miércoles, 8 de octubre de 2008

Argumentative essay about Learning for life

Nowadays College to many people means that it is the opportunity to learn and absorb knowledge to prepare them for life, to others it means they are finally free of supervision and it is their time to have fun and enjoy themselves. Then there are those who try to combine both and either succeed or fail in order to have a balance in their life, just taken the relevant aspect that helps them to improve and be better every day.

Firstly, as a human being we all make mistakes, but the one thing that comes out of these mistakes, is we usually learn a lesson. Making errors is human nature, none of us are exempt. That is even true in habitual activities when we think are certain of our procedure to obtain a good grade in a class, but sometimes the result doesn’t show as well we want to or was not the expected, there is when we have to figure out and consider other ways to be more efficient and productive in life, applying the experience life that we are having according to look up and expand our accomplishment.

Even thought, we know that bad habits are detrimental to cognition in general. There are new studies that show drinking to excess, bad eating, and partying have devastating effects on learning and memory. College may be one of the worst possible environments to learn something and retain it.

For example, a normal person spends one third of their lives asleep. Stanford University recently surveyed undergraduates and medical students and found that 80% of them were sleep deprived. The National Sleep Foundation poll found that young adults got only 6.8 hours of sleep a night. Sleep is crucial to declarative memory which helps us.

To sum up, the cognition knowledge in students depends on the method that people use to improve their field of study, the relevant issue here is to have a balance between learning process in college life and also to have some fun, not having excess in any way because that affect the mental wealthy ,but having few extra curriculum activities that growth the analytical capacity in people ,in sequence to learn easily .That as a the same time help to get away the student from the problems and schoolwork week , giving them space to think of how things are going .