Teachers, Family, and even people you meet on the street always asks me at least once what I am going to do with my future. I had my life planned out for me when I was young. My father is retired Navy and wanted me to join the Air Force for as long as I remember. I considered more options then just military. In the middle and high schools I was pushed to college. I assumed the only options I had was college or military. The benefits of joining the military is great. From what my family told me. I would get transportation to wherever the boot camp is for Air Force. I would never get fired unless something disastrous. I would get free room and board, a advanced paycheck and travel the world. I could even get a free scholarship for my choice No chances of that in the military, no matter how badly my family wants me to go. So my own choices is college or working straight out of high school. Picture this, I wasn 't too bad of a student but still have pretty awful grades. The only curricular activities I ever tried doing was Theater. My only decent subjects was Art and Reading. Could I even get into a college? I wondered and decided the only way to make a living was working out of high school. Like what my mother did. But living off the jobs from that I 've found is impossible. I 've took a year off after high school to decide what I wanted. I 've became a apprentice of a artist in New Orleans to help start my career while on my break. He taught me a lot about how to run your own business and gain customers. He greatly influenced my decision on college. Question is this. How to get in and pay for I decided that my calling is art and my path to that is college. I have to tell my family. The very family that pressed me into any branch of military for all my life. I had support with my mom and together we got my dad reluctantly on board. My father 's family wasn 't as supportive nor was most of my mom 's. Even so, I asked them advice on colleges I should consider and how to plan to get into them. I researched online many times. Looking at another perspective helped me. I found out they is many ways to pay for colleges. I also found out community colleges will pretty much accept anyone. I narrowed my selection down to MGCC, PRCC, and Memphis College of Art. Singled my college to PRCC because it was the closest to my house that I did not have to drive too. Went to Poplarville and filled out the applications and the instructor said I should fill out the FAFSA. I filled it out after several tries. For some reason the website was on a cycle of submit then log in then create and over again. Once I finally got it to submit my application I was relieved. The days to my first day of college looming over me and hurried to gather things I know I would need. I realized the money from FAFSA that would pay my college was not showing up. I called the PRCC IT and FAFSA help to figure it out. Finally, I got everything settled and the time raced by until it was the first day. I know my decision in going
“Coastal Carolina is too far away for you to come home when you have the chance.” Kaylee (my Girlfriend at the time) said to me in my first car as we talked about college choices. I told her about my acceptance to Coastal Carolina University I received from Mrs. Emmons (personal guidance counselor in high school) during a school day, early February. Kaylee’s words made me start a to question myself; “What other colleges can I choose?”. I came home and sat down with my parents in the living room with my Coastal Carolina acceptance letter in my hand and they were proud of me. I asked my parents the same question I asked myself earlier that day “What other colleges can I choose from?”. When
People after high school should have a plan, well at least an idea. That idea will depend on the person and the person’s idea of what they want to do for themselves after high school. I am sure that no one’s parents will say to their kid,” stay home and not go to work”. Let’s say a person wants to go to the Coast Guard, well that is very vague and there are many things the Coast Guard offers. Let’s say they wanted to go to the Coast Guard but didn’t know how. Here’s how to get started.
In 1943, with World War 2 in full throttle, Ayn Rand’s novel “The Fountainhead” was published. Written during a chaotic period in history, this book appeals to the reader's emotions by promoting individual rights, capitalism, and romantic realism. Rand advocated reason along with ethical and rational egoism and opposed collectivism. The main protagonist in the book is named “Howard Roark”. Howard Roark has a love interest named “Dominique Francon”. Dominique is in love with Roark yet she still wants to destroy him because Dominique thinks that Roark’s greatness is going to go unappreciated.
