Skip to main content

What is your definition of a college environment?

What an interesting question! I would have to say that the college environment incorporates all external factors related to attending college. This means that the environment is not only the physical space of attending college, such as dormitory rooms and the campus green, but the social and biological factors as well. The social environment of college is quite different from anything a student is likely to have experienced before or ever will experience again. College students are typically young adults exercising new-found independence and liberties. Lots of people try to "figure out" who they are during college by trying new hobbies, attending social events, and testing the boundaries they had previously set for themselves. Compared to primary schooling, the social bubble of college life is much larger, yet still somewhat enclosed. 


In terms of the biology of college life, many changes may happen at this time! Personally, I've observed that many people come down with difficult illnesses like the flu during their first year of college. This is in part because of the sheer numbers of people who visit college campuses every day, but also influenced by the stress university life can put on a person's body. Students who have not yet learned to cook for themselves may choose to eat at the campus dining hall, which might offer everything from fast food to home-style meals to fruit smoothies. For most students, their typical diet before college and the diet during college are radically different. Many students have to compromise between time, effort, and nutrition when it comes to making decisions about what to eat.


The college environment isn't limited to just the physical grounds where the school sits, because a student who is enrolled in college may extend the environment to any place they go. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Is there a word/phrase for "unperformant"?

As a software engineer, I need to sometimes describe a piece of code as something that lacks performance or was not written with performance in mind. Example: This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. Based on my Google searches, this isn't a real word. What is the correct way to describe this? EDIT My usage of "performance" here is in regard to speed and efficiency. For example, the better the performance of code the faster the application runs. My question and example target the negative definition, which is in reference to preventing inefficient coding practices. Answer This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. In my opinion, reads more easily as: This coding style leads to unmaintainable and poorly performing code. The key to well-written documentation and reports lies in ease of understanding. Adding poorly understood words such as performant decreases that ease. In addressing the use of such a poorly ...
Post a Comment
Read more

A man has a garden measuring 84 meters by 56 meters. He divides it into the minimum number of square plots. What is the length of the square plots?

We wish to divide this man's garden into the minimum number of square plots possible. A square has all four sides with the same length.Our garden is a rectangle, so the answer is clearly not 1 square plot. If we choose the wrong length for our squares, we may end up with missing holes or we may not be able to fit our squares inside the garden. So we have 84 meters in one direction and 56 meters in the other direction. When we start dividing the garden in square plots, we are "filling" those lengths in their respective directions. At each direction, there must be an integer number of squares (otherwise, we get holes or we leave the garden), so that all the square plots fill up the garden nicely. Thus, our job here is to find the greatest common divisor of 84 and 56. For this, we prime factor both of them: `56 = 2*2*2*7` `84 = 2*2*3*7` We can see that the prime factors and multiplicities in common are `2*2*7 = 28` . This is the desired length of the square plots. If you wi...
Post a Comment
Read more

What warning does Chuchundra issue to Rikki?

Chuchundra, the sniveling, fearful muskrat who creeps around walls because he is too terrified to go into the center of a room, meets Rikki in the middle of the night. He insults Rikki by begging him not to kill him. He then insults him by suggesting that Nag might mistake Chuchundra for Rikki. He says, "Those who kill snakes get killed by snakes."  He issues this warning to Rikki not to help keep Rikki safe but as a way of explaining why Rikki's presence gives him, Chuchundra, more reason to fear.  Chuchundra starts to tell Rikki what Chua the rat told him--but breaks it off when he realizes he might be overheard by Nag. He says, "Nag is everywhere, Rikki-Tikki." Rikki threatens to bite Chuchundra to get him to talk. Even then, Chuchundra won't overtly reveal any information. But he does say, "Can't you hear, Rikki-Tikki?" This is enough of a clue for the clever mongoose. He listens carefully and can just make out the "faintest scratch-s...
Post a Comment
Read more