I was so proud to hear his name over the speakers and cheer for him like a good baby sister would, but I was also very conscious of the fact that in only a few short months he would be moving almost 2 hours away from me. 2 hours may not seem like much, I know, but, to me, that would be a sudden jump of only being a few seconds away from me to many, many, many seconds away. ... " I didn't believe him, but as I caught the last glimpse of his tail light in our driveway, I knew this is how things were going to be for what will feel like forever. 12 hours later, I get a Facetime call fr...

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If you look around, we don't always hang with our parents. We can barely have a long conversation because we have school and our parents have work and sometimes not even during dinner time because maybe we are not hungry, or we are busy. During breakfast, lunch, and dinner, out of the three principa...

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It didn't take me but about 36 hours and I was calling my cousin telling how ready I was to take the trip. ... I was treated by the parks medical staff laid up for about 2 hours then me and my cousin continued our trail. ...

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It is pretty quiet at that time because everybody is still sleeping and also because my body has been well prepared for a whole day of working from eight hours of sleep. ... Furthermore, I will stay for some more minutes after class to ask the professor about the lecture and go to his or her office hours as much as I can. ...

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Often many student jobs require long hours or are too stressful for young adults. ... On the other hand there are many cons of working too many hours while in high school or college. Burnout is one of the most harmful consequences of working long hours while a student. ... Those working more than fifteen hours per school week have less success in graduating. ... Forty three percent of them work more than fifteen hours per week. ...

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Regular public school hours need to be put into sync with student's biological hours because these current schedules are making it impossible for students to perform at the best of their ability. ... A small 15% of teenage students get at least 8.5 hours of sleep on weekdays, and over 25% of teenage students get less than 7 hours of sleep on weekdays ("Sleepy Teen Troubles"). ... The test showed that students slept two hours less on schooldays than weekends, and woke up 3.5 hours earlier on schooldays. ... This cause teens to fall asleep later and wake up later than normal biologica...

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The majority of high schools in the United States have a graduation requirement consisting of completing 60 hours of community service. ... Whereas, college students have different schedules, some of them go two to three days a week others go five times a week but with shorter hours or longer breaks between classes in which community service hours could be done. ... My sister had a service learning class in CSUMB that required 30 hours of community service hours. ... Finally, Eggers' says "there are many hours in the days and weeks that need killing."" ... When in fact if they had communi...

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Because most teens are still attending high school, their after-school working hours generally extend well past 7:00 p.m. If a curfew of 7:00 p.m. were instituted, teens would need to cut their working hours in order to get home in time to meet curfew. ... Also, some kids need to work longer hours in order to make enough money to help support their family. ... Many of these activities take place after the dinner hour and run well into the evening. ... It is simply an unreasonable hour for teens to be home. ...

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Lavonne Williams, a former worker for a Chicken Empire outlet in her neighborhood, has worked part time twenty hours a week while in school and 40 hours a week during summers. ... If she decides to take the station manager position she will receive $1,635 a month, before taxes a huge raise over the $7.50 an hour she now makes. As station manager, Lavonne will have to put in between 30 and 40 hours at the outlet and, another 5 to 10 hours a week at home. ... Since Lavonne will have to dedicate more hours to work and less time on school. ... The internship would probably require 15 to 20 hours o...

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They think it would be easier to just open up a laptop and log in instead of getting up early in the morning and going to a 6.5 hour school day and be tired when done. ... I'm pretty sure that there are probably close to your hometown even if that close is 40 minutes to an hour long drive and maybe that college may not be the best college but you will definitely benefit from it and learn a lot and even earn a degree. ...

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You usually spend 6 hours a day and thirty hours per week in class. ... College students usually have gaps of hours between classes; a class time varies throughout the day and evening. In college the average time is 12 to 16 hours per week in a class. ... The gaps of hours help students to relax and or study before their next class....

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"American school children typically attend school for about six hours a day, 180 days per year. ... Large numbers become clinically depressed or anxious because of longer school hours and no free play time. ... Countries that score better than we do on international standardized tests require fewer hours of schooling per year than we do. ... The nationwide average day of school lasts 6.7 hours. Chicago, who was known in the education community as having one of the shortest days at 5 hours 45 minutes, have now extended their days to 7½ hours a day. ...

