Small Size, Big Effect

Corporatization within higher education and a precursor to privatization has obviously been blooming. Nicolaus Mills states in The Corporatization of Higher Education that ranking among colleges is what defines their level of superiority. The higher the count of rejections from a particular college, the more it appears to be in demand. This pressure to get accepted and enrolled into a good school is applied to students before they even start college. Not surprisingly, this pressure stays even after students start their college careers.  This is the reason for excessive adderall use which leads to sleep deprivation within The United States. With unpolished time management skills, students procrastinate till the last minute of their to-do's and stress to get their assignments and exams completed. The adderall, although increasing focus, also increases the span of time of sleep inability. Students wind up puling all-nighters to study for exams and get their work done.  In the end, what is more beneficial? Is it the more time spent studying or more time sleeping before the exam?

Scouting the Territory

Topic change to sleep schedule alterations with the effects of adderall in college. This topic will probably interest more readers that are actual students in college because it directly pertains to them and their health. Maturity levels in college would also have been an interesting subject, but testing them would have been more complex. Maturity is more of a grey ground as opposed to sleep amounts, which are more concrete.

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This is an article that connects the relevance of education to sleep and its deprivation. I plan to find more connections with the use of adderall for educational purposes rather than for partying, like the media claims it is used for. Majority of the student friends and acquaintances I have use adderall for cramming for school related assignments and exams rather than partying. Although unhealthy in the long term, it's uses are geared toward educational improvement, which isn't something a bad student would do.

Does College Define Maturity?

 

 College was not always a necessity for success and the coming of adulthood, but it sure made it obvious that a student is on the right, mature, track if they are in college. One was viewed as an adult when they announced their enrollment in college. It defined the step needed to be taken to show maturity and the understanding of the importance of education. A college degree is still valued, but does it have the same meaning as it used to? Does one having a college degree grant one automatic admission into the "adult club"? It seems as if college students are deteriorating their IQ count, and concentrating more on entertainment. What is the reason for this, if it is in fact true? Has the meaning of college changed over the past couple of years on the subject of growing into maturity?