Roommate College Essays Samples For Students

INTRODUCTION

The world is composed of numerous people with different types of behaviors. In a normal setting, people can meet different characters that from time to time. It is, thus, important for a person to know how to deal with different stereotypes that exist in the society in order to survive. Negative stereotypes are thus dangerous in human development and individuals can be affected permanently by the stereotype that they grew with about them in the society. Just like there are different species with different habits, stereotypes also have different habits that can be good or bad depending on the ...

Every year, legions of new college students descend on their campuses, many destined for at least one year in a dormitory. Some colleges match roommates at random, refusing to reveal the identities of the pair to each other until they arrive at school, while others allow incoming students to choose their first-year roommates and decide to live together. Those schools that force randomized matching of roommates also have a minimum amount of time that you must wait to request a new roommate, as so many people encounter culture shock when they come to a new school and run into people with different ethics ...

Luke was humming some catchy tune as he was leaning against the kitchen counter and making grilled cheese. He opened the fridge to get a milk carton, then took two glasses from the kitchen drawer and put them on the table. He poured some milk in both, leveling his head with the glasses and squinting his eyes as he made sure the milk was poured at exactly the same level in both glasses, trying not to spill a drop on the table which he had cleaned to the perfect whiteness prior.
Glenn walked into the kitchen and stopped at the ...

Introduction

Operant conditioning is a concept developed by B.F Skinner. He defined it as behavior adjustments resulting either from greater or lesser negative or positive reinforcements and punishments. Our lives are actually dictated by operant conditioning. It has wide range of application and modification of people’s behavior either at work place, school or at home. Primary and secondary reinforces plays major part in operant conditioning. Before you pick out a reinforcer, it is important that you consider the person receiving that reinforcer.
Considering your roommate’s incident, I have developed a program to adjust his eating and lazy behavior which is ...

Some people are annoyed from their roommate and they want to get revenge on them by annoying them. For example, some roommate take your stuff without telling you or do not wash their dishes after using. I have found four ways to annoy your roommate, which are unplug the internet or change the password, turn up the volume, cook something smells bad, and have your friends over often.
Unplugging the internet or changing the Wi-Fi password is a surefire way to get your roommates angry. Not only are they locked out from completing their coursework and any tests or ...

Part 1: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Self fulfilling prophecy can be defined as any negative or positive expectation about circumstances, people, or events that can affect a person’s way of life or behaviour toward them in a manner that makes the expectations be achieved.
On my first day in college, my roommate expected to find a very jovial and talkative person in campus. When we were allocated rooms in University, I had some hard time while learning the new environment. I remember very well while my roommate together with the other friend tried to judge that fact that I was silent. However, that was not the ...

Introduction

Moby Dick is considered the great American novel. There are many reasons Moby Dick has earned this award, from the accolades of English critics in Melville’s day to the positive commentary by Literary critics and theorists today. Melville was a master of sentence style, and wrote many complex and highly structured sentences in the novel. Likewise, he filled his text with allusions and references to the greatest works of literature, including the Bible, Paradise Lost, King Lear, and the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. While all of these elements contribute to the greatness of Moby Dick they are ...

Between the year 1972 and 1992, renowned photographer Nan Goldin produced a compilation of photographs that featured an epic sequence of drag queens who frequented a bar in Houston known as the Other Side. There are scenes of men who are dressed as women and portrayed to being in the most intimate and private moments of their ecstasy; getting dressed, putting on make-up and talking on the phone. These are the documented clique of photographs of highly saturated quality that illustrates the unconventional lifestyles of transsexuals and drag queen as portrayed by Nan Goldin. In light of this analysis, it is ...

It is stated that Budhism was born in Sarnath which is near Varanasi city in the country of India. There were not many followers then and only 5 were present at the time of its birth. From that point, Budhism started spreading far and wide to many lands and as of today, there are over 600 million followers of Budhism. Through the use of universal love and compassion as the only weapon, the dhammadutas spread the dhamma to many parts in India and the world with no disturbance of the religions that already existed.
The founder of budhism the ...

