Who can help young people learn about a job?
Anyone can help! Namely: your parents or friends, school teachers and counselors, and contacts those adults have. College websites and career planning websites can help also. You can just look all over this website to see other kids' ideas too! -Anna How do I ( students) know where to start looking for/choosing a college to apply or go to? The first step is right here! You start thinking about where you would want to be in the country, and what you would want to study. Then, you can ask us or look online or ask your teachers/counselors about what college would make sense. There are so many colleges in the US (and even just in Maine!) that you just end up hearing about random ones and researching those! -Anna
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What kind of work can be done if you are interested in sports, other than play the sport?
There are many jobs related to sports. For example, you can be a physical trainer, to help the athletes get in shape or recover after they get hurt. You can be a coach, of course! You can be a commentator, like you see and hear on ESPN. Or, you could be a sports agent. A sports agent is like the business manager for a player. Like Stephen Curry’s sports agent is the one that helps Stephen Curry get to be on Under Armour commercials, so she (or he) helps Stephen Curry make lots of money. Most sports agents go to college to study business. -Aleena B. What if you don't have a lot of money to pay for college? Fortunately, you can apply for scholarships and financial aid! Most schools offer different scholarships to help students pay for college based on merit. This means that you may have to write an essay or attend an interview or show your interest in a certain subject in order to be chosen for a scholarship. Financial aid, however, is need-based. This means that all you have to do is fill out some forms after you have applied to college. When you hear back from colleges, you will find out how much financial aid you have been awarded. A lot of colleges also have work study programs that allow you to work an on-campus job so that you can earn money while you are attending college. In the meantime, keep working hard in school so that you can have as many options as possible when it comes time to apply for college! --Julianna K. When can a student start getting ready for college? I wouldn’t worry about it much until you get to second grade. After that, you can start building good habits for learning. And, just as important, you start to develop a reputation. Teachers start to see you as someone who works hard and wants to do well. That will help you get into a lot of college and help you get a lot out of your experience in college. -- Bob S. What are good schools for Art and Drama?(nearby) Maine College of Art (MECA) has a great art program in Portland. Emerson and Boston University have great drama programs in Boston. -- Bob S. How do you know you want to do that college career? That’s a great question! Every college and every career is different, so the best college or career is the one that you think will make you happiest and interests you the most! The way to find out what college you might like or what career you might like is to do an internship or job shadow, and follow around someone for a day to see what their job is like! That way you can see if you like it too! You can ask people in the jobs you like what school they went to! It is fun to discover what you like to do, what you like to study or what you think is interesting, and then see what colleges and careers match your interests!--Kristin B. What is it like to be on an airplane? It is fun, but you definitely hope your pilot knows what he is doing. Hopefully he went to college at Embry-Riddle or the US Air Force Academy to study to be a pilot. Hopefully, on the plane you will have a window seat so you can look out the window, but sometimes airplanes can be crowded. If you go to college in California or Australia, you will definitely want to fly. -- Bob S. What do you do for a job? I talk to students about college and help them find a great college for them. -- Bob S. Where a few colleges that I can go to be a mechanic? (How many months will I have to go to school?) I suggest you look at EMCC or WCCC or MMA. That is Eastern Maine Community College, Washington County Community College, and Maine Maritime Academy, not Mixed Martial Arts. Or NASCAR Tech. Or WyoTech. Or UTI. -- Bob S. What do I have to get ready right now for a dentist? Brush your teeth. If you want to get ready to go to college to become a dentist, I would work hard in school to get good grades and do some extra projects in science. And, ask your dentist where he or she went to college. Find that out before he or she starts working on your teeth. Only let them work on your teeth if they went to a good dental school and earned their doctorate degree. University of New England has a good dental school in Maine. Tufts is very good in Massachusetts. Bob S. What do I have to do to be a: Librarian University of Maine at Augusta has a good library science program. It is in . . . you guessed it . . . Augusta. Bob S. Teacher To be a teacher, you can usually study whatever you’re interested in, or what you’re interested in teaching, for undergraduate (college). You could also study Education, which teaches you how people learn and how the education system works (super helpful!). After college, you can go to graduate school to learn more about how to teach well, or enter a teacher certification program. As soon as you have your certificate (which can be as soon as a couple months after college), you can start teaching! -Anna How many jobs did you have Bob? I had a lot of summer jobs when I was younger. Other than that, I would say I have had six jobs -- all of them in education in some way. Bob S. How many colleges do I have to go to be a marine biologist? You should certainly get a bachelor’s degree. A master’s degree would be even better. A doctorate would be great too. -- Bob S. What do you need to study to be S.W.A.T, a teacher, a nurse, a veterinarian, a builder, a mechanic, a forester? Teachers get to study lots of things! They can study teaching/education (how to be a teacher) or they can study the specific subject they want to teach (like math). -Anna How much does it cost? Some colleges cost $65,000 each year for four years; some cost $0. Some people go to colleges that cost $65,000 but they don’t pay anything. They earned scholarships. How did they do that? They worked hard to do well in school. And, you are likely to get more in financial aid (sort of like scholarships), if your parents don’t make a lot of money. Work hard today to get good grades and you can save a lot of money! $260,000! -- Bob S. How do you keep your grades up? Six letters. Begins with EF, ends with RT. You don’t have to be smart. Go to class. Pay attention in class. Do your homework and turn it in on time. And, get help when you are confused or having a hard time. Six letters. -- Bob S. Where can I learn about being physically fit? You can learn about that at a lot of colleges, but one that stands out in my mind is Springfield College in Massachusetts. That is where John Cena went to college. Studying exercise science and nutrition there or at lots of other colleges would be smart. -- Bob S. How long can you go to college? You can usually get a degree after going to college for anywhere between 2 years (technical or community college) and many years after college (probably up to 12 years total!). -Anna How much money is college? Some colleges cost $65,000 each year for four years; some cost $0. Some people go to colleges that cost $65,000 but they don’t pay anything. They earned scholarships. How did they do that? They worked hard to do well in school. And, you are likely to get more in financial aid (sort of like scholarships), if your parents don’t make a lot of money. Work hard today to get good grades and you can save a lot of money! $260,000! -- Bob S. Can you bring pets? Sometimes you can bring small pets like fish or maybe a hamsters, but dorm rooms are usually fairly small so you can’t bring a dog or a bear or a cow or your chickens or a moose. But, at some schools you can actually bring your horse, but it can’t stay in your dorm room. -- Bob S. Is college big? Some colleges are big and some are small. Some colleges have under 1,000 students total, while others have 40,000 students. Some have huge campuses, and others have small ones that fit in a one-block radius. Bowdoin is a small school, which I really like, but I also have friends at much larger schools, like University of Massachusetts, and they are really happy there. It all depends on what kind of school you want. --Julianna K. |
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