Abstract
This essay will examine the proposition of the problems faced by first year students at any university. Firstly, it will consider different studying strategies compared to high school.
Secondly, it will discuss the pressure on students especially on first year students to pass the coursework. Thirdly, homesick which diverts students attention from studies. Fourthly, the environment and peer pressure, misuse of resources and influence by peers. Fifthly, resources such as the university premises can be misused by the students. Sixthly, text book each for coursework is expensive. Books that are being sold in university book centre are expensive and cannot be afforded by most of the students. Lastly, it will claim the problem faced by students from different island nations.
University life is quite different from secondary school life. University life is full of sacrifices. Students need to devote time accordingly, so that they can pass their coursework and can pursue the next level of the studies. There are a number of challenges faced by first year university students. The challenges faced by first year university students can be in terms of academic and emotional factors, environment and peer pressure and economic factors.
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The challenges faced by first year university students are academic and emotional factors in terms of different studying strategies, pressure to get good grades and homesick. Firstly at university, there are different studying strategies compared to high school. Learning at university is mostly computerised and notes for each lecture can be accessed from the university site. For example, in secondary schools students were provided with notes by the teachers whereas in university it becomes the students’ initiative to print the notes from Moodle (USP site).
Therefore, new students find it difficult in coping with the academic studies.
Furthermore, there is a lot of pressure on students especially on the first year students to pass the coursework. Unless and until the current coursework is completed with a passing aggregate, the students can not pursue with next level of studies. For instance, students need to have a minimum of 50% in order to continue with next unit of coursework otherwise the same unit has to be done until the students get a mark which meets the criteria to continue the coursework. Thus, students are to do well in the coursework to get promoted to next level in the studies.
Additionally, homesick is another factor which drastically affects the students. It diverts students’ attention from studies. Most times students are reminded of the family members. It enables the students to lose focus from studies. For instance, university is a multicultural society, where students from different cultural background from different island nations get together. The students may either be living with the relatives or in hostels, these students sometimes get emotional and miss the family members such as a student from Tonga staying in hostel is going to get sentimental at times. Thus, it becomes a challenge for students to overcome the problem of homesick.
The challenge faced by first year university students are environment and peer pressure in terms of new environment, misuse of resources and influence by peer. Secondly, it is a new environment for the students. The environment is much more vast and advanced from what it used to be in schools. In schools, students were not finding it difficult to locate the classes because they used to be in one classroom for the whole day, whereas in university, the students have to look for rooms for tutorials and it becomes difficult. For example, students have to look for lecture rooms, labs and tutorial rooms all by themselves. Students sometimes miss the classes and tutorials and face lot of difficulties. Thus, it is very challenging for first year university students to cope with the new environment. Followed by, students get influenced by the peer members to skip classes. This is a common problem which is faced by most of the students. And if the students do not join the friends, then they will not be regarded as groovy. For instance, students skip lectures to go for movies. Students influence the peer members. Thus, overcoming the influences by the peer member is challenging.
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... Environmental and Social Challenges. Main point 1. PERSONAL CHALLENGE. Firstly, Personal challenges faced by first year students at the University may cover three challenges. Loneliness is the ... great challenge for the first year students to use the University resources economically. Universities may have different resources to help the students in their studies. Library ...
Moreover, resources such as the university premises can be misused by the students. University is a spacious place and there are some places within the premises which can be used illegally. To illustrate, students smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol and get engaged in illegal activities such as drugs. Therefore, facilities and resources are abused by students and it is difficult to keep track of each and every student.
The difficulties faced by first year university students can be in terms of expensive tuition fess, high cost of text books and increased cost of rental and transportation costs. Thirdly, tuition fees are expensive for each course. In university, different amounts of tuition fees are paid and it increases as the students pursue studies. Most students face financial difficulties to meet the tuition fee requirement. For instance, students find it difficult especially those coming from poor backgrounds and it becomes a challenge for the students to look for other alternatives such as getting student loan to pay the fees. Therefore, looking for alternatives for payment of fees is very challenging for first year university students.
Next, text book each for coursework is expensive. Books that are being sold in university book centre is expensive and can not be afforded by most of the students and most of the students look for cheaper alternatives. For example, in high schools books were included in the fees but in university students have to buy the books which are expensive otherwise look for cheaper sources such as buying the books from students. Thus, getting books from other sources is time consuming and most of the time not all the books are available from cheaper sources.
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Finally, students from different island nations find it difficult to meet the rental expenditure and those staying far away face difficulties in meeting the transportation costs. Renting a property some where close to university is expensive. For instance, students from far away pay a lot in travelling and students pay increased rate of rental expenditure such as rental property and bus fare. Thus, it is the initiative of students to overcome the difficulty of transportation costs and rental expenditure.
In conclusion, the challenges faced by first year university students can be in terms of academic and emotional factors, in terms of different studying strategies compared to high school, pressure on students to pass the coursework to continue with next level and homesick. In terms of environment and peer pressure can be new environment for the students, misuse of resources and pressure on students to skip classes. In terms of economic factors can be tuition fees are expensive, text books are expensive and high rental expenditure and transportation cost for students. It is advisable for the students to ignore disturbances and concentrate on the studies to achieve the goals. The challenges can be overcome if and only the students devote all the time on studies. In order to obtain something in life students should sacrifice luxuries.
