Paying for College
This is what you fill out to help pay for college?
What is the FAFSA?
This kind of memory only last 15 -30 seconds?
What is short term memory?
This is a two-year (if full-time) degree.
What is an Associate's Degree?
This is an intentional 12 month or semester long break usually taken between high school and college dedicated to personal growth, career exploration or experiential learning.
What is a Gap Year?
This type of learner prefers to get information by listening - they need to hear it to know it. They may have difficulty following written directions.
What is an auditory learner?
This is money to be used for college that you have to pay back.
This is the brain’s amazing ability to reorganize, change, and adapt its structure and function throughout life.
It is the process of creating new neural connections and strengthening or pruning existing ones, meaning the brain is "plastic" or moldable, rather than hard-wired.
What is neuroplasticity?
This is a four year degree.
What is a Bachelor's Degree?
This is when you graduate high school and work full time.
What is entering the work force?
This kind of learner needs to see it to know it. They may have difficulty with spoken directions or following lectures.
What is a visual learner?
This is money given to you to pay for college, usually because of grades, sports, community service, etc. It is merit-based.
What are scholarships?
This controls what enters our brain for processing. This is a brief collection of information from your senses: hearing, touch, smell, taste and vision.
What is sensory register?
This is a degree you earn after completing a bachelor's degree, such as a master's degree or doctorate.
What is a Graduate Degree?
This is a young foreign adult (typically 18-26) who lives with a host family in a foreign country, providing child care and light housekeeping in exchange for room, board and a weekly stipend.
What is an au pair?
This learner prefers hands-on learning. They may have difficulty sitting still.
What is a kinesthetic learner?
This is money for college that does not have to be repaid and is usually awarded based on need.
What are grants?
This is a brain based time management technique. It is when you do the hardest task first.
What is the "Eat The Frog" Method?
This is a training program that teaches you the technical skills required for a specific career (for example, medical billing and coding). These programs often don't include the general education classes that are part of degree programs.
What is a Certificate?
This is a government funded volunteer/service program providing stipends and educational benefits, focused on service in the USA.
What is the AmeriCorps Program?
This is a person's set of attitudes that influence how they interpret and respond to situations. It is often categorized into types like growth (believing abilities can improve) or fixed (believing abilities are innate).
What is mindset?
These are the two different types of loans. (hint: the difference has to do with interest).
What are subsidized and unsubsidized loans?
This is an executive function skill that lets us hold on to new information so the brain can briefly work with it and connect it with other information. It helps the brain work with information without losing track of what we’re doing.
What is Working Memory?
This is on-the-job training, typically beginning with training under a professional in the field. They are generally paid, with salary increasing as skills are mastered.
What is an Apprenticeship?
This is a government funded volunteer/service programs providing stipends and educational benefits, focused on service in other countries
What is the Peace Corps programs?
This is a 3-letter identifier that indicates what kind of people you'd like to work with.
What is the Holland Code?