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Not be stuck inside doing work, that already happens for nearly seven hours at school! ... So why have us go home and waste two or three more hours doing work when we just spent seven hours doing it! ... We work hard and learn all day in school, after those seven hours we deserve a break, not more work! ...

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This will help me get four hours for college in advance. ... By taking four years of foreign language I will be receiving four collage hours. ... That is another class I will be getting four college hours for. Next year, if approved, I am planning to take honors English and AP US History, which is another course for which I get three college hours for. All together, I will have 20 college hours before attending college. ...

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College professors, however, are only available to students during scheduled class time and office hours, which they do not always keep. ... Depending on the amount of hours the student takes, this could result in spending a large amount of his/her spare time doing independent work. ... With few exceptions, students must remain on campus during school hours. ...

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Soccer practice alone lasts until 5:30 or 6:00 everyday, so I have to take later hours at my job. ... Statistics say that the average body needs at least ten hours of sleep. ... Today if I am lucky I will see my friends twice a week and when I do hang out with my friends it is usually between the hours of 7 and 8 o"clock. ... Most of the teachers I know would like to get home at a reasonable hour meaning before 6 P.M. ...

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Most studies show that students who work more than fifteen hours a week not only have lower participation rates in extracurricular activities but also earn lower grades than students who work fewer hours or none at all (Stern). ... He also works at Lou Malnati's 10 hours a week. ... Research conducted in the late 1990s shows that students who work fewer than fifteen hours a week have more positive attitudes about work and higher future earning potential (Stern). ...

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He and his friend go to work for Mike's father after school in one of his businesses, cleaning the place up for only pennies a week (a dime an hour to be exact!). ... In a few weeks, he tempts them with a quarter an hour up to five dollars an hour, but, as the author puts it, "the part of my soul that was weak and needy was silenced. ... It only takes an open mind and the willingness to take time away from "the rat race" for a few hours. ...

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You plan months in advanced and spend hundredths of dollars for the best five hours of your life. ... After spending two hour in the salon I had to go get the last minute accessories. ... I went and took a nap because I was tired and I had about three hours before my makeup appointment. ... To my surprise I planned prom for the last three months of school and it seems to go by in just one hour. ...

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., yet they're forced to "rise and shine- at the wee hours of the morning. ... Teens need between 8 ½ to 9 ½ hours of sleep a night, however, according to the article "Sleep Trouble in School-Age Kids- by Patty Rhule, thirty percent of teens do not get enough sleep. ... In a survey done by the schools, 92 percent of parents said they preferred the later start times because the extra hour made an "extraordinary- difference in the students' performance. ... In fact, I have found that I can obtain these factors on Wednesday late start days when I get to sleep for an extra hour and a ...

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Nothing is more frustrating to a college student than being dead broke. Tests, past due homework, and pop quizzes don't even compare to being a dead broke college student. Being broke is like having a car with out any gas. Your clothes become tattered and shrunken, your food stores are barren and...

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After that, we were just waiting for the result and waited almost an hour and checked the school's website. ... After a six hour driving, we got to capital and stayed all the time at my cousin's house. ... Consulate and wait for hours and hours. ... By the way, we waited too longer more than 3 hours, chairs were so uncomfortable, I was sleepy and no phone, literally there was nothing to do. An hour later they called our number that was on the sheet that they gave to us before getting into the consulate. #896 I still remember clearly. ...

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A lot of people wish that their school could be changed in an instant. The school does need to be changed and today I will be showing you my input on the changes. In this essay I will be discussing topics such as why we should have naptime, no homework, and no state tests. Sleeping is a very impor...

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She needs you at work for a few hours." ... Eventually, another referral was faxed to the specialist's office, but not after delaying my appointment time another hour. I sat in the waiting area for about half an hour before a nurse summoned me into a room. ...

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Generally speaking, standard working hours of countries worldwide are around 40 to 44 hours per week.(Wikipedia) Split up that's 8 hours a day which isn't making the person sacrifice anything for the tasks they are doing. ...

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