...As I look back on “why I attended College” it makes me sad and happy. I have started so many times and haven’t completed it. It frustrates me because I have so many goals in my head, but nothing has actually been completed. I always think what’s my purpose and why am I still attending? As growing up, I became a single mother at the age of 17, and barely getting through high school. Grades were bad so I decided to drop out in the 11th grade. By age 20, my second daughter was born, I didn’t complete high school, and no career path. Now, keep in mind I knew education was the key to everything, and better opportunities. Once my second daughter was about 4, I landed a low paying job so that I could make sure my children were taken care of. As time went on life became more stressful. I wasn’t making enough money to do a lot but it was keeping my household up. I finally got the job that I enjoyed, but here’s the thing, I still wasn’t educated with no degree. The job was a temporary, but not know that my Supervisor would love my performance enough to want to keep me. What held me back from the position was my education. I had to go to the Warden...
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...#1 1/20 2014 The Reason Why I Am Attending College The reason for attending college are probably just like everyone else’s. I went to college because I wanted a better life for myself. I’d like to find a job and have a wonderful life. I am an international student majoring in dance from Taiwan. My country’s dance doesn’t have a chance to be appreciated, so I tried and moved to another country, which its dance is famous, and appreciate on international. My plan is to graduate from college and receive diploma so that I can enter a famous dance company or get a job about dancing, and that’s why I am attending college, even more than is the main reason why I am attending college. The second reason was that I wanted to get a better education more that high school. If I am the boss of the company, I won’t hire the people who just have high school diploma. My final reason is that I wanted to have college experience. I was glad that I can enter the college, so why I don’t take it and enjoy the real college’s life. The high school experience can’t satisfy me, and this is my chance, and I want to take it. My main reason to attend college is for getting a better life. Everyone knows that the dancer is not easy to make more money unless he or she has higher academic degree. I heard foreign career of dancer would have more chance to show myself and be appreciated. Thus, after I graduated from my high school, I move to America and started studying my college in dance division. Fortunately...
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...my purpose for attending College? Ever since I have been attending college all I hear is all my professors ask, why we are attending college? I have thought about it really well. At first I was attending college to please my parents. Then I had a baby and as she is growing and time passes by I see that economically everything is going up. In reality I know why I am attending college. I am in college to improve my economic status, be an example for my children, and to achieve my life goal of being a petroleum engineer. As I was growing up, I seen my parents struggle in paying bills. At times we would have our light cut off and be running extension wires from our neighbor home to ours in order to manage, until we had the money for the bill. I also recall asking for things and my mother saying, Sorry sweaty we don’t have enough or we can’t afford it. Now that I am a father myself, I don’t want my children to feel the burden I felt just because my parents weren’t financially stable. Don’t get me wrong I had a wonderful child hood but there were moments that I wish I could have a certain object. I just would like to provide for my children and still have a little extra in my pocket just in case of any financial instability or purpose. The second reason I am attending college is to be a great example for my children. Neither my father nor mother attended College or graduated for High school. So far I am the only one who has graduated from high school and I want to be able...
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...Laurie g English 102-V2 13 September 2001 Is College Really a Waste of Time When I was a child, I remember my parents always telling me that going to college was not only going to be an investment, but it is also the only way to be more successful in life. Yes, it is true that going to school would be an investment and in some circumstances successful in life, but what they seemed to leave out was that going to college may not be necessary to be successful in life. I followed this approach up until I entered my freshman year of college and realized that my parents were only telling me the half-truth. Yes, college is an investment and by going to college it leads to becoming more successful in life, but what they left out was that there is more to the equation. The other factors to the equation includes, what it I am going to school for, an economy of high unemployment rates, students debts, and most importantly the competition one will face in order to get that particular job. Entrepreneur leading Uncollege Dale Stephens in is article “College is a waste of time” for his special on CNN examines that with life experience, creativity, internet tools, college degrees are “unnecessary”. In “College is a waste of time” Dale Stephens explores how he has come to the determination that college is a waste of time through personal experience and argues why and how to avoid attending college. Stephens sums up the recent costs for college tuition and student loan debts and then focuses...
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...Why college education is important to me Kimberly Morgan April 18, 2013 Ashworth College The value of a college education can be taken in all different kinds of aspects. I can lose all my fame and fortune but if I have a college education, it remains the same. In my prospective, a college education has to be valued. So many ask why education is so important. AdultLearn.com states that "In a technological society where jobs and careers are attached to pieces of paper distributed to deserving people by college administrators, that question seems like a no-brainer.” (AdultLearn.com, 2013) College is a goal of mine that I am going to achieve. When attending college you have to truly be a levelheaded person and stay on track to get good grades. Education is the most important asset that you can have or achieve. Being that college has its many expenses, I look at it as if I am buying a house. You have to be positive when looking at what all you have to put in when attending school. Getting a college degree takes a lot of hard work and many long hours. Going to school is not as easy as it seems. Putting a value on your college education means good study habits. That is only one of the factors of valuing your education. Higher education is essential today and to the future students of all ages. Education is very important in order to help level the playing field so individuals will have more opportunities in life. I believe that education helps to break down barriers between...