I became a special agent 20 years before the great computer crash. Before I met young Adam Daley. Things were simpler then. Our lives were not controlled by codes and algorithms. People visited each other when they wanted to talk and we all didn't mind sending letters. Then came the twitter world and everything changed. This brings me back to the time, I decided to become an agent of the state. I wanted to dedicate my life to serving the nation. I wanted to keep people safe. Growing up, I never felt safe and I did not want anyone ...

The three kinds of friendship

Indeed, Aristotle devoted a lot of thought and time to the friendship question. He proposed three kinds of friendship and described how they were significant in life. Firstly, he looks at friendship of utility. He described that it only existed between one and another individual who is important to the other in a way (Kelly, 2010). For example, one can be friendly to a roommate mainly because he pays for all the bills in the house. Aristotle describes this friendship as shallow and one that can be easily broken because it is dependent on what one party brings to the table. This ...

The term age group is commonly used in the social environment to analyze the time series of the people living in the community. In understanding this term, it is important to make a definition of the word age. Age is an indication of the number of years that a person has lived from the time he or she was born to the present time (Martin 10). It can also be used to show the period of time within which certain economic and political activities took place. From the definition of age, we can argue that an age group is a collection of ...

Learning allows our brains to record and preserve beneficial behaviors and know how to avoid harmful ones. The consequences of the experiences we have or observe are stored in our memory as knowledge to influence our future behavior. The paper explores behavior change through a focus on the learning theories; classical and operant conditioning.

Operant Conditioning

It is a form of learning in which the response to a voluntary behavior influences whether or not the behavior will recur; this occurs through the use of reinforcements and punishment. Following the experiments of B. F. Skinner, we can conclude that a person or ...

The single story has become a quite obvious thing in the media, in people's understanding and in history. I was not at all shocked with the introduction of the single story. Why is the single story always told? This is the question that clicked in my mind. Well, I presume that it is because it makes the most headlines and most impact especially when it come stop some countries. Furthermore, some of the countries are better told in a single story since they are considered inferior to others. Why is the West regarded as more superior to other countries ...

Part 1: Reflections

During my previous semester, I had a Chinese roommate. As we were good friends, she took me to meet her father in a restaurant for lunch. I am an American, so the cultural difference presented a challenge that made the encounter a bit stressful.
In Chinese Culture, maintaining eye contact with the elderly is considered rude and disrespectful. Also, touching with strangers, in any way is considered overly intimate and wrong. Pointing towards a Chinese is also viewed as a rude behavior, which is why they nod to show acknowledgement. On the contrary, the American culture views the same ...

Personal finance plan

I am a college student pursuing my first degree in a public university. I live off-campus with a friend where we pay 100 dollars per month for rent. The rent is split between both of us. Therefore, I pay 50 dollars per month.
One of the major short term goals I have is to graduate. I plan to graduate in the next one year. My other short term goal is to enroll in a master’s program within a year of graduating. Enrolling in a master’s program will require me to work as I study since I will ...

John Nash, the main character of the movie A beautiful mind (2001), exhibits peculiar behavior that can be at first considered an inherent part of his talented, creative, yet odd personality. Such behavior includes clumsiness, social awkwardness, pride in oneself that borders with vanity and uncontrolled, erratic movements. However, later the viewer gets to understand that John sees hallucinations, believes in working for, and then being persecuted by, a secret agency, as well as believes in his own superiority over other people (A beautiful mind, 2001). John’s erratic movements can be considered as disorganized behavior (Huffman, 2012, p. ...

Once a person steps into college, one of the first questions in their mind is- should I live on campus or should I live at home? Students are often confronted with this question when getting into college and they remain doubtful of their decisions. Moreover whomever they question carries a different opinion as everyone shares a personal point of view respective of his or her experiences. However, living in the dorm and living at home has certain similarities and differences coupled with certain advantages and disadvantages, knowing of which can help the student make an informed decision.
Living on ...

Twelve Step Program

Twelve step programs refer to groups that function by a twelve step principle geared towards the accomplishment of a set goal in fighting drug addictions, alcoholism and compulsions. They are usually set up for recovery purposes. They are both voluntary and free and have been proven to be very effective over the years. The most popular twelve step program is the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) (12 step Groups, 2015).It is the base where all other recovery programs are set and it was the first to come up and draft out the twelve steps for programs. Alcoholic’s Anonymous program ...

