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For my third assignment, I'm doing a project on whether or not college students take their education as seriously as they should. The results were really interesting. My partner and I went around and asked four freshman, four seniors, four professors, and we wanted four international students. When doing this, we found that international students were impossible to find. We stopped at the Intercultural Center three times on different parts of the week. We couldn't find one. Because the video needed to be edited, we just interviewed the advisor of the international students to speak on their behalf. This was interesting because it shows how not diverse we really are. There are 102 international students on campus, which seems like a significant amount. On the contrary, when you measure it up to the 4,000 undergrads, it doesnt seem as significant. Out of 102, you would think that you'd find at least one in the building. None were to be found. That was really interesting to me. I'd like to know why this happened. Maybe they are all involved? Maybe they were all in class? It was interesting.
The results to the questions were more or less what we expected. Freshman gave varied reasons as to why they were here. Seniors gave these same reasons, but talked about how they realized it at college and not before. Professors thought that Freshman don't know why they're here, but realize it to some extent before they graduate. International advisor thought that international students had a better sense of why they were here because this is a unique chance for them. I agree with these results because I know that it is more or less expected of students to go to college. In other countries, college is a prestigious thing and so the international students feel accomplished. On the way back to the dorm from cheerleading, my friend and I were talking about this subject. She is a business major, and wants to go to get her masters in that. I talked about how I want to go to law school. She mentioned how these days, getting your masters is the equivalent to our parents bachelor's diploma. By the time we're out of grad school, the competition is going to be that much harder for jobs. With the new students coming out, we're going to have to fight for our jobs. We believe that in our fields, having a bachelor's degree won't be enough. Law school isn't something I really want to do, it's something thats needed. Who wants to spend another $100,000? But it's money that will ensure me a comfortable life. I thought this was really interesting.