...Perusing a Bachelors Degree in Chemistry was not at the forefront of my list of things to do when I grew up, actually attending college was not on my list of things to do either but I am here now. You see while I was in high school my mother moved me around so much that I eventually attended three different high schools and dropped out during my last semester. I had moved around so much that I didn't really fit in having started a new school the last semester of senior year. Why didn't I tough it out? Well, I had no idea how to pay for college, I didn't think I was smart enough for college and didn't have anyone to help guide me or support me. So I went to a technical college and earned a certificate in Phlebotomy, and worked in hospitals and blood...
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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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...during every Serbian gathering. I recall myself searching for an answer acceptable for my Serbian community, especially for all the grandmas asking me every Sunday. Yet, I neglected to determine what I truly wanted to be. Years later, I started volunteering at St. Luke’s Medical Center in the summer of my sophomore year, and little did I know how transformative this experience would be. Initially, I came in as any high school student with the intent of earning volunteer hours for my school’s National Honor Society. I wanted to choose an undemanding job: flower desk. It was an adequate job, but certainly tedious. Consequently, I arrived to the conclusion that there...
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...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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...To be completely honest, I have never been much of a leader. I have always been a bit shy and I never really liked the idea of telling anyone what to do. The only times I ever really take the role of leader is to my siblings or when I get stuck with working with a group that wants to procrastinate for school projects. Other than that there, I choose to let others take the role, unless I see that they are struggling or tormenting the people they are leading. One of the main reasons I am trying so hard to go to college is because of my three younger brothers. Of course, I do it for myself as well, but my younger brothers and I grew up with people telling us that we would not go to college because we would either get married straight out...
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...I radically refuse to be called a Dreamer, although I understand the logic behind of this term. The word " Dreamer " elicit in me the image of someone who has great plans for the future, but never is willing to stand up, overcome the obstacle that stand in the way and make his or her dreams true. I will rather be known as a doer because I assiduously pursue my dreams. For Instance, nobody believed I could be admitted to any university. I moved from the Dominican Republic to the United States of America about six years ago with none English language skills at all when I was on the mid of my sophomore year in high school. After school, I had to work to help in the household. A Spanish-speaking women with very low English proficiency, whose parents have low-income, does not have future. All that was expected of me was that to continue the pattern of many Latino immigrants: work in factories, or retail settings for the minimum wage. Nevertheless, although there is nothing wrong with being a blue collar worker, I did not want this for my future. I knew that we, the Latinos community, were underserved in all the spectrum from education to mental health services, because there were not many Latinos out there who advocates in our favor. I wanted to change it, and I knew that it can be possible only with education. Therefore, I worked hard to improve my language skills and in my senior year I was accepted into Kean...
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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. I did a...
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...Why Did I Enroll in College I often ask myself why. Why did you decide to go to college? Well first off, I have just started my family. So therefore, I am going to need to get my future set straight in order to support this family. What better way than to enroll in college? In this essay I will briefly explain why I enrolled in college. Also, the qualities I need to use in order to be successful in college. Qualities that I am going to use will definitely give me nothing but the best, and me personally I strive for the best. While in college I would love to gain the most out of it. The last thing I plan on talking about is certain obstacles I will have to overcome in order to be successful in receiving my degree. Why did I enroll in college? My reasons for enrolling in college are pretty simple. First things first, I really want to work towards getting my degree and become a teacher. I have wanted to be a teacher all my life. Honestly I don’t know what made me want to become a teacher, but it has stuck with me since I first decided what I wanted to be. I have the up-most respect for teachers, due to the fact that they put up with so much from students. So I believe I need to put forth the effort and take over for someone who is ready to get out of the teaching life. Another reason I decided to enroll in college, I really want to experience new things. This is a never ending issue; I am the type of person who constantly wants to experience something new. I joined the military...
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...force or college. School is designed to prepare people for the next stage of their lives, I think of it as practice. I am in college to prepare for a career and not a job, my education is the difference between being happy with my work and working to live, as of now I am not fulfilling my duties as a student. I often ask myself why am I here, sometimes I ignore the question other times my answer varies from “to make your dad proud” or to “prove your mom wrong”. Neither of those answers is honest or is a product of consideration and deep thought. The actual reason why I’m here is because this is the only way I can get to where I want to be in life. I want to teach preschool and I am here to prepare and educate myself on what it takes to be an educator. I am going to be honest, I am a very lazy person and if I am going to work I want to be doing something that I actually enjoy doing. I want to live to work and not work to live. I don’t want to work hard at something and my only reward is the money at the end of the day, I want to go home and be proud of what I’ve spent my day doing. I feel like money is often mistaken with happiness so people worry less about what makes them happy than what makes them money. I can’t bring myself to do this so I am here to prepare myself for my future career and not my future job. I’m not going to say that my education means everything to me but it is very important. It is the one thing I need to achieve the things that I have planned...
