College
College! Why is it such a big deal to go right in to collage! I understand,
however I just don't know what I want to do yet. I know I want to do
something that has to do with criminal justice. As in the FBI. I just think
that would be so cool. It would make me happy and I'll get paid O.K.
My plans were to graduate, then stay with my mom for a year and just work 2
jobs, maybe take a class at U.A.A. So, I can keep with the whole study thing.
Oh, and I would go into the Air Guard also. They really help with collage.
Then a friend and me would get an apartment and split the rent. I would then
go to U.A.A for 2 years and after that I would transfer to the University of
my Choice.
I got all of these ideas from my sister. I look up to my sister a lot. I
learn from her experiences. She never took her SAT's and she did really badly
in high school. But, when she went to U.A.A she got really good grades then
she transferred over to N.Y.U. It's the 3rd hardest college to get into for
her field! So, ya know if she can do it so can I.
My father on the other hand! He thinks I should go to Grays Harbor Community
College. And if I do, then I can live with him and he will pay for my BOOKS!
If you don't know, Grays Harbor is a really bad college, it is worse then
U.A.A. Even if I wanted to go, my mom wouldn't let me! I mean come on; he
will help me pay for my BOOKS that's a real help.
I remember one day I was in the truck with my dad and we were talking about
colleges and he said "you can't go to a good college like your sister, you
just cant. You're not like her. And, I'm sure as hell I'm not going to pay
that much!" I told him I don't expect him to pay for anything. My sister
went through college without her dad's help, so I can do it to. Every time I
try and talk to him about the university that I'm interested in or when I tell
him I want to be in the law or psychology field, he just changes the subject!
Hochschild concludes that the world must never forget the events of Leopold’s Congo. This event is evidence that it is the result of human greed that led to so much suffering, injustice, and corruption.
that they think I’d actually let them pay for my law school if I was going to go….”
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Surprisingly, within the first year of being in high school, I took and passed the High School Competency Test (HSCT). I had no idea what the acronym was, all I knew was that I needed to take that test an passed it before I can graduate high school and go to college. My counselor was surprised, but happy for me. From that day on, he spoke nothing to me, but college, and how bright I was. Eventually, I told him, I want to be a lawyer. He replied yes, you can be a lawyer, one day, but now what do you want to be. He started telling me about his daughter who works at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. Finally, I realized that he thinks I should become a nurse. I started to question myself, I asked, did he heard what I told him, that I want to be a lawyer or did he ganged up with my dad to convince me that I need to be a nurse. I went home confused, and I got into a deep conversation with my dad. Well, he managed to convince me that nursing was the shortest, and best option for someone like me. He reminded me that I needed to make the way for my little sister who is now an
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what I wanted to become. So after graduation I decided to explore my options at
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A college education. Many parents and even parents-to-be are bombarded with this goal, sometimes before their child is even born. How will they save? What is the best way to save? How much should they save? Magazines for new parents deal with this issue on a regular basis. Parents are warned in American Baby, "Start early...Eighteen years from now...a college education will cost close to $85,000 at a public university and just over $200,000 at a private institution." Parents are also advised to save around $115-284 a month from their child's birth. Another issue of American Baby suggests that parents "Start saving as soon as you can, and put money in regularly." These magazines work on the assumption that parents will be sending their children to college. It is just a given. Why is it just understood that we will be sending the next generation to college? What has changed so much since the days when only the wealthy (and male) went to college?
to quit school without a high school diploma. He has such little time left in high school and there are so
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I’d like to recount a story to you. At the start of my senior year, when college was the only thing on my mind, and the only plans for future I had, I went on a class trip to tour the top two Public Oregon Universities. I hadn’t yet made my decision on which university I wanted to attend and this trip was meant to help people like me make that decision. We saw University of Oregon (U of O) and Oregon State University (OSU), and talked with many students whom attended both as well as having toured the campuses. I loved OSU, everything about it, I decided I wanted to go there. I had never been more exited for college in my life. When I got home from the trip I told my dad about the entire trip and how exciting it was, then I told him that I
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A new experience, a change from the norm, looking out for myself, and living on my own: for me this is college. The transition of high school student to college seemed immensely overwhelming and even a bit scary. The shift opened a can of worms and created challenges, both good and bad, behind every corner. Due to the change of scene, I am now dealing with the everyday acceptance of the greater world around me: the town, the people and my new life.