriculum is not taught at the high school level or perhaps when a student is a new or recent immigrant to the United States. Another reason college can be challenging is that it can be a culture shock.

This is true in terms of the types of people that abound on the campus (both students and professors), the material that is taught in the classrooms, the viewpoints that are openly stated and so forth. Even though many high school students are adults given that they are eighteen years old, the climate is entirely different at the college level because the vast majority of the students on hand are at least 18, meaning they are all adults.

The differing viewpoints in particular can be a shock because regional high schools and the upbringing of parents can lead to a rather narrow and closed view of the world. No such protection or exclusionary methodology exists at most high schools. The author of this essay, rather than shunning this shock and change, actually embraces it. High school students are often in a bubble and they need to be removed from it.

This is necessary to truly experience and know things about cultural diversity, differences in political thought and so forth. While some new college students may remain steadfast in the values they held while growing up, there will be many more that are forced to change their views due to the new information and perspectives they are exposed to.

The author of this report holds that the author should be awarded the ring because the author is ready and willing to learn, experience and grow through what is being taught, explained and shown to the author. Rather than behave in a xenophobic or intolerant way, the author instead wishes to gain cultural competence, the ability to work and network with people of all sorts of diverse cultures and learn more of the thought patterns and worldviews that have led this planet to be where it is politically and socially.

So often, family life and the news media likes to focus on what they feel is important and they leave out a lot of details and things to learn when they do so. College life is superior in that most of them are non-profit and the incentive to sweep things under the rug or otherwise ignore the facts as they are, both past and present, is not there for most people. The author wants.