high dropout rate in college

Thesis Statement:
There are many causes for high dropout rate in college, but the major reasons for it are as follows:trouble in college life, high tuition and usefulness for themselves.
Topic Sentence 1
First of all, students think they can't go over the trouble which they face in college life.

• For international students, they have to face a big problem about their language. Because, they are not native speaker, it is really hard for them to study by second language.
• When students enter the university, most of them live far away from their parents and friends. They may feel lonely and unhappy everyday. It is possible for some of them who can't adapt to the new environment to suffer from depression. So they have to drop the university.

• Others maybe addicted to alcohol or illegal drug making their college life like trash. Then, they fall most of exam, so they go back home.

Topic Sentence 2
Second, some students can't afford their tuition.

• Some of students have to afford their tuition by themselves. Therefore they have to choose full time part job. However, the tuition increases so quickly that they can't pay it.
• Because of the economic crisis, their parents go bankrupt. That is the reason why they can't afford the high tuition.

Topic sentence 3
Last, students think the college education is usefulness for them.

• Some of students think, they can study all of knowledge taught in college by themselves, so they don't need to study in college.
• Students don't like what they study in college, they think in society they can study more than in college.
• It is difficult to find a good job, even though they get bachelor degree. This problem is very common in China. The salary of some college students is lower than others who just graduate from technical school. Unfortunately, some of college students can't find any job after they graduate.
  

Life in studying

It was really amazing me when I found that I had been American for more than one month. In China, people always say time flies at the beginning of a journal. I don't want to continue what I used to write in China, but time flying is the most suitable beginning for this journal.
Studying is the most important part in my life. Sometimes it take my whole day from morning to night to study. Because my major is geography which is not chosen by most Chinese, it is really hard for me to find someone who is Chinese native speaker to help me. I choose five courses this semester, four of five courses have no Chinese except me. At beginning of this semester, when I didn't adapt to the class taught by English, every course made me crazy. I didn't understand the whole things the professor said in lecture; I didn't catch up the note; I didn't hear whether there was homework or not. Unfortunately, there was no classmate could help me, because I didn't understand what they said either. Take my major course spatial analysis for example, there is a lab at the end of the lecture, and students have to hand in the lab report before they go back. At beginning, I didn't catch up what the professor talk about in the lecture, and I always couldn't understand the introduction of the lab. So, I still had no idea about the lab when others finished it. I had thought about dropping this course for many times; however, every time I always told myself just try another. Surprisingly, after two weeks, I found I was able to catch up the lecture and can finish the lab without the help from my professor. Nowadays, I am always the first person to finish the lab, because the lab question is about math which I am good at, while the American are not.
Maybe I am the only Chinese who want to get bachelor degree in geography. I have my own advantage and disadvantage compared with others. As a result, sometimes for me courses in 100 level are harder than courses in 300 level, because 100 level courses are like science lecture giving me too many strange theorist and words, while high level courses force on one field without a large number of new words.
Sometimes, I think my effort does not make sense. Because no matter how hard I study, it is also impossible for me to get A in some courses. However, I will improve myself only if I do my best, and grade is not the most important thing.

Far away from her

Yesterday, I took a phone call to mother to say happy spring festival. While chatting with each other, my mother told me that she stayed at home for waiting for my phone call and felt sad because of separate rather than go to her office for a whole week after I went to the US, that is really amazing for me.
In my mind, my mother is a workaholic, who devotes herself completely to her work. While I was growing up, my mother always left me behind and went to other cities for her work. Sometimes, even though she came home after work, she arrived home late rather than have dinner with me. When I was ill, she had no time to take me to a hospital; when I was feeling lonely and sad, she had no time to comfort me. In my memory, almost half of my birthday, I celebrated it by myself.
When I was 18 years old, I went to other city in China to get my bachelor degree leaving my hometown, also far away from my mother. So I could stay with her less than 3 months per year. Before I went to university I told her "we lost nearly on third of time to live together in the passing 18 years, however in the following ten to twenty years it is very possible for us to just have one third of time to live together".That sentence made us cry. It is easy to image that, in the future,when she becomes older and even sick wanting me to accompany with her, I will not have opportunity to satisfy her requirement because of my work.
It seems inevitable for us to avoid separate. Because in our perspective, only without the help of parents and doing everything by oneself, the young person can grow up quickly and have ability enough to make his dream come true. When my mother was 20 years old, she left her parents to get her bachelor degree. After her undergraduate education, she worked in Beijing which is far away from her hometown. Now, I choice is same as her choice she persist in her early life, studying aboard and making myself become powerful rapidly. Nowadays, I understand that we love each other pretty much, but because of our choice love is the only thing we can have.
God is equality, if you want to achieve something others doesn't have, you have to give up something everyone have. As for my mother and me, we choose to turn into the people who have talent and ability to make our world more wonderful than before, we have to give up a plenty of time to live together.And love is enough for us.