...GEAR Up Waco www.gearupwaco.org The 5-Step Personal Essay Writing Guide: “Future Career” Writing about your future career is an excellent way to show colleges and scholarship organizations how you will use your education. College is not your final destination, but a springboard that will help you reach larger goals in life. Colleges and scholarship organizations do not expect you to be 100% certain about your future job. Don’t be afraid to aim high and write about your dream job. STEP 1: Brainstorm Your Future Career You don’t need to be absolutely certain about your career choice. You’re going to write about your dream job and there’s no limit to what this could be. Answer these questions to help you decide what to put in your essay: 1. What is your dream job? _______________________________________________________ 2. What attracts you to this job? ___________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 3. How did you first get interested in this type of work? Did someone in this career inspire you? How? ________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 4. What do you hope to accomplish in this career? _____________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ ...
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...interests, values, and life goals, that’s what makes your personality, learning styles, skills and education. These are the tools you use in the blueprint of your life. In this essay I will be stating things about my personality, learning style, skills & aptitudes, interests, values, desired lifestyle, educational goals, and career goals. Through it all most people say my personality is my best trait. I’m a very outgoing person, I’m always ready to have fun. Mellow describes me because I’m laid back, quiet and I like to observe the things around me. I wouldn’t describe myself as being a genius, but I would say I’m smart and open to learning new things. I’m a spontaneous person, while with me you’ll never know what I’ll do next. My learning styles are very unique, I’m a logical thinker but at the same time I’m a visual and auditory learner. I’m a logical thinker, because I think and analyze everything I do before I do it. In the classroom when I’m being taught I understand the concept if I see examples. During lectures I can understand the materials just by listening. All of these styles of learning are the way I understand and gain knowledge. How I’ll live my life in the future is based on my skills and aptitude. I’m a great thinker I think outside the box. I’m a great counter one thing I don’t play about is my money. I’m a mood changer if someone is feeling a little under the weather I’m a funny person, I put smiles on people faces. My biggest goal in life is to be great...
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...make. This essay will reflect what personal responsibility means, and the relationship between personal responsibility and college success, identification of two areas of improvement as a college level student based on personal, professional, and academic circumstances, specific strategies discovered through research to improve within these areas, and a preliminary plan to practice personal responsibility in my education. Personal responsibilities are the decisions I make on daily basis. Whether they are as simple as getting out of bed in the morning or to exercise or not these are very important decision I choose to make. I have two very important responsibilities that I must take care of each day, my two children. I have a little boy who is six years of age and a little girl who is two and both very active children that I need to be alert and able to keep up with throughout all of their sports and activities. Kyle, my son asks me why I am always on my computer and I said I am going to school to improve our future and hopefully I am showing him that it is never too late to continue our education and I am always telling him no matter how old you are we can continue to learn. I want to set a good example for my children through these responsibilities as discussed so far. Therefore, I must wake up in the morning and care for them. Also to improve my unhappiness and my health exercising is extremely important so I can be there for my children. In correlation with my personal responsibilities...
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...Write a 1-2 page essay in which you: 1. Address why you decided to go to college at this time in your life. 2. State the reasons behind the decision. Your assignment must: * Be at least 250 words minimum or up to 500 words maximum. * Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. * Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: * Write paragraphs and essays, and other assigned work with a clearly defined main idea, introduction, body, and conclusion. * Revise written pieces to improve clarity and organization Consider how the prewriting, writing, and revising processes can help you write the essay. Think about the topic, how to write supporting sentences, and how to organize the essay. 1. Audience, Purpose, and Subject * Each time you write, you should think about the audience, purpose, and subject for your piece of writing (Chapter 1 of Evergreen: A Guide for Writers). * The audience for this writing is your teacher and peers. * The purpose is to explain to your readers your reasons for going to college. * The subject is about your decision to go to college. 2. Prewriting * As noted in Chapter 2 of Evergreen:...
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...W. P. Carey MBA Admissions Essay Questions – Evening MBA and Online MBA MBA Applicants are required to submit answers to essay questions during the online application process. Essays may be typed in the document below, saved and uploaded in one document when requested during the online application. Responses to each essay question should be no more than two pages using 1.5 line spacing. Please begin each question on a new page. Essay Question #1 Explain how your past accomplishments have prepared you for the W. P. Carey MBA. “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.” A famous saying from the movie Forrest Gump pretty much describes my situation. In my earlier life, I never thought I would come to US for my master of engineering, work as an electrical engineer at Force10networks (it was acquired by DELL recently), and now pursue an MBA. My past accomplishments that have prepared me for the W.P. Carey MBA include teaching mathematics in Taiwan, coming to US to improve myself, earning my engineering masters at the University of Arizona, and working as electrical design engineer at force10networks. Before I came to US, I had taught mathematics from high school level to college calculus for seven years. The reason that I like teaching is I like to sense students’ issues of learning mathematics. I like to communicate with them, and to help them succeed in achieving...
