...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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...hear the word College, college, and college. The main drive and goal of many students including myself at this age is getting into a top-notch college virtually guaranteeing future success. However for me, college is a whole new ball game and is not only important for future success, but a broader and bigger bubble. My background actually plays a huge role on why college is important to attend. I come from an immigrant family who has worked day and night to earn money. My mother is both educated and have associate’s degree from India. My dad is educated, but has not gone college. I will be the first one to go to college in America, the country of opportunity. My family’s dearth of education yields that my family background plays an important role in the reason for me to attend college. Attending college is important for me because my parents lacked a phenomenal education, which comes down for me to carry my family pride and attend a rigorous college....
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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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...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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...The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Attending School In The City Of Newark While attending college here at ECC, there are many obstacles I have came across for the short period of time I have been here. Though ECC has many things to offer, the pressure to reach my main goal has been pretty high. I am going to discuss the many advantages and disadvantages I have come across while trying to continue my education in Newark, NJ. One of the things I have experienced at ECC is that it is a very diversified school. There are students who come from many different walks of life who each have a different goal to reach. I have also learned of the many extracurricular programs ECC has to offer such as the Haitian club, the school newspaper and different cultural events in which I am interested in. I also like the transfer & dual admissions programs which allows me to continue my college education at a 4-year college. ECC has let me know that my education does not just stop at the doors of their college. I am also ecstatic in knowing of the tutor programs that ECC has to offer as I have a learning disability in mathematics. I also take pride in the nurturing atmosphere at ECC. This lets me know that there is help in every aspect of my life. It does not just stop at my classes or tutoring sessions. ECC has counselors that you can talk to if there is something you are going through that may hinder you from excelling academically. Even though ECC has all these special things to offer...
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...I am Nikita Ward and I am interested in college. I am a 17 year old girl; I am recently attending Greensboro High School which is a title one school. I am a senior in the graduating class of 2016. I have a 3.5 GPA; I love to help people out so I volunteer whenever I get a chance. I lost my mother to an unknown disease when I was in the eighth grade. Now my father is playing a major role in my sister and I lives. My sister is currently attending UWA Nursing program as a full time student. My father is a single parent and I will do all I can to make him proud. People have been saying I was not going to make it in life and I was not going to average to anything, but I am going to prove them wrong when I make it. My top reasons I want to go to college are to further my education, more job opportunities, and continue my family tradition....
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...My Stresses of Attending College Attending College was never on my list of things to do, now that I am attending college it is extremely stressing at times. I sure did not know it would be so much homework when I enrolled at Strayer. I have to balance my personal life with school; I have house work, helping kids with homework, and dinner that must be done. I'm often left sleep deprived because of the amount of homework I have as a full time student, I may get 5-7 hours of sleep a night. The lack of sleep has affected my performance in college and adds more stress when I do not do well in my classes. I often have to prioritize the work based on the teacher and the grading schedule. If I do not do an assignment can I still get an A; last semester I had to choose to miss two assignments that only had 5 points combined. I now manage the situation by following a schedule. I have started making schedules for doing everything, and anything that does not get done has to wait until another available time. As a result my level of stress has decrease substantily Who Am I Who am I u ask, I am Pauline Dodd and I’m a single mom. I live in Washington D.C. and I attend Strayer University as a fulltime student, I’m studying for my Bachelor Degree in Business Administration. Prior to starting college I worked for an engineering company that was a FEMA contractor. I never knew I would have a chance to attend college, but here I am. I have goals and...
