step. So should everyone go to college? Well if you’re stuck in a rock and a hard place you should look at your options. There will be some bumps in the road on this journey you take. The cost of college may discourage some potential students. People have argued that college is a perquisite to enter the middle class (Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill Page 208.) Higher education is one of the best investments you can make according to, President Barack Obama. College graduates make more money in their
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Throughout middle school and my previous year of high school, I have thought that I would not attend college. College was an overwhelming idea, for I did not believe in myself. The media, movies, and shows on television all portray college two ways. One of the ways in which college is portrayed is consecutive-day partying and the other being late night studying and intense stress. I never found myself to be one to enjoy
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Being a first-generation student, the road to college has not been easy. During high school, I did not have someone to mentor me, whether this meant taking extra AP courses or SAT prep. Even though my parents only went to secondary school, they constantly implemented that going to college meant a better future. I comprehended that after high school I had to go to college, however I had no idea how I would get there. As my high school graduation approached, I realized that the applications for out
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scholarship. If I were to be awarded this scholarship, it would take some weight off my shoulders in terms of paying for tuition and I would be able to divert my attention to community service in a new environment. Upon selecting my first choice college, I was looking into universities that would allow me to help the community in multiple ways. Corpus Christi, TX would allow me to participate in a variety of society service projects. I plan to join a sorority
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My college experience For the last 8 years I have gained a lot of experience while being in the military and never really thought what I can gain from college. The last couple years I have been taking online classes and I havent really thought of what I can gain from them. As I read the topic for this week I started to think to myself what can I gain from my college experience and this is what came to my head. I can sharpen my skills in the field I chose, it also helps me get over the fear of not
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and just in life in general. In order to do this, I must work towards my goal of mechanical engineering. One path to this goal, and an efficient one at that, is the UC system. I think that this level of inspiration that I am not only going through college for my own dreams of mechanical engineering, but also my parents’ dreams of my success would make me a very effective student within the UC
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My College Success I am facing many struggles to become a successful college student. First of all, finances are difficult. Presently, I am working 40 hours every week at Whole Foods. Every day I get home from work at 7 P.M. Immediately upon arriving home I shower and have dinner. I assist my son with his homework and then begin studying and completing my homework. I study until 2 A.M. Customarily, I wake up at 6 A.M . I have breakfast, get dressed for school, assist my son in getting ready
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My college career thus far has been somewhat chaotic. Each semester I have taken a full, rigorous course-load, maintained over thirty hours each week at my part-time job, continuously gained hands on knowledge from various internships each semester, maintained a committed membership in two honor societies, taken an active role in community service and helped to take care of my disabled brother, all while maintaining 3.8 grade point average. Multi-tasking and time management are second nature to me
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As the semester is coming to an end, it feels weird how time has gone by so fast! When I first came to school, I was very nervous and eager as to what to expect. Now almost a semester into college, I have learned more than I could imagine. The first challenge I faced was being sick away from home, without the comfort and TLC of my parents. Right after parents weekend, I started to get a bad cough, headaches, and severe congestion that landed me in the health center twice. I also got a fever and a
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As a sophomore in college I have begun to learn to expect changes in my goals. Throughout this past year I have achieved things I never thought I would have achieved and as a consequence, feel that my personal and educational goals have started to become far more ambitious. My main goal in college, as it always has been, is to expand and achieve higher critical thinking, and skills in creativity, technical, and communication that will enable me to perform more effectively in my daily life and career
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Miami has always been my first love. I grew up in North Miami, and I went to school in the Miami Dade Public school system. I went to North Miami Middle, North Miami Senior and Miami Dade College. I am a proud product of Miami Dade, and I desire to give back to my community. I was not always sure on my career goal as a child, but I have always been passionate about giving back to my community and help in the best way that I can. Miami Dade County is where I place my heart. My teachers inspire me
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life I will have to make a decision to either go to college or not. The positive thing about going to college is you are almost guaranteed better job than a person right out of high school. The negative thing about college is you have to be away from your family for awhile, and it cost so much to go to college. I will probably go to college to get a better job and better education, so in the future i will make more money when i'm an adult. College is a good thing to go for in life as many people have
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My time in Community College has been vastly different from what I expected it to be. College can be exhausting at times and exhilarating at others, but it also presents a fun and challenging environment to explore. It can cause you to question yourself, even at your most confident, or give you the conviction you never had before. The experience that I’ve had while attending Camden County College contain a few of the greatest moments of my academic life. College has shaped me in ways I didn’t think
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told me she’d signed me up for my first year of college I’d thought she was joking. I had been saying that I wanted to go but just the thought of it stressed me out so I never did anything. This first semester has been one of the most stressful things I’ve ever done, school in general is the most stressful thing for me. Although I knew college would be stressful, I also thought it would be extremely intimidating. My biggest fear coming into college was that I wouldn’t remember the things I learned
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It’s never too late to go after your dreams and achieve your goals. I grew up thinking there was one way to go about life to meet that goal to graduate from college. Do well in school, graduate High School, go to college, graduate. However, life doesn’t always work out that way. Though I can’t complain. I have been able to travel all across this great nation, and even some other countries. I have moved across the country 4 times, spent 3 months in Korea, where I was immersed in a new language and
