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Optimism In College Essay

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In the question, “Does your personality affects your grades?” 64% of students answered yes and 36% of students answered no. Personality is a unique and relatively stable ways in which a person thinks, feels and behaves thus, it can affect one’s grade. Students must possessed a passionate act, way, or thinking for school and learning. Therefore, these 64% of the 50 first year students are into studies that even their personality affects their grades. In the personality attitude is a branch of it therefore, if you have an attitude of being passionate in your studies thus, your personality can affect your grades. This shows that the 36% of the students of the 50 first year students are not passionate enough with their studies.

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Therefore, all of the 50 first year students of Medical Technology has this optimistic perspective in life. What is optimism? Optimism comes from the Latin word “optimus”, meaning "best," which describes how an optimistic person is always looking for the best in any situation and expecting good things to happen. Optimism is the tendency to believe, expect or hope that things will turn out well. Being optimistic in college can be considered as skill since being optimistic may lead you into success in life. According to the survey among first-year students at U.S. colleges that was conducted by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), the research arm of the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. Over 200,000 students nationwide participated in this survey and the results found record low levels of emotional health, with a feeling of being overwhelmed prior to starting college. Yet, these students also reported higher ratings of their academic ability and drive to achieve success. John H. Pryor, lead author of the survey, believes that while this drive to succeed may be contributing to their increased feelings of stress, overall these first-year college students did have a sense of optimism about their future. Just like this, these 50 first year students that we have conducted a survey are more likely to gain a high grade in a semester and pass

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