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...person is heading what they get in life and what they aspire to achieve. I believe where a person comes from matters a great deal, others might disagree with what I believe. I am merely basing this off my own personal experience. It is to my knowledge thus far that where you come from matters, and what you aim for is based off what background you come from. Of course a person might choose many directions but I assure you most base it off their upbringing and or background, either to make a better more suitable life or because they are simply accustomed to their way of life. Opportunities now are a different thing, for instance a good friend of mine and I took most of the same pre AP and AP classes in high school. I am attending Central Texas College and she is attending San Marcos University. Why is this you may ask? I have an older brother and an older sister neither of which have attended a college. We weren’t raised with the knowledge of the importance of attending college, I was unaware of how to apply for grants, scholarships what they were of course I heard of all these things in high school but I was a teenager I didn’t understand as much as I do now. My friend on the other hand was informed. She was awarded the opportunity to go to a great school and her parents could afford it. My family and upbringing is way different my friend was given a car she didn’t start working till she got to college. I had my first job at sixteen and moved out at eighteen and bought my own...
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...Importance Of College One of the reasons I chose to attend college were to make a better life for my son and I. I find it very hard at times being a single mom and working endless jobs. So I figured if I go back to school and get a degree, maybe I can find a job I really enjoy. I also felt the need to further my education because of today’s economy. A high school diploma is not cutting it these days, and with it alone you will find it very hard trying to maintain a good job. I also decided to go back to school because I would like to set a good example for my child. I want to walk the walk and not just talk the talk, because with kids these days you have to show them the right way things to do and the best way to be in life. I don’t want my child to say “how can u tell me to get a degree when you do have one.” In other words I want to live by example. There are numerous things I hope to gain from this experience. First, I will say making more money to better take care of my family and get the things I will like to have in life. Secondly, will be getting a better job and actually working at a place I enjoy, and not waking up every morning dreading to go to work. I feel I need a career and not just a job. I always and will believe that education is the key to success. Last but not least, is finding confidence and pride in myself because sometimes I seem to doubt myself. I feel as if I am not going to do as good as I would like or as if I am going to fail at completing the...
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...04 12 May 2016 Why college education is important to me There are many reasons why a college education is important in general and important to me. Many employers will not even interview candidates who do not have a college degree. There are many more benefits to having a college education than just for interviews. Therefore, there is plenty of reason for attending college, if it is affordable to you. It helps with opportunities for advancement, the knowledge of skills before taking the job, and personal satisfaction. Going to college can be personal for most, but people tend to share a few factors that are motivating. One of the biggest factors in attending college for most people would be for opportunities for advancement. There are many companies who would rather some have a degree in their field to help aid them. Furthering your education to a college degree can help you move up in the company you work for as well. Employers who have employees with college degrees are seen as goal oriented people. People like these know how to get their job done. Employees with goals not only work well in a timely manner but can also work well with the job itself because they know the goal is to keep customers happy. Opportunities for advancement also come with salary raises. If you are moving to higher position, which means there, should be more money opportunity. With the company that I work for, I am now in retail sales. Perhaps I got a degree in graphic design; I could then have...
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...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 where I could live comfortably off the SSI, die, and go onto heaven for a real retirement. So what was the pothole that in my perspective became a canyon? Let’s just summarize things by saying I am disabled, unemployed for 4 years, and am approximately in $100...
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... |Your reflection | |How would you define academic |I would define academic readiness as, being prepared to embark on an educational journey. For | |readiness? |instance take myself, I haven’t been to school in 10 years, for someone in my shoes this | | |circumstance could be a bit overwhelming. So I am now preparing to enter a new educational | | |journey that I need to get ready for. I feel this stage in my life is where academic readiness | | |will take place. | |What concerns, if any, do you have |The concerns I have will mainly come from the academic writing portion. As far as academic | |with academic writing and reading? |reading goes, that’s second nature to me. I have always enjoyed reading, I feel that’s why I read| | |so fluently. On the other hand, academic writing is a totally different subject. Like I stated | | |earlier, I feel I could use some help eliminating words in writing. I know what I want to say, | | |but sometimes it doesn’t work out right on paper. ...
