This scholarship would greatly help my family and I. It would help me greatly because I am paying for my schooling by myself, and it would help cut down all my other costs for my family. I pay for my schooling out, but my parents pay for just about everything else. I try to make straight A’s in school, work as much as I can, and help out my neighbor as much as I can. It would help cut costs for both of us. I pay for my college education, while my parents pay for almost everything else in my life. I paid around $5000 for my college tuition this year, plus about $1000 in books and supplies for my classes. College isn’t cheap, but I made it work. I make it work with the help of my parents, who pay for my insurance, cell phone bill, and give …show more content…
I want to do the best that I possibly can with myself, which means pushing myself to do my very best in school. I don’t want anything lower than an A in any of my classes. So far, I haven’t gotten anything lower than an A in any of my classes. I push myself to study until I know all the material, and be able to comprehend it. I plan on continuing to work hard as I continue to advance in my education. I plan on furthering my education to become a Nurse Practitioner one day. For now I am going to Belmont College for Licensed Practical Nursing to Registered Nursing program. I am a member of the college’s Phi Theta Kappa honors society. I also have been on the Dean’s list every semester, and I am very proud to say that because I work hard to keep myself there. I go to class 4 days per week, and I work at least 2 days per week. I usually work Fridays and Saturdays. I have saved a lot of my paychecks so that I pay a lot of my schooling off. During all of my breaks from college, I worked at Dunning Motor Sales for my dad to help out around the body shop. Usually during my breaks I work over 40 per week between both jobs, but I do this so I can pay for my schooling. I push myself to work this much not only because i need to to try to help cover some of the costs for schooling, but because it builds a good work ethic. I try to work hard at everything that I do, and I make sure that it’s done correctly. In addition to both school and work, I try my hardest to
Summary: In the essay, “Part-time Employment Undermines a Student’s Commitment to School” by Laurence Steinberg, it explains how studies show that teenagers that work while attending school are more likely to loose their commitment to school. Steinberg tells the effects on students when they work more than twenty hours a week. His theory was that students are more susceptible to losing their interest in school, while working. They may have to work in the evening time, which can interfere with homework, sleep and diet. Steinberg also elaborated on how these students that work receive money that can make school seem less desirable. Also because they do receive money, they can use their extra money to become associated with drugs and alcohol.
Over all, I believe I embody the type of person this foundation is trying to help through this scholarship. This scholarship would mean the world to me and my family, it would help me achieve all my goals and dreams. I am confident that I am a Strong Candidate for the HSF Scholarship, and I believe I am very well rounded in all aspects of the requirements. Thank you for conserving my
I have been saving my 4-H money for college this whole time. This scholarship will help with books and other experiences I can put towards, as stated before my family has a low income and is unable to assist me. I wasn't expecting anything. I am not Entitled to anything my parents have worked for, only to what I
If you are not paying completely for your college tuition, then your parents are helping and or you took out loans and eventually have to pay them back. Seeing how most college freshman are 18 or even 17, means you do not have much money saved if any at all and your parents are stuck paying for everything you need, going to college for more than four years or even at is going to cost you, or should I say your parents. Undergraduate loan borrowing crossed the $100 billion edge in 2010 and aggregate loans surpassed $1 trillion U.S. dollars a year ago. “This (student loans) increase has put a disproportionate burden on students and their families—hence loans. The median household income for a family of four is about 24,300 in 1980, 41,400 in 1990 and 54,200 in 2000. In addition to the debt that students take on there are few statistics on how much parents pay and how they pay it” (Williams 2006). It's not advanced science. It's the economy, Undergraduates and laborers looking for more schooling are obtaining lots of cash through government and private advance projects to help take care of the continued raising expense of school and preparing for careers. Much of the time, parents in charge of the undergraduate loans are in or are close to
For most families with teenagers applying for colleges there is one main question―what will it cost us? According to The College Board, the average cost of tuition and fees for the 2013–2014 school year was $30,094 at private colleges, $8,893 for state residents at public colleges, and $22,203 for out-of-state residents attending public universities. Although these numbers are averages, the actual costs of colleges are widely varied. A sad truth about this is that many students and their families don’t even know where all their money is going. Normally the money is paying for tuition; fees; housing and meals; books and school supplies; and personal and transportation expenses. As showed in the average cost of college, usually a school has a lower tuition for in-state residents and a vastly higher tuition for ou...