When people are younger everyone always ask what do you want to be when you are older? Of course when it is children everyone is filled with wonder about their answer whether it’s a model, astronaut, race car driver, etc. Now that I’m older it’s expected for me to know exactly what to do with my life and how to do it. I realized very soon that I sometimes can be an indecisive person when it comes to life-long decisions. This being a huge decision in one’s life you could only imagine how many times I’ve changed my idea on what to go to school for. Although, changing my mind become a norm, I eventually decided a degree in business/marketing is the right path for me. What are my career and educational goals, what will my job would be like, and
Although most people would consider it a normal thing to do, for me it was a big decision to make. For the first time in my life I was the one who had to decide whether I should go to college or do something else with my life. My choice was to go to continue my education by going to college and I consider this decision as free because nobody forced me to do so. After reflecting on the subject before and after reading some articles on free will, I realize that it was not really a free will decision but it was more like a cause, it was caused. The reason I said that is because I realize that the society in which I grew up paved the way for me to make such choice. If I did not grow up in a society where most of the people that have a decent life had to go to school to get a better job in order to give their family a better life, I could have chosen not go to school. In his book “The Illusion of Conscious Will,” Daniel Wegner explains how a plan can be a causal agency (page 19). In my case I have always plan to be an engineer and the only way to be an engineer is to go to college, so when it was time to decide whether to go to college or not, the choice was easy and anyone that I knew could have predicted the choice I would
What was I to do if I didn’t know where I was going? Since I didn’t take any credit hours from a college while I was in high school I was granted a $10,000 scholarship that is split between two years. The only thing I had to do was attend a university. I started cracking down on colleges and prices. After being accepted into Fort Hays State University, I realizing how far the college was a total of five hours, I decided to look closer. I looked at Pittsburg State, but they didn’t have as strong as a fine arts program as Wichita State University. When my decision was final I went to my counselor and asked her what I needed to do after being accepted to Wichita State University. She helped me as much as she could and after realizing I was a first generation college student she told me I would have a lot of
Everyone at one point has to make a decision on what they want to be when they grow up. For me, that decision came rather unexpectedly and was a result of a new found interest due to self-discovery. It all began when I was around the age of 8 and I watched a documentary on aircraft. It documented all about planes, how they work and the science behind them. I was immediately captivated and gaining all that information as a young child really hit the spot in terms of a new found passion and interest that I could see myself later using. This passion stuck with me ever since as I have spent tons of spare time studying different types of aircraft and collecting model planes. It ultimately helped me with my answer to the question of what I wanted to be when I grew up as being an aeronautical engineer. It is not a career most would pursue, but it shows how self-discovery impacted me at a very young age and the impact is so log lasting that it has influenced most of the decision I make now in terms of courses I take at school and the extracurricular activities I am a part of. Without self-discovery, I was able to gain an understanding of where my interests lay, the abilities I have to acquire complex information and the feelings I had towards my new found interest and
The military life will straighten you out, in the best way, make you responsible, intelligent, teaches you survival skills. Not to mention all of the benefits that come with, for yourself and your future family. It opens your eyes to a whole new perspective, you will see how different life is in other places of the world, meet so many unique persons, live through tons upon tons of exhilarating experiences. I strongly believe you will come out a whole different person, a better version of you. Stronger, braver, confident. It's a whole different world out there, and I'm ready to see it from the front
When department store manager Jean Fanuchi noticed a decline in net profit sales three consecutive months in a row, she turned to hidden cameras and microphones. When all possibilities narrowed down to employee theft and a series of procedures failed to turn up any clues, desperation led Jean to resort to these measures. How might have Jean’s actions been influenced by morality or the law? Although morality and the law may seem inseparable at first, they can be distinguished from one another. Even then, there seems to be a connection bridging the two. What is their relationship and can one alter the other? Can one be attributed to another or take precedence over the other? In moral philosophy (ethics) this matter is open for much debate, especially when other viable and less invasive solutions exist.
People may argue that if one joins the military before college they will not get the same college experience as their friends,But that doesnt matters. People also feel as if one may not be mentally ready for the military. There are certain skills and abilities one must enherit throughout college that may help prepare for whats to come in the future. One last argument is that if you join the military before school your not bound to get the MOS ( job ) you desire. Conversly , The pros of joining the military before college outweighs the cons of joining the military before
When I was seventeen I nervously traveled about 350 miles from my sleepy little home town of Freedom, Wyoming to the relatively enormous city of Boise, Idaho to go to the Military Entrance Processing Station. This wasn 't the first time I had been this far from home by myself, but it was the first time I was making adult decisions without my parents involvement. When it came time for me to choose my job in the army the counselors presented me with a long list that I qualified for. I got tired of scrolling and reading so I chose the first job that I actually understood. I returned home and excitedly told my parents that I would be an infantry soldier. My dad 's response to this might be considered a little less than heart warming “You dumb ass. Why didn 't you choose
When I first got to college I needed a way to pay for school, so I enlisted in the Army Reserves and was shipped out to basic combat training. At basic combat training I learned of the differences between an officer and an enlisted soldier. I had a phenomenal company commander who was a ROTC cadet who told me all about the program and the responsibilities of an officer. Once I returned from basic combat training I got in contact with the recruiter for UAB ROTC and joined the program. These decisions helped me pay for college, a big reason I initialed joined the Army.
The day I finally signed up to join the military I knew I was taking a risk in my life. I believe it is important to take risks in life to move into bigger and better things. My first huge decision I made in my life was to join the United States Air Force. My uncle was the main person who put the idea in my head but my dad and my friends thought otherwise. My parents were divorced when I was young and I didn’t have the privilege like my friends to sit down and talk their decisions through with their parents. My father was excluded from the draft after he got in a car accident and I didn’t think he was very fond me joining the service. The main reason I chose to go into the military was make the decision to serve the country. The major decision in my opinion to join the military is to have the privilege to serve your own country. I think it is great for young men and woman to have ambition to serve and it can change a person into very motivated individual. My uncle and my mother were both very supportive and thought that it would be a great decision in my life. My mother knew it would be hard to see me go but was excited of the idea of coming to visit me in Texas. I knew it was taking a big risk being on my own but I was ready for a change in my life.
Now that we have explored my past, present, and future experiences with diversity, it is time to see how they are present within and effect each other. Firstly, let’s look into how my future is present in my past. The most obvious portion of my future that is in my past is my willingness and efforts to love and include everyone and to spread this world view. It took a fellow classmate of mine to demonstrate to my third grade self that we are all human beings and we all deserve to be treated as such. In my future, I aspire to demonstrate this world view to my students and inspire them to treat each other accordingly. This aspiration directly reflects my world view struggles I went through in third grade, for I want to help my students come to