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Khristian Arroyo

High-schoolers. As carefree as they are, they

always seem unprepared for the real
challenges in life

and while we got the
occasional “best time of
my life” and the “easy,
no problem” responses,
we came across a few
hesitant students who
had their fair share of
https://blog.cengage.com/college-students-on-critical- challenging dilemmas.
thinking-in-the-classroom/
The feeling of being
University, a higher form unprepared or the fear
of education challenges of change and meeting
upcoming students to a new people were a

journey of experiences majority of problems
and many new faces. But students had with their
are students ready for the first year experiences.
challenges the real world They told us that if
has to offer? A survey we they were given specific
conducted from random pointers or knew
students at the University beforehand what to
of Waterloo got us expect from a
thinking. Our curiosity led university, their
us to ask them their experience would
experiences and have been better for a
difficulties they had school social life and
during their first year of their academic learning.
school,