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...“Why College Education is Important to Me” “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” -Nelson Mandela. I have been to war, I do not wish to see it again. I want a college education at this time in my life to prepare my family for the future when I will be the primary bread winner in the home. I want to be able to finish what I have started and stopped so many years ago. I want to have a college education so I can prove to my children that they have a smart Mommy who can and will do anything to ensure they are taken care of. College education has nothing but benefits for me and my family. I want to change my family’s world. In a few years my husband will be retiring from the US Army. I would like it to be my turn to take care of our family instead of having my husband feel the burden of financial stability again. According to an article in The New York Times “Americans with four-year college degrees made 98 percent more an hour on average in 2013 than people without a degree”. Who can argue the financial benefits for having a degree in the workplace? My husband also does not hold a degree, he holds only experience. I want to set our family at ease by taking on the role of number one money maker in our home even before my husband’s retirement. Having my degree takes me one step closer to making the money needed to relieve financial stress from my family. A college education is key to my future and my husband’s eventual retirement...
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...Should College Athletes be Paid? Why should college athletes be paid or not? In this article it says, “Big time college football and basketball programs generate billions a year in TV and marketing contracts, tickets sales, and merchandising.” Why I choose this topic is because If the college players don't bring any money for the TV , tickets, and merchandising then that is wrong. They should, at least, have 10% of what they sell that has the player's last name on it .I am on the pro side why I am is because If a person buys an item that has something to do with them, then they should be paid a little amount of what the regular price is of the item. I am going to tell you a few Pros about college players getting paid. First of all, in the text it says, “ Big time college football and basketball programs generate billions a year.” My question is how does the franchise make billions a year. They make billions a year from the players who, when the games and consistently bowl games and don't even bring a little bit poor because people consider they are amateurs and they will do something poor with the money like use it on things that...
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...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 college success is also important to me. I have procrastinated for so long about going to college and...
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...My topic is a topic I am sure runs through the head of at least ninety percent of all college students. Why should all college majors require you to take college algebra? The requirements for your basic college classes include college algebra. Without the proper ACT score you will be taking remedial algebra before you reach college algebra. For those who don’t know college algebra is a very difficult class. About fifty eight percent of all students who take it fail it at least once. It is especially difficult for the people who fall under the same class as me that struggle with math even before college algebra. The reason I chose this topic is because I know how extremely challenging this class is and I believe it is unfair for colleges to...
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...Why College Is Important To Me There are so many reasons why college is important to me. However, the two most important reasons why college is important to me is that I want to be a role model for my two daughters. Secondly, furthering my education can mean a many great opportunities for advancing in my career and in life. Leading or setting the example for my daughters is very important to me. By actively portraying to my daughters the importance of having a college education after high school, they will engage into participating in a plethora of new opportunities in their own lives which will enhance their way of living. They see how hard I study and how important my grades are to me that it encourages them to do the same in their high school studies now. They actively partake in my studies now, which in turn, results in them asking me questions on what I am studying. Having them involved is having them engaged in their own thought processes. If I have done that for them then I feel like I am doing my job as a Mother. I encourage them to follow in my footsteps so that they can have a better life for themselves. The second reason college is so important to me is the fact it will change my way of life. Studies show that a college education leads to better paying careers and/or advancements in a career. Having a better paying career will give me the opportunity to pay to further my daughters’ college education. It will allow me to advance in my career now...
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...Why I am returning to school Danielle Brown ENG 121 English Composition I Prof. Michaela Vargas April 15, 2012 Why I am returning to school On December 8 2011, I decided to return back to school to get a degree in something I can enjoy doing until I retire. Anymore you need a degree to get a good career job. So these are my choices and my reasons for coming back to school. There are some good benefits from returning to school and also some obstacles I am to overcome for getting my degree. There are also changes in my lifestyle I have to change in order to earn my degree. I chose to come back to school for a numerous of reasons, to better myself, to be a role model for my girls and do good for my family, to get a good career job, and also to be a few from my family to get a college degree. Some of the benefits of getting a college degree are being able to get a good paying career job that you can be happy with and enjoy going to work. After I graduate and earn my degree, I will feel like I actually completed something big in my life. Another benefit is my support system supporting me the whole way through me earning a degree. A good benefit would be to get a good paying career job after earning my degree. Some of the changes I have had to encounter are since I have separated from the Navy. I have been a stay at home mom. I just really have to work around my girls and the house cleaning and any errands I have. I am not used to being at home all of the time and I really...
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