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...Omar Guzman Gonzalez Guzman 1 Jazzy Davenport English 101/197 February 29, 2016 Common College Struggles of a Daily Student Students all over the world depend on a college education in order to succeed in their near future on a career they been focused on the most. They are entitled to complete their degree and go off finding their dream job right after graduation without any sort of obstacles along the way. Well, that is where most students in the generation we live in today are wrong, and should take drastic action on attending college with their head held way up high. Students should advised themselves that it is a whole different approach going into a city college or university, than how it was attending high school. A student attending college faces the most common struggles such as keeping time management to focus on what needs to be turned in on time with study skills in order to do well on any given quiz or exam, payments for tuition, self-living and various books, and the expectations of their family to keep grades held high for the road to success. Any student trying to value their time while attending college can be their number one priority. In an article, “Learn To Manage Your Time” (US NEWS), Kelci Lynn Lucier states, “With so much going on at a college campus, it's no wonder that students can feel and actually be overcommitted when it comes to classes, work, and co-curricular involvement. How can you balance your time when there never seems to...
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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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...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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...I’ve always dreamed of going to college and I was able to achieve that dream. I’m on the Board of Trustees Legacy Scholarship at Prince George’s Community College (PGCC), a scholarship that pays full tuition and fees for four semesters, and I’m also a part of the Transfer Student Alliance with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). I currently have a 3.643 cumulative GPA and I’m in good academic standing despite taking seventeen credits. I participate in the community as a Student Ambassador and my peers and instructors regard me as being friendly and hard-working. But this is still not enough for me. I am attending college by attending Prince George’s Community College but all I feel is restlessness. I feel as if there is always...
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...Journal Entry College is going to be a big step for me coming from a small town. It has been my dream to come to Rend Lake College and pursue a degree in business. Although I struggle a little bit with my comprehension problem, I attend to have a fresh start here at Rend Lake. I decided to attend college because I think it is very important to further my education after High School. It is the next chapter that I am choosing to start in my life. I feel that while attending college I can learn more and grow as a student. My parents are both college graduates so therefore I feel as if it is expected of me to attend college and get a degree. It is known that by attending college students solve problems and handle decisions properly. Sometimes people may think that a High School education is enough for them, it is not for me. It is very important for me to strive to get the highest education I can possibly get. With a high education there is a very good possibility in getting jobs where you receive higher pay and I will be less likely to face unemployment. I am more likely to have more career choices and will probably be able to change careers more easily than those who have not completed some form of higher education. I feel like after college the education I will receive will prepare me mentally and physically for the real world. My goal as of now is to attend college at Rend Lake for two years and receive my business degree. I then plan on attending SIUC for four...
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...professional has become an exciting endeavor I have decided to embark upon to achieve my goal of becoming a human resources senior certified professional for a successful company or government agency within the next five years. Earlier this year I joined a local chapter for SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) and began attending monthly educational training sessions on various human resources related topics to gain more knowledge of the HR industry for a position I held as business development manager for a staffing agency. I quickly realized that I truly enjoyed attending the trainings and the information I was learning. I also realized that I no longer had any desire to work in a sales or business development capacity but instead make a career change into...
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...In Order to be eligible for In-State Tuition, you MUST complete this form THE ALABAMA COLLEGE SYSTEM CERTIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY FOR IN-STATE TUITION In order to be eligible for in-state tuition, you MUST complete this form and fall into ONE or more of the following categories: I. Legal Resident of the State of Alabama I (or my non-estranged spouse) have lived in the state of Alabama for at least 12 continuous months immediately preceding my application for admission. I am a dependent student and my parent/legal guardian has lived in the state of Alabama for at least 12 continuous months immediately preceding my application for admission. I graduated from an Alabama High School or obtained a GED in the State of Alabama within three years of the date of my application for admissions. I have more substantial connections with the State of Alabama than any other state. Check all that apply: Location of high school graduation. Payment of Alabama State income tax as a resident. Ownership of residence or other real property in the state and payment of ad valorem taxes on the residence or property. Full-time employment in the state. Residency in-state of spouse, parents, or children. Previous periods of residency in the state for one year or more. Voter registration and voting in the state. Possession of state or local licenses to do business or practice a profession in the state. Ownership of personal property in the state, payment of state taxes on property, and possession of state...
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