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Course: College admissions > Unit 1
Lesson 2: Importance of college- The college experience
- Student story: College increases confidence
- Student story: College expands opportunities
- Student story: College offers exposure to diversity
- Student story: College brings new friends, learning, and freedom
- Financial costs and benefits of college
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Student story: College offers exposure to diversity
The student discusses their eye-opening journey at a historically black college. Originally from a predominantly white community, they discovered the rich diversity within the black community. This experience shattered stereotypes and taught them the value of appreciating diversity.
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- Why should I intern? wouldn't it be more beneficial to me to get a regular paying job while I get experience?(4 votes)
- Internships will be offered in your field of study, they'll be flexible, and will also offer you credits towards graduating in some cases. So, while a regular job might be important to earn money, an internship will be extremely valuable when it comes to getting hired later in the field or industry you want.
Consider you're a hiring manager at an airport, and you're looking for a new lower-level manager. You have two applicants:. One worked at the grocery store as a cashier over the summer after graduation. The other spent the summer interning at LaGuardia gaining real-world experience at managing an airport.
Both may have degrees in Aviation Management, but the latter has already demonstrated that they have relevant work experience in the industry. You won't need to train them at all.
It's also worth noting that many companies end up hiring previous interns right away! You might intern for the semester, graduate with your degree, and immediately get hired. It puts your foot in the door already.
So these are things to consider whether or not an internship is right for you.(7 votes)
- There is a lot of diversity in college. However, why are the majority of students in most colleges white? I thought white people would have a disadvantage because colleges say they want a variety of races? (I don't mean to offend anyone. Just a question).(0 votes)
- Because approximately 60% of America is Caucasian. Since many Hispanic and African-American people are low-income, and there IS a large percentage of Caucasian (including a lot of the middle-class), it would make sense that the majority of college students are Caucasian.(15 votes)
- This person kinda makes me relize that there is still segregation going on. And that we dont realize it, like when she says "... I'm from a genrally white area.." Whats that supposed to mean?(4 votes)
- Should I make friends in college or focus on myself.(1 vote)
- You should make friends wherever you are in life: in college, in middle school, at the grocery store, on the team, at church, on an airplane, or wherever. Make friends, and hold onto them.(2 votes)
- Are the friends you meet in college will be your life long friends?(1 vote)
- Some might become so, and others might not. Partly it depends on the degree to which YOU, yourself, maintain the connection. I regret letting too many of my own college connections wither away.(1 vote)
Video transcript
- So from
my personal perspective, I go to a historically black college, and so being from Palo Alto, California, a predominately white area, I thought that being
black meant one thing, you know, that stereotypical idea. And so when I went to college and I'm surrounded by
all these black people, I'm realizing that, you
know, everybody's different. So there's Hatians, there's
African-American people, there's people that are from the diaspora, and I like that it challenged my ignorance and it made me be open to other people and not stereotyping people, or not thinking that all
people are one thing. So college really opened my eyes to different types of people, and now even when I go,
when I come back home, start a new job, I'm
trying to be open to people just because I learned that in college. That's really what gets you by.