I sat in my fluffy white chair as I edited a paper for my US history class last semester. As i did this I thought about how I'd much rather be on pinterest gathering inspiration for fashion, art, and interior design. It was in this moment I took a nervous leap that had been shadowing me the entire semester : I undeclared myself. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy history,. I was intrigued by my history courses, but as the semester went by I feared that while i love history, I would not love being a historian. But as I was moving away from history I tried to grasp on. If I wasn't a history major what could I be? I had my whole life planned out and not being a history major was not part of this plan. However in the back of mind I did
"Where do I belong?" aimlessly day dreaming about my future I disregarded my U.S history teacher as she began taking attendance.
My first college English class was ENC 1101 at the State College of Florida. In this course, I learned a vast amount of information about writing, reading, and grammar. When I first walked into ENC 1101 in August, I expected the class to be like any other English class in High School; with rushed busy work and a lot of useless tests and quizzes. However, throughout each week of the semester, Professor Knutsen’s class made me beg to differ. This class was not like any other high school English class. In this class I actually learned important information and did not do work just to complete it. This class had a few assignments here and there, enough to maintain, in order to learn proper information. I learned a lot in this class because I was not rushed to
Intro Deciding what you want to study during your college career can be a difficult and tedious task. This is due to fact that many young adults coming out of high school are unsure of what they want to do or what path to take career wise. It is also tedious because this requires that these individuals have to constantly try and explore new avenues so that they can find their passion in life. The path I chose to take when coming out of high school was entering the business school at Howard University.
Every person has an American Dream they want to pursue, achieve and live. Many people write down goals for themselves in order to get to their dream. Those never ending goals can range from academic to personal. As of today, I am living my dream. My American Dream is to become a nurse, travel to many places, have a family, and get more involved with God.
I consider myself to be a hard worker when I study and work, who honestly loves school. My favorite classes of 8th grade are honors geometry AB, Investigation and Science & IED. I love these classes because when I solve problems experiment it feels like it's a big puzzle that is in need to be put together and I'm a person who likes to figure things out. I believe that my interactions in these classes are to be a cooperative learner and I participate in the class or group discussions. A description of myself when I work is that I am a very fast learner, so when it comes to doing independent project or tests, I finish very fast so I have a really large amount of time to check over and fix simple mistakes. Although, when I am working with my peer
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Learning something enough to know that I do not want to do that for a living, has been my pitfall. Never being able to conceptualize a potential career left me with little enthusiasm for a classic education.
In this research, liberal arts students tend to report more regret of choosing their current major when compared to students from other majors. In addition, liberal art students ended up working in fields not closely related to art or social science. Overall, third of graduate whished that they have ventured into a different major. This shows that approximately only two third of students enter fields that they will not regret down the
I’d always thought about making my passion for art into a career but it wasn’t until I was older that I kept hearing how that wouldn’t be beneficial which discouraged me but I was lucky enough to have encouraging art teachers who made me aware of the different fields that could be pursued with an arts degree. Once I decided I wanted to pursue an art degree, I began reflecting on how I’d want to continue forward and I thought of my Art History class.
I’ve just entered my senior year of high school. I know that this is a very important year. I have a lot of decisions to make and not much time to make them. These decisions will either make or break my life, and I want to make sure that I make them to the best of my ability because there is no turning back. I need to make sure I definitely want to attend college. The decision is totally up to me. There are many positives and negatives of attending college. Go over them, and then decide. I know myself better then anyone else, and I won’t let anyone else tell me what to do. I will make sure if I am going to attend college that I have something in mind that I will want to do, to succeed in. Choosing a major can be a very stressful situation so why not sit down and take some time to do it? Be creative, don’t rush, give yourself plenty of time and really think about what interests you in life. My major is something that I will want to enjoy, something that I will be doing for the rest of my life. Why would I want to be miserable at something I do in life? In two short essays: “College? What’s in It for me?” by Steven M. Richardson, and “What It Means to Be Creative”, by S.I. Hayakawa, I can relate to my major very well. Athletic Training is something that takes skill, as well as being creative in your own way. No two Athletic Trainers are the same. The more creative I am at whatever I do, the better off I will be. I hold the keys to all the doors that can ...
All my life ,I’ve always wanted to be someone in life who can actually make a difference to this world in a positive way. Ever since I was a little girl I pushed myself to always best I can be just . I lived in a town outside Los Angeles, California , it was called Van Nuys,California.The elementary school (Kittridge Elementary) I had went to was in a low income area, mainly spanish community had lived in the area I was living in at the time .I had a lot of friends (mainly mexicans) I focused a lot on being on time for school , staying on task in class, and finishing my homework. At such a young age I had felt such ambition and was doing very good for myself. At the age of 10 was when reality start to really hit me , even though I was very young I started to see things differently.
I have never been quite sure what I wanted to do as an adult. I began this journey with obtaining an A.A. in Criminal Justice. This was an area that I very much enjoyed however, there were limited opportunities in my area to use that degree. I went on to decide to obtain my bachelor’s degree and determined that I would get this in Psychology with a minor in Sociology. I learned during this process that I very much liked these subjects and was very happy with my choice.
My freshman and sophomore schedules were filled with electives chosen in order to determine my interests. European history, music history, and business principles, though three very interesting classes, successfully ruled out the arts, classics, and business school. I thoroughly enjoyed the sciences of biology and chemistry, but it never occurred to me that I would be able to build a successful future off of science alone.
For most people choosing a major is a daunting experience, some may have pre determined notions of what they want to do while other look for something to sustain their future. However, for me it has always been a dream to achieve success through passion. For most of my life math has been my favorite subject, the logic and problem solving aspects of mathematics was something I enjoyed. However, although math was dear to me it was not my calling. Some may have always known what will further their academic career, but I found my calling at the start of my sophomore year of college.
I loved it in school. I would always read history books for fun. I memorized state capitals for fun. I always was a student that would get As in history. I loved doing assignments for history. To me, they were not assignments but where opportunities. They were something I loved doing as I loved both the fun of doing it and the learning experience. History was one thing that helped me understand the world. I was a good student and was able to do many subjects. I was a good English student and that helped me to write history papers. My words were very eloquent but succinct. I was able to get the point across. Schools seemed easy to me as long as I did the work but, history was the subject where I was able to pay attention to. I never skipped a history class and I always something to contribute to the class. I had felt however lost when I picked Computer Science as my major. The classes were too difficult for me and I had to change my major to History. I learned to pick what major interests you. I have had a much easier time with my classes. The classes I am in seem to make the career that I am going to pick has to interest me. I need something that will make me happy. If I were to pick something I have to be happy to enter the job and happy when I leave. My college experience has also told me that it is better to happy than to be miserable. Many people had told me that you cannot find a job with a history degree but I would rather study history because I have a legitimate interest in