Almost every college students has gone through the process of taking classes their first semester that will have nothing to do with what they want to do with their life. There are two types of incoming freshmen at college; the first is the freshman that has an exact plan in terms of a major and career they want to pursue. The second is the college student that has no idea or plan when they come to college. All freshmen have to take “gen eds” and you can tell which students might find these pointless
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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
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Personal Responsibility and Success in Education Gennifer Smith GEN/200 FOUNDATIONS FOR GENERAL EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS April 28, 2014 Susan Ward Personal Responsibility and Success in Education In this paper, I will talk about personal responsibility, and the role it plays in a student's education. If a person wants to succeed in college, then they have to take charge of their own education. They have to make sure that they get the "most bang for their
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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 have set many goals for myself, today I will share three of these goals with you. Education is an important attribute to succeeding in life. Without any kind of education, you will
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personal responsibility and what it means to me, the relationship between personal responsibility and college success, and the preliminary plan to practice personal responsibility in my education. Individuals could interpret the significance of personal responsibility in many ways. Some may say it as having integrity. Many may think that it is taking responsibility in life. These are all good clarification of personal responsibility, personal responsibility to me means admitting to my mistakes and taking
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Personal Responsibility Marassa Crawford GEN/200 Foundations for General Education and Professional Success Missie Usry Taking Personal Responsibility Should it no longer be my personal responsibility to complete a task, once an obstacle or challenge has prevented it from happening? Should I not take personal responsibility for my decisions and actions, or blame someone else and make excuses for something I did not complete? Once I have accepted to complete a specific task or goal, it becomes
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there anything in either the University of Phoenix Student Code of Conduct or the Student Code of Academic Integrity that surprised you? If so, what was it? Why were you surprised? If not, why not? When reading the University Of Phoenix Student Code Of Conduct or the Student Code of Academic Integrity there was not really anything that surprised me. Throughout my work life and life in general I have become accustom to guidelines like these. For the most part, it is basically common knowledge. The individual
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Fresh out of high school, I didn’t choose to attend college like rest of classmates. “Why?” Friends asked me, out of concern and curiosity. Well, I had my reasons: Lack of stable income to pay for the tuition; Didn’t want to be caged in one place ; Unwillingness to accept the career path that parents had chosen for me; And partly because of those teenager hormones running through my veins, caused me to make irrational decisions. Long story short, I decided to join the US Navy for the opportunity
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and uncle inspired me to attend college. They taught me that getting an education was an honor and a freedom especially, a college education. My uncle and mother would tell us the story when they grow up and how the darker people was not given the opportunity to get a college education, and the light color people were usually in the house, and these people were known to have the opportunity to go to college, and that her father was among the people who could to go to college. So they knew the values
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their journey toward higher education in an unfamiliar country. Did the presence of family, friends, mentors as well as student diversity on their college campus play a role in their academic success? Mr. Smith, Mr. Pier and Ms. Mal from Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Haiti, respectively, expressed what it felt like, leaving behind the familiar for the unfamiliar.
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