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you need the new clothing by?” “Hey Dad, all my friends have smartphones, I was wondering if maybe you and mom could buy me one for Christmas” “S- sorry Xeng, we can’t afford a smartphone right now.” “Mom, Dad, I want to go to college.” “…” College, what exactly is college? Some would say it’s the gateway to opportunities and the sinkhole to endless debt. My parents often told me that, especially my mom. But because of the circumstances, I cannot blame them for saying such discouraging words. Having
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My community college experience has been an uphill climb. When I started College, it was fairly easy because the first two semesters I took core classes and it was revision of everything I had knew from high school. Once the third semester started and I took harder courses such as Honors Biology, it became more of a challenge. Honors Biology is the hardest course I have taken so far, but I look at it as a good experience because for the past two semester, my brain has been working at merely high
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Before internet and email, before smart devices and twitter took over the universe, Northland College was a conduit for bringing vastly different worlds together. In summer of 1992, after receiving my K-12 public education within a single school district in West Virginia, my love of adventure and exploring nature led me 1,700 miles northwest to rural northern Wisconsin. I remember looking forward to the challenge of being immersed in a vastly different place and culture from that of my experience
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My five top goals as a student are first to graduate college and get my degree. I have been attending Bethel University working on a bachelor's degree since 2013. It has been a rough but overall good experience. The facilitators are friendly, meet respectful I met new friends on this journey. The next goal is to make sure my daughter’s get their education. My two oldest are in the 10th,11th grade at Early College High School. My next goal why I am a student is to buy a house after I graduate. Become
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Eric Knoll, Writing Sample, ENG 111, 9/1/16 I think of myself as a subpar writer for being in a college class. I never enjoyed writing in school, it never grabbed my attention like other things. My planning stage of writing is, what i think, my strongest part of the writing process. If I got to choose what I would like to improve on the most this semester is the first draft. In school, english was never my favorite subject. Even though I use almost everything from english class everyday without
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Continuing my wrestling career in college has been a goal of mine since I was in the fifth grade. When I moved to Texas in the fifth grade I was really nervous about wrestling in a different state. I remember my first practice in Texas like it was yesterday, I walked in to the one hundred degree, steamy wrestling room and the first person I see is Olympic wrestler Jordan Burroughs. He was there to give a speech and show some technique. Jordan talked about one thing that still sticks with me to this
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A trip down memory lane brings back a harsh scene of me collecting my high school transcript and hanging my head down low in disappointment. I was devastated and teary-eyed, from looking at my less than mediocre results. In that moment, I questioned if school was ever going to be an option for me again. Maybe, I just wasn't smart or intelligent enough to pursue higher education. I then decided to enlist in the military for my national service. The real life danger and obstacles encountered have been
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Throughout the semester of my first actual college class I have learned a lot. As I look back on the semester I have found many things that should have been done differently and things that should have been done in general.Being an Early College student is a lot of work as I have found out this semester. Although this was my second year being in the Early college program this was my first real actual college class. The previous classes that I have took at early college have been, ACA 111, PED 142, PED 120
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Without determination in college there is no future. There is no hiding the fact that college is not an easy thing to do. Before it can even begin, there’s so much information to take in the first few days, that suddenly it can feel overwhelming and stressful. If someone has an ear for learning and challenging theirselves and they asked me if college was a good idea then i would gladly encourage that person one hundred percent.. Being a student has taught me many different things about myself. It
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with the passing grade, instead of succeeding. The consequences of me not doing the best in school was not getting the scores I wanted or needed to have on standardized tests, which rejected me from getting me into the schools I wanted to attend. In college, I've learn my lessons in high school; I have a lot of goals I want to achieve in my life and I need the right education to take me to my goals. As a young woman, I'm still finding myself and what my purpose in life is. I'm having a hard
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person. I guess that’s what problems are really for. Problems are made for us to develop our capabilities in handling difficult situations we may encounter in our lifetime. Some difficult situations that I have run into are figuring out where to go to college at, what I want to major in, and what kind of people do I want to hang out and socialize, etc. Growing up, I really had no idea what I wanted to do in life or what kind of job I wanted. I never thought that it would be so hard to choose a major that
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Not everyone faces anxiety, but face hard times and deal with it differently. Going to college as a first-time student is a hard transition, if you have never taken a course in high school that you had to give your full attention towards even with taking many other courses. College classes have much more expectations for their class than your typical high school class. My transition from high school to college had a really hard toll on me because I never thought it would give me this many problems
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Dead Writing about the narrative in ‘Shop Dead’ Shop Dead is written by Kate Cann and the novel is based a girl named Melanie who has an obsession with beauty. Everything in her life, her family, friends and relationships revolved around her appearance. She wanted to be like the Dummies in the shop. The words in the title ‘Shop’ and ‘Dead’ literally is the message of the story of how Melanie dies with this illness of being obsessed with her exterior looks. Kate Cann’s narrative method in this novel
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Mike Rose is an educator. He studied the literacy and struggles of working class America. The narrative of his experience as student of working-class status gives him a considerable amount of ethos. As for his argument, I feel is the direct opposite of this selections title, ‘I Just Wanna Be Average’. Rose begins his narrative with his accident that leads him to his discovery. Having to fight like those whose destiny has been chosen gave him the perspective of those who strive just to be average
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Proof Text 1 was the very first draft of my literacy narrative. After having completed that, I felt very accomplished because never in my high school career did I write a “shitty draft” to then build from. My first draft would always be my last draft. I was able to focus and to write a good amount that then helped me compose my literacy narrative. My professor helped me understand that my thoughts did not have to be organized, but written down because
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