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...Penta Career Center has changed my overall perception of school, and I am very eager to share how. Penta is a vocational school located in Perrysburg Ohio, that offers programs ranging from cosmetology to welding. Popular programs include automotive technology, masonry, culinary arts, dental assisting, early childhood education, floral design, public safety, and small animal care. And these are just few of the many programs here at Penta. Oak Harbor is my home school, and I came to Penta my junior year to attend Medical Technologies. I plan to return to Penta for my senior year as well! I chose to come to Penta because I wanted to get a headstart in the medical field. I knew that being in Medical Technologies would help me pursue my future career of becoming a licensed dermatologist. One of the things I enjoy here at Penta, is that we operate on block schedule. Block scheduling gives me a good idea of what college will be like. Penta also gives me the opportunity to participate and compete in student organizations, such as HOSA and SkillsUSA. HOSA is an organization dedicated to educating future healthcare professionals. The web defines SkillsUSA as “.. a partnership of students, teachers and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled workforce. SkillsUSA helps each student excel. We provide educational programs, events and...
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...Personal Responsibility Essay Philip Stansberry GEN/200 - FOUNDATIONS FOR GENERAL EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS March 3, 2014 DALYNN CAMPBELL Abstract My Personal Responsibility Essay is a brief look into my background, major changes in the educational landscape, my reasons for attending college, my motivation, and the obstacles that would hinder me from completing my goal. . Table of Contents Table of Contents ....................…………...................................................................................... 2 Personal Responsibility Essay……...................……..…............................................................... 3 References….................................................................................................................................. 6 . Personal Responsibility Essay My arrival at the University of Phoenix came a few years after my retirement plans ran into a pothole. When I say pothole, I should really say canyon. Though, all things considered, my retirement goals were nothing to write home about. I was a migrant nuclear worker, which means I worked infrequently with no substantial retirement benefits. This 30 year continuum had me exhausting my savings during the dry times, thus my earnings never amounted to much towards retirement. I lived an unbalanced middle class existence. My plan for retirement was to simply survive until I was able to collect social security, sell my home, move to a country...
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...Jennifer Love October 22,2009 University 100 Barbara Boyd Essay Assignments #1 “To laugh often and much. . . to win the respect of intelligent people. . . to earn the appreciation of honest critics. . . to find the best in others. . . to leave the world a little better. . . this is the meaning of success.” – Waldo Emerson. When I was in high school, I often long to know what will my future laid. I often wonder what will I become or what will I have done. I also wonder how will I be able to adapt to the label as a “college student”. About eight weeks ago, I arrived to CSUN ( California State University of Northridge) as a college student, no longer a high student or a visitor, and I felt nervous but excited to see what does CSUN have to provide for me. Eight weeks went by fast, and now when I write this essay, I look back those wonderful eight weeks seem so yesterday. I met a lot of new faces, new names and I still cant remember all of their names because I've met SO many people in eight weeks. I discovered a whole new environment, new places, and a whole new journey for me. I learned how to deal with my roommates, learned how to adapt with them and work as a teamwork. I learned how to manage my time with social time and my education time. I learned that the classes are simple but yet hard. I learned how to deal with teachers, students and interpreter. Most of all, I enjoyed a lot being here as a CSUN student. Back in high school, I went to a mainstream school, Poly High...
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...Include a short essay of no more than 300-600 words assessing the importance of a college education in achieving your personal goals or personal circumstances which could hinder you from achieving your goals. The great Malcolm X once said “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.” I have always felt like this quote stands true in my life. Since my days as a young child, I have repeatedly been told that education will create an extremely bright future full of wonderful opportunities to grow and shine among others. When the opportunity to apply and enroll for college came about, I was more than ready to take on the challenges it had to offer. Being the first woman on my Mother’s side, and the second woman on my Father’s side to go to college was something I wanted to do, not only for myself but also for my family. To me, a higher education isn’t just getting a bachelor’s degree and a diploma after four years, it’s about growing as an individual and preparing to be the best you can be in any field that you are placed into. Receiving this education is going to be the most significant and imperative step in achieving my goals. I want to set a new pathway for the women to come in my family, showing them that being a well-educated female is a powerful tool in the world. Upon being blessed with so much pride and happiness from my family members, I will set out to be the absolute best I can be in an agriculture-based career...
