The college years are the best time in a person’s life. Agree or disagree?

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The college years are the best time in a person’s life. Agree or disagree?

What's the prime time in your life? Ask ten people and you will probably receive ten distinct answers. To name but a few, childhood, teenage years, college years or even retirement. In my opinion, however, college years are definitely worth the title of "prime time".

Perhaps the most crucial role college years play in our lives is to help us set a determined goal of the future. It is misfortunate but true that most teenagers enter college without a real purpose in their mind. However, entering the university does not indicate the achievement of the ultimate goal. It is in the college years that students learn to develop their true interests, talents, and hopefully set a goal for their career path. Take myself for example. Like many teenagers, I have nothing particular in mind upon entering. Through taking various general courses, I decided to declare architecture as my major, because I gained deeper perspective of my weaks and strongs, which lay the foundation of judging a possible career.

Apart from the tremendous influence on career choosing, college has huge impacts on a student's interpersonal relationships. Compared with the real society, college resembles more of a "controlled environment", where students face less threats and obstacles from interpersonal relationships. The college years, in turn, act as a critical transitional period between the two stages. In college, we learn to communicate with people from different regions and social classes. We learn to tolerate others' religious beliefs, living habits and different races. Cases like these are rare in high schools, most of which admit students on a regional basis.

Besides daily communication with students and professors on campus, college internships also teach the students a lot. The most obvious advantage is to gain practical knowledge in a real case, which helps the students determine whether the goals they set earlier suit them or not. If so, the students learn to cope with the possible challenges laying ahead in their future career. And if not, they can make appropriate adjustments accordingly. Another significant advantage to internship is learning to cooperate with others, which essentially has nothing to do with career choice, but a desired quality of a good employee in any given field, where the students learn to work together with supervisors and peers.

To determine the future career path, to develop interpersonal skills and to acquire the fundamental quality of a good employer are the three reasons for my holding that the college years are the best time in a person's life.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, besides, but, however, if, so, apart from, for example, in my opinion

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 15.1003584229 60% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 9.8082437276 20% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 43.0788530466 63% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 52.1666666667 113% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2208.0 1977.66487455 112% => OK
No of words: 418.0 407.700716846 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28229665072 4.8611393121 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94936395504 2.67179642975 110% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 212.727598566 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.569377990431 0.524837075471 108% => OK
syllable_count: 682.2 618.680645161 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Interrogative: 2.0 0.994623655914 201% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.8639627511 48.9658058833 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.0 100.406767564 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1739130435 20.6045352989 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.82608695652 5.45110844103 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.5376344086 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.212976463272 0.236089414692 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0602379520426 0.076458572812 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0857914790311 0.0737576698707 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150466823404 0.150856017488 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.111708474217 0.0645574589148 173% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 11.7677419355 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 10.9000537634 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 86.8835125448 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 10.002688172 60% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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