Introduction

Scrabble is a game using words, in which players normally score points merely by placing tile, each baring a specific letter, onto a playing / game board which is standard divided into a 15 by 5 grid of squares. Much less is known of the exact number of players of scrabble there are in the world, majorly because it lacks a big enough body in the world, compared to FIFA for instance in the case of football, which can organize its various functions and tournaments all over the world and help in making even an estimate. On top of that, the estimated number of ...

‘Instructor’s name’

‘Subject’
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a novel written by Junot Diaz, which deals with the romantic quest of its protagonist Oscar, a Dominican immigrant living in the US. The story is strewn with a multitude of themes like racism, otherness, autocracy, violence, sex obsession, and Dominic Diaspora. This essay is an attempt to explore the theme of gender roles as depicted by the story, and analyze how the different characters of the story are affected by the gender stereotyping of the society.
Junot Diaz, first burst into the ...

Communication

Introduction
When I met the man of my life at Ankara two years ago, we moved quite swiftly through the first two stages of relationship outlined by Knapp (Roux, n.d.). I had met him in a friend’s place. We greeted each other formally, but our eyes did not leave each other. The Initiation Phase lasted all of five minutes, and I was left all agog, thinking about this person. Over the next few months, we met at get-togethers at friends’ places and got to know more about each other. Our Experimenting Phase finished when we knew enough about ...

Introduction

Education has become the main thing for any person all over the word. The most sort form of education is college education, where each and every student is striving to be a college graduate. When it comes to employment, most of the employers consider the education background of an individual, to enable them secure a slot in their companies. These, among many other factors, are some of the reasons why college education has been made to be compulsory among students and their families, and the general public, in the present generation. This thinking or ideas brings with it pressure especially on ...

When people come first time to the USA they often get shocked. American people try to have an eye-contact with you, they smile, and you hear all the time their famous ‘have a nice day!’ According to all of that, American people seem friendly. Why this is so as it is? There could be different reasons and one of them is a wide-open space of the continent, or a need in communication. Or perhaps that derives from the culture that has always welcomed immigrants and rejected the deference of class. Maybe they are really friendly, or maybe that is just a mask covering a ...

Ethics refers to the principals or standards of human conduct that can be used by an individual to make decisions between alternative courses of action. Ethical choices occur in all lifestyles and typically involve a conflict where one person or group benefits at the expense of another. Business, for example, is often confronted with the decision to utilize new technology to reduce its workforce and thereby raise its profits to benefit its shareholders, at the expense of eliminating the jobs of loyal employees whom have been with the company for many years. One could make an argument for either course ...

Everyone has at least one television program they just can not miss. We as

viewers live vicariously through these fictional characters, as if reality is not exciting

enough. Television has something for everyone--from the mind-numbing comatose reality

shows (gak) to mind-challenging characters as in “The Big Bang Theory.”

Big Bang, as it is known to faithful followers who call themselves “Bangers,”

consists of four nerdy guys who teach at Cal Tech in Pasadena, California, and their

Nebraska-transplant neighbor Penny, a would-be actress who works at the Cheesecake

Factory until she gets her big break. Sheldon, Leonard, and Raj all have ...

Every day is filled with communication. We are human being and we have a basic need for interacting with other people (according to Maslow as well as other scientists). We do it every day. Today was no different for me. My morning as usually started with a simple conversation with my roommate. The cloths and the atmosphere was very loose and casual. In this kind of atmosphere I think I’m completely relaxed as I know I’m not being judged. My roommate is a close friend of mine and she is always ready to listen to me, no matter what I ...

My inspiriting thoughts

Each event that happens in a person’s life leaves some significant impact that helps him or her in future when subjected to a similar situation. However minor a situation might seem to be, there is always a consequence, whether positive or negative, in the lives of the people who experience it or are otherwise affected by the occasion. This, I have to admit from the outset otherwise my narration of a significant occasion in my life will not make an impact. I could argue that the situation I found myself in at this particular time was quite embarrassing but I later realized that ...