In a world where most college freshmen do not graduate or dropout, i feel like it would mean to much more to me to graduate and be able to say I got my degree. studies have said that half of freshman will not complete there degree, another study said that 25% of freshmen will change their major before they finish their sophomore year. If i was given this scholarship money it would put me in a place where hopefully I won't become just another statistic. Another reason a college degree is important for me to achieve is so that i will be respected in my work industry of choice. When you are in a place of work, there is always someone who everyone looks up to because they know the most about certain things, but more often than not that person has the highest degree in his or her field. If I was awarded this scholarship i would be more capable of being that person because i would not have to worry about leaving school to figure out how I will pay off my
Once becoming an RN I plan on getting my BSN and am contemplating getting my master’s degree as well and becoming a nurse practitioner. There are many options in the nursing field so I can change jobs within the field if I desire.
But many low-income students not only have a full-time course schedule, they also have jobs where they work more than 30 hours per week. Approximately one-quarter of college students’ work while attending school and have both a full course-load and a full-time job (Carnevale, Smith, & Melton, 2015). Working helps students with the living costs as well as tuition and can help students learn skill sets that many employers prefer. However, there are problems with having full-time work while going to college.
Working students not only can get material rewards, but also can obtain spiritual rewards. According to American Time Use Survey, full-time college students mostly spent 5.8 hours per day for education activities and related activities. There is still much time for students. They should do something to fill their free time to be meaningful. Students take 10 to 15 hours to work per week, they also study in college and earn degrees, and they are same with other students.
Those who take on student debt when enrolling into college, result in needing to find a job immediately after school in hopes of paying their debt off soon. Reporter of Upromise, Diane M. Whitmore, published the article “Learning and Earning: Working in College”, which offers college students statistics of their working experience due to tuition. She states that “after four years, college students who had worked 20 hours per week at an off-campus job were 8.7 percentage points less likely to have graduated than non-workers.” Students who cannot afford to have a large amount of debt, work and therefore have less time for their studies.
As such, I want students to realize the level of knowledge and competence they have when they are reviewing the patient database. I appraise the enthusiasm of these nursing students as they strive for professional competence. It is my goal to help them synthesize theoretical knowledge and apply it in the clinical setting. My ambition is to empower novice-nursing students to apply textbook skills to real patients. What motivates me to teach, and to teach well, is the desired output, “A competent nurse”. Nursing has opened many doors for me in all three domains: practice, research, and education. As I plan a career in nursing scholarship, I acknowledge that I have much to learn about teaching. Wherever this path leads me, my goal is to write
students in his research. Which is followed by Mounsey,Vandehey,and Diekhoff (2013), when they found that there is no major differentiation between working and non-working students, in grade point average(Mounsey,Vandehey,and Diekhoff 2013, pg. 12). Granted with 74.5% of students working while attending school (pg. 3). Which nearly half,48.9%, of these students found it hard to meet deadlines(Schwarts, McGuire, & Satterstrom ,2011, pg. 4). That seems to be around a consensus as the American Council on Education. (2006) found that 78% of students work (pg. 6). While stating, of that 83.5% where working part time, 25 hours or less(pg. 6). As I was preparing to leave the army one of my major concerns was if working would automatically put me at a disadvantage in school. All the reading on this topic shows that even in the early 2000's, well over half of all students have some type of job. Furthering this, since the early 2000's is Orszag, J, Orstag, & Whitmore(2001) stating that, 16 to 24 year old's have shown a rise in working by 8% going from 49% to 57% (para. 1). Students then on average worked 25 hours a week, with students at a 4 year college working less hours on average(para. 2). In the research, it was found that students who worked 10 or fewer hours a week, tended to have higher GPA's than their peers (para. 5). Which that is be the idea behind the golden 10-15 hours; that is enough to make students prioritize their lives while giving them a vast majority of their time still free. However, Fletcher (2011) found that 20% of students where working full time, 30+ hours a week, and that they were 10% less likely to receive their degrees (para. 2). Even more, she concludes in the same way as previous sources; that worki...
My entire life, I have strived to do well in everything I do. I have never wanted to settle for second best in the activities that I am interested in. Once I have a goal in my mind, I work until it is complete. I work to overcome the obstacles ahead of me. In school, I work towards perfect marks on everything from homework to tests.
When is comes to money, saving for long terms goals is harder than acceptings loans when you need the money. However, is sure beats having to pay back loans years down the road. If one were to work throughout high school and save $6 per hour, he could have a savings of up to $24,960 by the time he finishes high school (Steinberg 1). This is an acceptable solution because it does not affect the student’s academic performance adversely. In fact, “students who were employed actually had a slightly higher average GPA (2.72) than those who weren’t working (2.69) (Steinberg 1).
As a kid growing up, I would watch movies about how parents would always say they have to save up money for their kids’ college education. I never thought about it much because I was still a kid myself, but now as a freshman in college, I understand why those parents had to start saving up money. College is not cheap at all. Depending on your major, you need a certain amount of years to graduate and get your degree. Some people are lucky to have financial aid they do not have to pay back, but what about those who have to pay tuition out of their own pocket?