1.Discuss your reasons for pursuing the Major/Academic Program selected above?
My personality and personal experiences have helped me to decide upon accounting as my chosen major. Before I immigrated to the United States in 2010, I had a small business in China for more than nine years. This experience and my desire to be an entrepreneur taught me the importance of accounting. In order to manage my business well, I attended a course in basic accounting at a local training institute. While in training, I learned that I loved working with numbers and applying financial analysis to economic issues. I have a passion for finance, economic issues, accounting principles, and the world of business and this has guided me to pursue an accounting major.
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I cannot recall how many of these I have gone through in my life, but I can recall one which happened two years ago that taught me the value of helping others and remaining positive. When my daughter was about two years old, she caught a stomach virus from her preschool; and not long after, my husband fell ill and had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance. After a week in the hospital, the doctors still could not figure out what was wrong with my husband. I was faced with the stress of caring for my daughter, worrying about my husband, and managing school work. We hired a sitter who was unable to come to the house every day, and I soon felt I was on the edge of a nervous breakdown. I had to remind myself several times each day that I could overcome this situation. I reminded myself that I was strong but still, I wished with all my heart that someone would come to help. My own family was half a world away, and my husband’s family lived far from us as well. One day, our neighbor Linda came over and offered to help. I could not find the words to express how much I appreciated her help, and I will never forget her …show more content…
If your education was or will be interrupted, indicate the reason for the interruption and provide details.
I truly do not believe anything can interrupt me from pursing my dream of getting a degree. This has been my dream for many years, and it is an opportunity I treasure with all my heart. Before immigrating to the United States, I believed my dreams of a university degree would never come true because of my country’s educational system, my family’s cultural beliefs, and financial limitations. I come from a traditional Chinese family whose beliefs of girls attaining higher education is beyond the norm. Boys are considered the family treasure and, therefore, are the ones who are supported in their dreams of higher education.
During my studies at Wake Tech Community College, I was thrilled at the classes that I was able to take and am enjoying the knowledge I have acquired and how it has opened my mind. I often reflect upon how privileged I am as a new immigrant that, at my age, I can sit in the same classroom with other students who are much younger than me enjoying the same knowledge. I truly appreciate this country and its wonderful educational system and feel nothing can stop
The most stressful and challenging situation was during my volunteering in the Rehab unit at the hospital. I was assigned to help a student therapist in assisting a patient in walking. The Patient was overweight and it usually takes more than two people when assisting the patient in walking but the therapist and the patient felt confidant enough that she would be able to walk without much help. When the therapist and I began to assist her in standing the patients knees buckled under her and she fell and began screaming in pain. The combined strength of the therapist and I were not enough to help get up and the only thing we were able to do was straighten out her legs and comfort her until more help came. I felt really bad what happen but
It is the American dream to get out of high school and to start working towards your degree, right? Perusing a degree in the United States is not as dream like for some students. Many factors such as the learning environment, where you come from, and the knowledge and will power can shape how the higher education experience can go. While not all of these factors necessarily point to a rough or tough college experience, but also show that we as a nation could help our students be more educated and prepared to pursue and finish a degree. All students should be given equal opportunity and tools to become a successful member of society.
My youth pastor pulled out of our church parking lot at three am in the morning loaded down with a bus full of twenty four teenagers including me. We were off at last head to Colorado Spring Colorado, little did I know, our bus was going to fall apart this very day.
I really enjoyed the accounting specialization because I feel that I’m very comfortable with numbers and I like solving analytical problems. I also like the social aspect that would come with accounting, like communicating with your colleagues at work about what you discovered or useful information. I think working with financial records of a firm or business would be interesting because you never know what to expect to happen and you have to be quick to adapt to certain situations.
College life is a journey taken by many high school graduate in effort to explore a higher form of education, and most importantly build a new life outside the boundaries of their families to sustain a long path of toward successful career and to some, building a new family of their own. In the United State we are blessed with an education system that is never available worldwide. Laws are placed to allow every students regardless of ethnicity, gender or class a chance to pursue education in among the most prestigious universities in the world such as Ivy League school as well as many large public universities with many programs. This vast number of education institutions available of every type of students create this big diversity leading the U.S. to be the frontrunner of education in the world.