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...my first year attending Azusa Pacific University. When I first attended last semester in the fall of 2013, I had a difficult time transitioning as APU isn’t always transfer friendly. As a transfer student, one leaves an institution and then is just getting used to another school. Academically APU has challenged me in ways I never imagined. The history department has been incredible with the level of difficulty. My only disappointment has been that APU does not or has not offered historiography in quite some time. At other educational institutions, history majors are required to take historiography in order to know and understand what type of history we would like to study. I understand that the department is small, but it would great to see a variety of courses. For example, Latin American history or even a course on women’s history in the United States. I look forward to the courses being offered next semester that will be taught by Dr. Mazza. When I was deciding on which university to attend, I was unsure of where to go. Ultimately, I chose APU because of its location, not its religious affiliation. Being at a Christian university has been a far more different experience than I could have ever imagined. Everyone on this campus is beyond friendly and has helped me grow in my faith in ways I never imagined. I rather enjoy attending chapel it’s a much more personal experience. I don’t enjoy going to chapel in the Felix Event Center it feels very impersonal and I can’t connect...
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...College offers many amazing opportunities to any student that is willing to take advantage of what it has to offer. Along with these new chances also comes some rather difficult obstacles that can be easily overcome with the help of a friend or the guidance of a leader. In most cases that leader is the person right down the hall, the Residence Assistant. Currently as a freshman, know from personal experience that college can be a very scary experience for many reasons. First of all there is a major shift from the home centered family lifestyle to dorm based communal living. This can pose a problem for new students because it takes quite a bit of adjusting to get used to their new surroundings and ways of living. There is also the challenge...
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...many different moments in my life where I am forced to make an educated and well thought out choice between two or more things. For example, after high school I needed to decide on whether or not I wanted to play football in college or just be a full time student and work a job. Oddly enough I ended up choosing college football at a private college over attending a junior college this last fall, a choice I soon came to regret. In a short summary of my first college experience, I jumped into a big decision without thinking enough about it and I am now attending Parkland College and working at JT Walker’s a sports bar in Mahomet, Illinois. I give you an example of a hard choice I have had to make in my life recently because in the next couple of semesters at Parkland College I will need to make another tough decision. Even though I have my major picked out already which is Nursing, I still need to decide whether or not I want to discontinue my education after I get my associates degree to be a Registered Nurse, or to continue on with my education and become a Nurse Practitioner. There are many things to consider when choosing a career, even if they are similar occupations it does not always mean they are the same in every aspect of the job. A few of the topics I will be comparing between my current job and the two I just listed in my essay will be location, salary, environment, and responsibilities. Almost everybody who is out of college and working in their career has the one...
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...Jun 16, 2015 As a Retired Veteran with a distinguish career and living the American Dream, I am now an un-employed husband and a father of a 33 months old son. In May 2013, I moved from Middle Georgia to South Florida for better living and a good way of life for my new family. For over five and a half years, I was working for a major corporation that got their business from the Federal Government contracts by bidding and performing needed services at different locations around the world. Because of government cuts in Sept 2013, I lost my position due to the company's Workforce Reduction Policy and I became unemployed. Luckily, I had saved up a few month’s pay and the company gave me a severance package. From the time I received my official notice letter, I had been applying for different types of Information Technology jobs in the Miami area, attending job fairs, and attending interviews and it all comes down to... "I see you have a lot of experience in the IT field, but do you have this degree and certain certifications that’s required for this position?" I have to say no, but I am working to obtain the current certifications and attending classes toward my degree. Later, you get an email or a follow up call informing you of their non-selection for the position due to whatever reason or justification to fit their needs. Like any other man without a viable source of income, I have to do a new career paradigm and apply for jobs above my current education level. To get the...
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...for Me Attending College Cherry Michelle Underwood Everest College Why am I a college student? Acquiring a college degree is an important part of my professional objectives and life. I am taking a part in college to obtain more comprehension, have the required qualifications to be successful in my profession, and to make my family delighted. I always wanted to manage my own nail and hair salon, so I chose to study Business. As a result, one day I will work for myself in my own nail and hair salon. I plan to start my nail and hair salon and become one of the top salons in Lowndes County. I was very undecidable about attending college at first. Then, I finally realized that if I really wanted to succeed and to achieve then I had to do whatever was necessary for me to do in order to do those things. I made my mind up and signed up for college. I knew that if I had never signed up for college, I would never have the ability to try to get the degree that I need to fulfill my professional goals. I wouldn’t know how to go by starting my own business nor would I be able to manage my own business. I would be lost. I wouldn’t know where to start nor how to start it. My family would feel let down by me because they are holding me up to my words. I told them that I was going to college to get my degree in Business so that I will be able to manage my own business. They are so proud of me and I am doing everything that I can do to succeed and to reach my goals. I also feel that I will...
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