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Campus News College Paper TAKE A COPY | FOLLOW US @CAMPUS_NEWS | VISIT WWW.CCCNEWS.INFO CAMPUSV NEWS College Paper Volume 16, Issue 4 FREE! IT’S COLD OUT! MID-WINTER 2017-18 To intern or not to intern... To intern or not to intern? It’s a pretty serious question for a com - munity college student. Then the next question is, should you insist on being paid? Let’s break down all the possibilities, and leave it for you to decide. IN THE PLAYOFFS 6 What Is an Internship? An internship is a paid or un - paid work opportunity at an out - side employer, usually done for IT’S NEW TO YOU! 22 credit (but not always), that is re - lated to your major course of study and should give you a taste of what to expect when you grad - uate and enter the white-collar work world. Some students do an THE COURTS 19 internship and realize they don’t like this field, saving themselves valuable time as they can now place where they had interned Your Internship Office alter their pursuits; others make after graduation. Internships professional connections and may Community colleges usually help bolster your resume. ON GRAMMAR 30 even land a full-time job at the continued on page 5 Mid-year checklist Spring courses were just posted mum credits, giving you some online. Now what? scheduling wiggle room in the Here ’s our list of things you weeks ahead? Now, if you are only should do this winter break – be - sporting a 2.0 GPA, you may not fore you get swept up by too much want to take 18, but if you ’re oth - holiday cheer – to save time and erwise academically strong, con - lots of money. sider 15-18 credits. To graduate on time, you need to average 15 cred - its a semester. You may want to try Sign Up for 15-18 the occasional 18-credit semester In most states, 12 credits costs so that your final year will be eas - the same as 18 credits (though ier. Also, by signing up for 18, you extra fees and book costs could add up). Why not sign up for the maxi - continued on page 2 Checklist (cont.) lock in your courses, guaran - On Renting teeing your seat. You could al - Remember, if you are rent - ways drop a course later. ing, you can ’t order the book too soon; else, you will have to ship Think of Your Sanity it back sooner, maybe before the semester ends. Also, re - Don ’t schedule a 9 a.m. class member to send back the books in the same day as a 6 to 9 p.m. you had rented previously, to class, and don ’t schedule a class avoid late fees. “Renting might at 7:30 a.m. the next morning seem the obvious choice be - after having had a late-night cause of the price, ” Manns says. class the night before. Know “But that ’s not always the case. your limitations and plan ac - When you look a little deeper, cordingly. you could find you ’d be better off buying the book and selling Contact Your Transfer it later. ” College Are you thinking of transfer - On Access Codes ring to a four-year college next You may want to see if the year? Then copy-paste and book your professor requires email your proposed schedule has an access code. If so, you to the transfer counselor at may want to email the profes - your future school and make sor and ask if he actually uses sure all your spring credits will the online aspect of the text. be accepted there. You may Many do not. If that is the case, also want to place a phone call you can save a ton on books by there! If your goal is simply to buying them used. If the course transfer your community col - does use the access code, you lege credits to a new school, can still buy the used book and then don ’t get bogged down then buy the access code from with the courses that won ’t the publisher – or some enter - transfer. prising student at another school may sell you his access Check Out Your College code. Check online! Book Site By law, college web sites Ask Your Librarian have to post the textbooks each Once you know which books course will require, with exact you will be required to read, ISBN. You can maybe ask for contact the college library and these books for holiday pres - ask if they will stock those ents from parents and rela - books. Libraries take requests tives. At the very least, starting When tr ansf er students dr eam big, very seriously and may oblige. early and checking out the var - Then, the books will be there everything we aoner yis tgehariend tgo e ncricah nyo uhr eaxpepriepncee nan.d prepare you to ious textbook web sites will for free. pFruormsu eo uyro iunrt oenwtnio bniagl ldyr semamal.l Wclaitshs ense taorl yth 6e0 s uknilldse orfg oraudr ueaxtcee allnendt g fraacduultay t,e give you a heads up on the best degrees in business, education, and the arts and sciences, and among the prices. “It ’s no wonder that col - most diverse, dynamic student bodies in the nation, we provide a solid leges and students need to Read the Books in Ad - educational foundation so you have the condence in your own abilities to suc ceed at whate ver you choose to undertak e — think outside the box when it vance comes to textbooks; they repre - There ’s a lot of time between to own your future. sent a staggering cost that just Fall finals and the start of seems to get worse, ” says Chris Contact us at: (516) 8 76-32 00 or classes in the Spring. Once you www .oldwestbury .edu Manns of the price comparison get your books, read them. websites CheapestText- Then, once the class starts, you books.com and Text - will be ahead of everyone else! bookRentals.com. Learn to read for pleasure Kaylee Johnson Times bestseller lists and book pieces of writing. Campus News reviews if you do not know As a future elemen - where to start; the bookstore tary school teacher, I It’s easy to get enveloped into does not have to be a nerve- try understand the the world of “Stranger Things” wracking place. Also, do not be complexity of learning or “This Is Us” over holiday afraid to ask for help. Librari - disabilities. If you break, but when spring semester ans, bookstore workers, and lit - struggle with reading begins you should be able to list erature professors can help you comprehension or at - some intellectual activities you find your genre based on your fa - tention, I recommend you are acquiring. It’s the kind of had engaged in. I will admit that vorite books, movies, and televi - audio books. In fact, sometimes knowledge you can’t acquire sometimes it is hard for me, as sion series. audio books are better, espe - from television or movies. If you an avid reader, to wrap my mind Once you find books you enjoy cially if the author reads them! want to dive in, here are five of around the fact that some people you have to train yourself to fin - Audio books can also be benefi - my favorite books: do not enjoy reading. I’ve talked ish the books, and read at a cial to education students, be - 1. “The Great Gatsby” by F. to middle-aged adults who claim steady rate. During holiday break cause they teach you how to read Scott Fitzgerald they have not read a book since you should try to read for thirty aloud, and when to take breaths. high school; a claim like this per - 2. “Commonwealth” by Ann minutes to one hour a day. Here’s Once you start reading this plexes me, because reading has another tip, if you do not enjoy a Patchett so many wonderful benefits. holiday season, you can’t judge book within your first few days of 3. “On the Road” by Jack Often, when I hear people say yourself. If you see an unfamil - reading it, put it down. I would iar word, look it up. If you feel Kerouac they don’t enjoy reading, I want not recommend this to people bored while reading, stop and 4. “The Girl in Cabin 10” by to tell them that they are read - who have been reading a long ing the wrong genre, or that one come back to it. After you unlock Ruth Ware time, but when you are trying to the door to joy reading you will dud does not define the wide va - 5. “The Zookeeper’s Wife” learn how to read for joy, it is bet - forever be enchanted and sur - riety of wonderful novels, plays, by Diane Ackerman ter to stick to books that you want prised by all the new knowledge prose, short stories, and poems to breeze through. available online, in bookstores, and in libraries. You should feel proud when you find yourself willingly I think aversions to reading walking around a bookstore, start in high school, when stu - searching for your next great Win ter net dents start reading incredibly d read. Plus, once you become an difficult and outdated plays and avid reader your vocabulary Ma ke up - Ca tch up - Get Ahea d novels. Shakespearian language will grow and you will become intimidates teens that are al - a better speller. Personally, I ready on the fence about read - view reading as an escape from Earn 3 C redits in 3 W eeks! ONLIN E CL ASSES IN: ing.
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