College Vocabulary
What is a college application?
This is a document you must complete in order to be considered for acceptance into a college.
When you earn a Bachelor's degree that means that you studied for 2, 4, or 6 years?
4 years typically.
What is STEAM an acronym for?
List 2 careers that relate to strong math skills
architect, math teacher, scientist, accountant, many others
A person who works at a professional football game. They watch players to make sure they don't break any rules. They often have 4-5 years of college education.
Referee
What is a College Major?
A major is the main subject you are studying in college.
While you are in college, are you allowed to change your major?
YES
These people create the defining features of a certain type of games, including characters, objectives, obstacles, levels and settings, and narratives. They interact with many other professionals and teams, including technical and creative personnel.
Video Game Designer
List 2 careers that require strong language arts skills.
writer, editor, journalist, researcher, professor, lawyer, and many others.
A person who directs air traffic and tells planes when to take off and when to land. This person must be alert at all times. This person typically has 4-5 years of college education.
Air Traffic Controller
What are college dorms?
Dorms are rooms that you live in on a college campus.
If you earn a Master's Degree, how many years did you study in college?
In order to earn a Master's Degree, you will attend college for a minimum of 5-6 years total. or 1-3 years years after you attain your Bachelor's Degree.
People in this career study planets, stars, and other celestial bodies. They use ground-based equipment, such as optical telescopes, and space-based equipment, such as the Hubble Space Telescope. Some study distant galaxies and phenomena such as black holes and neutron stars.
Astronomer
List two careers that require strong science skills.
Astronaut, geologist, doctor, nurse, paramedic, and many more.
People in this profession create and maintain websites. They develop, create, and test website or interface layout, functions, and navigation for usability.
Digital designer or Web developer
What are extra curricular activities?
Extra Curricular activities are things you can do other than your classes. Some examples are sports, clubs like newspaper, being a DJ on the college radio station, community service groups, etc.
If you graduate from High School in New Hampshire, are you allowed to attend college in another state?
YES
This career fuses art and technology. They use visual concepts to communicate ideas and messages. They create visual content for a variety of mediums, including websites, advertisements, brochures, magazines, product packaging, and displays.
Graphic Designer
List 2 careers that require strong Social Studies knowledge.
Historian, Anthropologist, Politician, activist.
A person who speaks into a microphone on the radio or at parties and weddings. This person must have a good speaking voice and know a lot about music. people with this career may have a high school diploma or a college degree.
Disc Jockey (DJ) or radio announcer.
What is a Financial Aid?
Financial Aid is assistance that you receive to help pay for college.
what are three types of degrees that you can earn at college?
Associate's, Bachelor's, Graduate, Masters, doctoral, C.A.G.S
This person designs the plans for the structure of a building or home. They have strong math skills, are creative and need to communicate well with others. This career requires a minimum of a bachelors degree.
Architect
List 3 "soft skills" or work study habits that any employers are looking when hiring for any job. These habits help you excel at any profession. Soft skills are attributes and behaviors that help people interact with others and work effectively. They are also known as essential skills, interpersonal skills, or noncognitive skills.
Punctuality, time management, ability to get along well with others, strong communication skills, hard working, trustworthy, problem solving, leadership and many more.
A person who works for a business to keep track of the money that is made and spent. This person is responsible to let the business know if they are making profit or losing money. They are often responsible for paying the taxes and financial legal paperwork.
Bookkeeper or accountant