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...Personal Responsibility and College Success Angela A. Guzman University of Phoenix Personal Responsibility and College Success Being a mother of two while going to school can be overwhelming. Daily tasks such as taking care of my two girls, house chores, and balancing school work is hard to squeeze into a day unless you learn to manage your time wisely. In order to manage your time wisely you must take charge of your actions by practicing self-discipline. Making the right choices can lead to many rewards, but holding yourself accountable for failures will help you make better decisions in the future (Haskins, 2009). Time management, self-discipline, and accountability all comes down to personal responsibility. In my opinion, personal responsibility is setting an attainable goal, taking the actions needed to reach your goal, and holding yourself accountable for those actions. In short, personal responsibility is the key to college success. Self-discipline Planning to go to college is a big step that requires a lot of self-discipline. Self-discipline is about setting attainable goals and being able to follow through until reaching said goals. Setting attainable goals will help you succeed. Attempting goals that are unattainable not only sets you up for failure, but will discourage you from setting new goals in the future. Using a planning strategy of taking a long-term goal and breaking it up into short-term goals will keep you on track (Ellis, 2010). Most people...
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...Senior Goals Essay I am currently in my senior year in the Information Support Services and Networking shop at Greater New Bedford Regional Voc- Tech High School, which is the last step before attending college and earning my degree, and finally moving on to the world of work. Suffice it to say, I can’t wait to graduate high school! Before graduating high school, I have some short-term goals to accomplish. My principal objective for high school is to earn a 90 average in all of my classes for this year, especially shop, and graduate with honors with a grade point average of about 3.5. In order to achieve this objective, I will complete all class and homework assignments in a satisfactory manner, study for and pass all quizzes and tests occurring...
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...Assignment 1 “Why college education is important to me” Achieving Academic Excellence February 6th, 2014 The purpose of this essay is to show the importance of a college education and to provide many reasons why a college education would be important to me. I will incorporate a few quoted references along with some statistical data and my personal opinion. About twenty years ago I couldn’t give an answer to “why college is important to me”. I did enroll in a college and lasted about three semesters. I didn’t do well in many of my classes because I had poor study habits, lacked maturity, was never really focused, and just didn’t have any real motivation and goals set for myself. I never really gave it much thought. The point is I just didn’t take advantage of what college would mean to me and to my future. I wanted to enter the work force right away because I thought that I could land a good job without a college education. After fifteen years of doing different jobs and not making enough money to support a family on my own, I was finally at a crossroads. What am I going to do with my life? Do I continue to struggle? Those were really good questions. I realized that it wasn’t possible to land good jobs without better knowledge and the only way possible is to go back to school. I did some soul searching and came to the conclusion that if I am going to achieve something in this life and qualify for many positions then I must go back to college and work very hard for a degree...
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...Portfolio Essay Most people go to college to cultivate and discover their passion in life and build their knowledge. Student will experience two ideas during college one is Utility U, which gets things done mentally without learning the subject. The other vision is Utopia U that builds the morals and ethics of the students. However, Kwame Anthony Appiah the author of “What is the point of College,” tells that Utility U and Utopia U, “leads to very different metrics of success” but his students have a different observation than what Appiah states so which one is better for the universities to use and for the students’ to become successful in the future. The students’ Appiah refers to in his article, “What is the Point of College?” state that “They learned that what you can do and who you can be-- the qualities of your skills and of your soul--are two separate questions...
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...Aim High Allison Reid Saint Joseph’s College William Zinsser’s essay, “The Right to Fail,” is a dangerous article for young people to read. It discusses how he believes that children and adolescents have too much pressure on them to succeed by attaining an education. Zinsser goes on to send the message that it is okay to quit and become a free thinker. He states, in the beginning of it, that, “for the young, dropping out is often a way of dropping in” (Zinsser, 1967). I think that to encourage the youth of tomorrow to not pursue an education is irresponsible. I disagree with Zinsser because I have been that “drop out” and it is a hard road to follow. This great country we live in provides everyone the opportunity to succeed. Zinsser is trying to downplay “go get ‘em” attitude that Americans are so well known for. He is encouraging people to be just average. We are nothing without a dream, a goal, or a vision of our future that is better. Zinsser says, “We need mavericks and dissenters and dreamers far more than we need junior vice-presidents, but we paralyze them by insisting that every step be a step up to the next rung of the ladder” (Zinsser, 1967). This statement from Zinsser says to me that it is more important to dream than to do. I think it is important to dream about what you want to do, set your goals, and go out and achieve them. An education is a great way to do this. From the day you start kindergarten, a framework for success is being laid...
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...major that will determine the rest of my life. Lucky for me, I had the privilege to take a variety of different classes during my high school career to help me discover my college major and form new goals. Classes like weight training, chemistry, band, creative writing, and American politics never truly sparked a flame in my heart. But, when I took the computer programming class my senior year, I finally knew. Everything escalated from that semester on. I built my own computer, learned how to build a website, and even took on an intermediate programming class. Without these variety of classes, I may have never found my passion for computers. Having the opportunity of taking various classes in different fields allowed me to shape my own goals and let me experience the world in a different perspective....
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