Personal Responsibility-My College Success Gen 200 August 24, 2012 Kimberlee Moravick-Cheng Personal Responsibility-My College Success 1. Overview 2. Identifying Challenges A. Time B. Family C. Work D. School 3. Learning how to balance A. Prioritizing B. Time management C. Study routine D. Setting goal E. Conclusion
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Throughout my life I have been interested in many different things. Take music for example. Some people will listen to one genre and will stick to it. That’s not how I am. I can listen to every type of music out there. I don’t really favor one over the other. Throughout my life this has been typical of every different circumstance that I encountered. I don’t just stick to one group of friends, I have many different friends that are nothing alike. In high school there are people that stick to
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next time. Poorly receiving it can be a burden, weighing down ambitions and discouraging one away from trying just one more time. Recently, I am learning this lesson more consciously everyday. I can either take failure with grace and objectivity or with frustration and discouragement. Everyday I grow more optimistic. Everyday I am learning that success is not about the outcome. Success is about improvement. One could discover that improvement was a motivating factor for me throughout my life.
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Original Issue How do I find more personal time for myself without neglecting my friends and family? Or simply just taking a day to rest, relax or do something fun. Through close observation of my family, friends and myself, I discovered some unhidden feelings of frustration. These feelings originated because of the lack of communication from me to my friends and family. Everyone that I care about are unaware of their demands on my time or how they made me feel when I was deployed and
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Totem Pole Freshman year; A pivotal time in every student's life which dictates the following high school years. Formally known as fresh meat, these individuals are on the bottom of the Totem Pole of Popularity. I, Quinn Jacob, am one of these vulnerable fourteen year olds who have just begun their ninth grade year. Being the geeky, unattractive, slightly appalling girl I am seen as, this is an ideal opportunity for me to transform into what my classmates describe as perfect. This, of course
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There are only three people whom I could count as my true friends throughout my high school. We met one another on the first day of school in my freshman year and ever since then, we stayed really close. We have spent lots of time together, done some stupid things and helped each other out during hard times as well. I felt like the four of us grew together as a family during those four years. However, we had to separate after high school, each choosing our own paths in life. One got married and became
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an interest. So you say to yourself, "I think I'm responsible enough to get a credit card, I'll only use it for emergencies." Then you apply and it may take a couple times to finally be approved for one. This only makes it worse, of course, because you realize how long you have waited and now you get to buy anything you want, after all you don't have to pay it off for a month. The year is 2001, more and more teen's own credit cards and are already establishing their credit history. This essay will
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norms. TV has brought about revolution in many, if not all areas of life, no one can say that their work, family life, leisure time, and school are not in some way influenced by television. TV, its values, moral messages and the lifestyle it promotes all have a serious, negative impact upon children. Watching television is one of the ways many people choose to unwind after a hard day’s work. While television is a major source of entertainment the content the things that are displayed including violence
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I never understood my secret desire to be popular and to avoid being labeled as a loser in the Dark Ages of middle school. The sudden drive to be cool, probably brought on by the plague of puberty. This simple desire was so important to me that I started to abandon what was truly important to me, such as longtime friends, forfeit my grades, good habits, my love for reading, and my constant pursuit for knowledge. However, things didn’t go as planned and I actually never became one of the “popular”
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An essay on my virtual child by Kara Lamb: The gender of my child is male; I named him Nathan after my real life partner. Like my first attempt the program gave us a girl when Nathan was around the age of 3, of which I named Marley. I did not seek outside help for this trial or have help from my real life partner. The application I wanted to focus on was language and how it develops over the time in my virtual child. In early infancy we start to see reflexive cries. An example of this
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