little I was expected to go to college, and I even remember my aunts repeating over and over again that I would be, “the first Clancy girl to go to Harvard.” As you can see I did not make it to Harvard, but my family has always had these high standards that they set for me. Part of the reason why I did go to college was because my family expected me to go. I cannot think of one person in my family that did not go to college, so when it came to my senior year in high school, everyone was asking me where
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right to go to college for free. As I compare the two articles based on expensive college tuition, "The Real Reason College Tuition Cost So Much" by Paul F. Camposapril and " The Tuition Is Too Damn High, Part lll" by Dylan Mathews. Paul F.C. does further research in and states a lot of facts that i never would have thought of. First he says that the issue is not with the colleges but rather with the actual state. The state funding has come to a
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Read Lake and von Baeyer's article, “Tips for Successful Students,” http://homepage.usask.ca/~clv022/success.htm. Also, review the characteristics of a successful student in the lecture. As you consider these, which is your strongest characteristic? Why? How will this characteristic help you to become a successful student in your program of study? A successful student embodies characteristics such as perseverance, hard work, determination and ultimately good time management. From reading, Tips
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2015 Achieving my Goals During my whole life , I have been setting goals to become successful in what I do. Goal setting gives you a lasting dream and limited motivation. It also gives me a target to shoot for the courage I need to achieve higher and more complicated goals. By setting goals and always reminding myself of them I am more suitable to work harder to achieve these goals. I believe that setting goals is an important direction of succeeding in life. Throughout my own lifetime I
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find out if you were eligible for special education in your public middle school when you were younger? ! My mom had asked the school to evaluate me, so she called or wrote the director of special education, even the principal of my school and had to describe the concerns that she had with the my academic performance and she even requested an evaluation under IDEA, to see if a disability was even involved in the first place just to make sure. My public school was concerned about how I was
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Online Learning: Characteristics and Approaches to Managing Learning INFT 101 Have you recently decided to go back to college and earn your degree or further your education? Have you thought that maybe online courses may be the right choice for you? Maybe you feel you don’t have the discipline to stay focused and motivated if you take courses the less traditional way and opt to study online. Well, I have read an article that explains the online approach and the learner characteristics
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2: Decision Making My decision making process for selecting university. I started in a two year college where I obtain a certificate in technical communications. While still taking classes I decided to further my education by getting a B.Sc. degree in a four year college, but then the question is what university do I want to attend? At that point, I started my research as to the choice of college I want to attend. The first thing I did was to ask few friends of mine, my parent and some few relatives
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pursue an education that would put you on your ideal career path? Personal Narrative Reach for the stars "The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere." -Barack Obama. This quote said by president Barack Obama really stands out to me because I believe that I can accomplish anything as long as I put in enough effort and never give up on what I want to accomplish
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Education for All LBSU-300 10/12/2015 It is amazing to see how much of Benjamin Franklin’s ideas came to fruition in today’s public education curriculum. For instance Benjamin Franklin wrote that the following should be taught, “Arithmetick, Accounts, and some of the first Principles of Geometry and Astronomy” (Proposals, 1931). The education system has aged and there are certainly some changes needed. For my children I want a classroom which is not oriented toward one style of learner but
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was in first grade, my parents pulled me into a room and sat me on my mother’s lap. I was seven at this point, but I was always small for my age so I was still able to do this. I remember being nervous because they were acting so serious and I wondered if they were getting ready to break some bad news. I sat patiently, attempting to read their facial expressions to see if I was in trouble or if something bad had happened. And then the question came… “Maryam…Where do you want to go to school next
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