Supporting the financial weight of children, work, living necessities, and school obligation can be a hard load to carry. The preparation for cumulative exams alone takes so much time. The addition of giving your children the love they need, the rest you need, and the ability to function properly at work can be physically, mentally, and emotionally taxing. Loss of sleep with the combination of training the mind in order to absorb the influx of information that’s going to happen during the upcoming lecture is tough. Going home fatigued and making dinner for your family and then hoping to recap the day and possibly studying and or doing some homework all before your body fails for the day. Then you find yourself waking up to an alarm clock indicating you have to go to work the next morning. In-home stressors add complexity to an already complex situation. Approval on campus and interactions with other students can often become negative. Judgment due to age is often looming in the air and often hinders the ability to learn, but don’t fret. There are positives to going back to
Throughout the years, I hardly believed in my capabilities in school and in achieving my ambitions. You see I am not one of those cool kids who blatantly don’t want to do anything, in fact, I was worse. When opportunities decides to knock on my doorstep, I simply decline hoping that luck doesn’t go my way. It is because I was afraid to change my status which I was already comfortable with my life. Now that I am more educated I’m seeing a different point of view, a different view of living, which is achieving great things in life and surpassing anything that may come my way. In my path towards a higher education I have passed obstacles such as injury, problems with self-esteem, and transportation.
The struggle of not being able to breathe properly, gasping for air while the fever inside was killing me little by little and my fragile self in the age of four did not know what was happening to me I was brain dead, more like clueless little kid almost having a near death experience of having a seizure that in the end it changed my life and the way I looked at it because God gave me another chance to actually prove to him that I can be someone in my life and grateful to be alive today knowing that I have family that actually loves me for who I am.
A college education has been linked to the American Dream. The American Dream consists of accomplishing dreams and success in the United States. Society has established an emphasis that a college degree will lead to economic and social happiness, but it is important to take a step back and realize that a college degree is not the only way to achieve success and accomplish the American Dream. This socially constructed norm has considered students as disappointments when they choose to not pursue or realized that a college path is not for them. Even though a college education is believed by all as an essential part to an individual’s success, it is not entirely the path to everyone’s success. There are going to be students who are not going to want or be able to pursue a college education, and for those, instead of labeling as automatic failures, there needs to be promoting of alternative routes. A college education is a privilege not a necessity, it will not determine if a person success or failure.
My first goal is to continue my education by earning a Master’s degree in Accounting right after completing my bachelor’s degree. The MSU’s Accounting program attracts me for both its reputation and its career opportunities available for international students. It is my responsibility as a future accountant to be really familiar and proficient at the tools accountants use regularly. Achieving my master’s degree will also help me achieving my second goal of becoming a CPA by meeting the requirement of curriculum. Thus, I am professionally and academically motivated to earn a Master’s degree of Accounting at the Broad Business College.
The reason I decided to pursue a career in accounting is because I have always been interested in the business world and accounting is considered a basic tool of business. I have worked for small and large business firms; also in private and public sectors which helped me develop a strong linking with the industry as a whole and solidified my interest in accounting.
My interest in Accounting and Finance stems from wanting to understand how governments and businesses make their vital decisions to be profitable. Studying this degree, will allow me to gain an understanding of financial accounting, management accounting and taxation providing me with skills to analyse data and develop my decision making. Additionally being able to incorporate different aspects of business alongside the core modules; will give me more knowledge of the world of accounting and finance.
Accountants are becoming a needed job in the business industry and play a very important role in the success of many businesses. This job usually requires at least a bachelor’s degree in accounting and sometimes even a CPA (Certified Public Accountant). There are many other things that are needed to be considered before choosing this career. The job environment, education, skills, and benefits are just some of the many things that need to be thought through before considering this career.
Every day, many people question my passion for pursuing accounting as a profession and the first answer I think of is that I am good with numbers. However, advancing in the field has made me realize that my passion is not only based on figures. Growing up as a kid, I was privileged to have a piggy account where I would save as little as fifty cents per week. Since my parents rewarded me in monetary value as a positive reinforcement in cases of good behaviour, I was motivated to maintain good manners so long as my savings increased. As time went by, I realized I had saved way “too much” money for a little child. The challenge came in the management of the funds because I was focused on spending more on pleasurable activities. However, the guidance of my parents enabled me to prioritize on the more important things and save more. I took interest in managing may own account as a child and even pursued accounting courses in high school. The interest grew deeper because I gained more insight on the facts about accounting and the career. Also, I believed that it is career that one would be self-employed thereby avoiding the dilemmas of lacking jobs after graduating. For instance, one would easily start their own business and manage their finances comfortably.
Accounting is a very important term to our modern society. It is the career for men and women who at the start have their eyes set on top positions in industry, management, government, and general business. Accounting is a basic need of every businessman, from the operator of a filling station to the government of the United States. It's so important to our society. None of the business organization can operate without is. They are there-somewhere-in every business. In small business, people use pen, ink and skill keep the records. In large business, modern accounting machines are used to operate. Men and women are directing these machines in the accounting process. Wise businessmen enter business must have some accounting knowledge.