After reading this article and reading about the movie Waiting for Superman, i feel that college today in most cases is a machine. Colleges are pumping out students with a wide verity of degrees some beneficial and many not so beneficial. I feel that college is being dumbed down alot. I have many hard classes this semester, one class i have a 30 page research paper in. Other classes require me to take a certification test. I feel that these classes are hard and have value to them in personal life and a job setting. I have also had classes that require very little. I was once asked by my parents if i was enjoying school and if it was hard. I told them that i would have liked to have gone to Pitt because i feel i would have learned more. To be honest freshmen and softmore year was very easy for me. But since i am a second semester junior i have ran out of easy classes to take. I have taken two online classes for my major and both were very hard. My major is Sport management. This is in no way an easy major. I currently manage a gym in Indiana, I use all of the information i have gained from my major classes while i work. I feel that some majors are “bullshit” to be honest. I feel that a certain amount of coasting is happening in this university along with other state schools. I feel school is what you make it. Choose harder classes. I am a A/ B student. The amount of work i do outside of class is not alot. I have been able to budget my time effectively and have a job. I feel that some people need to study more and that effects directly to their GPA.  I feel that if i do study more i will have straight A’s. I have had a few bad semesters to be honest but i think i have had four classes that i got a C in.  I feel that advisors should be working more with students. We pay to have a quality education and i feel at times i am not getting that at this state institution. 

I know that IUP offers some amazing programs, out of every state school IUP has the best Exercises science program. i was in this major but i found that i would rather be managing then being staff. I feel that it is the students responsiblity to step up and try to better themselves and the country as a whole, to do their part in society. I feel that college has been dumbed down to a point in some majors. Even thou my major is relatively new, the last 30 years. I feel that i have actually seen it grow since ive been a part of it. I am a member of two different journal publications and i like to keep up to date with the information and news coming from leaders of my industry.

I would have like to start college off with very hard classes but that is not what happend. I find it very hard to belive that only 30% of graduating highschool seniors go to a four year program. I did not find in the artilce if this was nation wide.

When researching the town I grew up in on Wikipedia I found not a lot of information. The town I grew up in is called Quakertown PA.  This town is 29 miles north of Philadelphia and has a population of 8931 when the last census was done in 2000. The town has grown a lot since the year 2000 and I feel that the population might have actually doubled since then. A school just for freshmen in high school was opened a few years ago due to the overwhelming amount of people moving to the area. Over all this town has changed a lot since I first lived there. The town used to be mostly farmland and a few factories. Farm land has turned to residential housing and most people commute to work every day to either Allentown PA or Philadelphia.

I feel that there really is not a lot of information on this town because no one really wants to live there. Basically there is nothing to do. It is a lot like Indiana in that way.  Originally, the town was actually built over swamp land and that is still an issue the town is dealing with today. To compare Indiana to Quakertown I would have to say that you have to drive over 20 miles to get any type of entertainment.  I was surprised to see so little information on the town. I feel that someone should have written more about the town and its history. What is cited on Wiki is that the liberty bell actually went through this town and was smuggled during the revolutionary war. What is not cited is that Red Coats actually made it that far and were on the tail of George Washington.

After i graduate college i would like to open my own cigar shop. I would like to write a research paper on the cigar industry or something related to that. There are many different opinions in this field, especially on how and where cigars should be kept and i feel that this would make a very interesting research paper. I might want to go into further detail and explaing my business plan.

Places                         Technologies                                          Jobs

Wal-Mart                         Cell phones                                        Telemarketer                   

GNC                                    Computers                                         Pop Star

Movie Theater                  Cars                                                    Lifeguard

Mt. Rushmore                   Banks                                                 Teacher

Carnival                                Internet                                            janitor

College                                 Money

College:

Why go to college?

What are the benefits?

What are the down sides?

How will you pay?

Who will pay?

Can you get a grant or scholarship?

How will it help you land a future career?

Can college be negative or positive?

Will you break laws you normally would uphold while at college (drinking)?

How will networking with fellow students help you?

What are the things you would do with the money if you did not go to school?

Can you afford to go?

These are all questions that can be researched privately or publicly. I feel that some of these questions are better than others. I feel that a paper can be writing using one of the above questions as a thesis.