Growing up we are always encouraged to go and pursue our dreams, but what if we didn't know what dream we wanted to pursue? Going into my first semester of community college, I didn’t have a clue on what I wanted to study. I had an interest in computers, so I registered for an introductory course in computer science. I don’t know if it was the professor or the general atmosphere of the class, but I was immediately hooked. I found myself wanting to learn more about the subject. I’ve read the recommended books, watched videos, and had discussions with my professor about what I learned in class. I couldn’t get enough. During my second computer science course, I had a task to create a game of my choice. In addition, the project didn’t have
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
As a senior I am obviously aware that my journey through school is coming to an end. At this point in my life, I have a slight idea about what I want to do in the future; however, I still don’t know if that’s where I want to go and I won’t ever know until I learn more about it. Some people may see my lack of permanent direction as an indication of someone who is lost. Nonetheless, I see this as an exhilarating experience where I am constantly discovering new things about myself. When this topic came
I currently attend Tennessee State University as a freshman. I plan on majoring in Dental Hygiene. I am the first to graduate and attend college in my family so of course everybody has high expectations from me. My mom and dad sacrificed a lot for me to attend school and get a good education and they taught me that without education you really can’t do much with your life. I want to have a good career and a good degree so I can be successful in life. I want to make my parents happy and very proud of the young lady they have raised. My father’s dream has always been for me to major in Dental Hygiene because of how successful I can be. And my dream has always been to make my dad (my inspiration and my role model) happy. When I started off trying to decide my major I had a very hard time because I honestly didn’t know what I wanted to do. I didn’t want to choose a major that I couldn’t really do much with or find a good job with. I asked my dad for help and he told me that this major would fit me perfectly and we looked up more information about it and we looked up the salary for it too and that’s when I knew I had found my major.
I have always had a strong belief that I could pass college like I did in high school. Always relying on those quick study sessions before a test or having the teacher going over the material right before a test. But boy was I wrong. In my first test I learned the hard way that studying is essential in college.
I concluded my 8th grade year with 9 a's and 5 b's, contrarily my 9th grade report card included 5 f's and 3 d's. "Your mistakes do not define who you are, you are your possibilities." - Oprah Winfrey. This quote reflects my high school journey because though I've made innumerable mistakes throughout high school thus far, and continue to make mistakes by not prioritizing my education, I refuse to give up and I will not let my mistakes make me.
Another semester has come and gone and I am a few steps closer to the goal I set for myself back in the spring of 2012. A degree! In a few scant months I will be at the halfway point earning my Associate of Arts degree and a couple years from now, hopefully, I will be stepping onto the stage up in Flagstaff and accepting my Bachelor’s degree.
Going back to school at 30 is not the same as going back to school at 20, especially when you’re a single parent with an established career. Returning to school never left my mind throughout the years, I received my associates seven years ago and between then and now a lot had changed. So many questions I asked myself; do I have the time, who can help watch my daughter, can I juggle another load, etc. I answered every one of my questions; unfortunately I gave myself excuses instead. The decision going back to school was overwhelming because it was taking up another full time job; making it a priority and possibly putting in overtime to study and do homework.
College is a time for students to be introspective, allowing for self-discovery and personal growth. The liberal arts core is essential for offering classroom experiences to broaden student knowledge as well as to catalyze this process of personal development within higher education. No matter what major or career path a student intends on studying and pursuing, the liberal arts core is always beneficial. For my major specifically, talking with patients is essential. Speech pathology is a career and major that requires interaction with clients and their family members. Practicing communication is ultimately the main method of therapy, yet communication is impossible without having something to talk about. The liberal arts core educates future
Writing for me has always been a love and hate relationship since I could remember. Depending on the subject matter that I was writing about I would enjoy it because it suited my style or I loathed it because that specific style was uninteresting and boring to me. Learning certain writing formats were absolutely the worst part about writing when I first started learning in high school. As time pushed on and I grew older I began to develop an appreciation for writing that I did not have before; which is what led me to taking Writing 101 as my first full-fledged college course. I began this course with minimal writing experience because of what I failed to retain before, but now I am a stronger writer than I could have imagined with new skill sets that enhance my professional portfolio.
I eventually found out what exactly I wanted to do by looking back in hindsight. When I was younger, everyone liked telling me “he’s a smart kid” although that was an immense stroke to my ego I never really paid attention to it. It was just one of those things that were ‘there’ an unmovable and unyielding fact of my life. I never really realized my great potential back then. I had stopped all of my usual habits reading, writing creatively, and trying my math problems instead of looking at the answers in the back of the textbook. By tenth grade year id realized that I had dropped something along the way, I’d
On the first day of college; my teachers said to me; Study hard and you 'll get a degree. The Course 's Enduring Understanding (EU) is ideas, habits, and general comprehension of what students should know or will soon find out. Over the course of my first semester I learned ideas such as studying, sceduding, and trying to fit all that into one week and 5 classes. I also learned habits such as reading, thinking, listening, presenting. We used all of those skills in the course of the whole semester and it kind of got me read for what the other courses where going to bring.
At the start of this class, I made a goal to develop my writing skills to better prepare me for other courses for my degree. I knew English 106 would be different compared to any other English or college courses that I have taken. I knew English 106 environment will let me grow in diverse writing dimensions. My long serving years of experience in the military has exposed me to many cultures around the globe. In just seven weeks of the course, I have seen some improvement in my writing. This course has afforded me with several techniques that have made writing not only a little bit easier but also more in-depth resulting in a higher level of academic writing versus my normal military style writing. Now I understand the writing process and
I made the choice to attend college and make an impact in my life and the lives of others. After I graduated high school I had no intentions of pursuing a college degree, considering my parents never attended college and I didn’t find it essential that I should leave the ranch in the pursuit of a higher education. I honestly didn’t have a whole lot of confidence in myself, never thought I could begin to attempt work, school and paying off my students loans. Nevertheless, I was presented the opportunity to Livestock Judge on a scholarship that could cover nearly half of my tuition at NJC.
I truly do wish I could say that I was one of the few individuals lucky enough to know at a young age what they wanted to be when they grew up, but realistically; I was not. Fortunately, however, I did eventually realize what I wanted to be during my sophomore year of high school, in a "flash" so to speak. To explain, I had just moved to Florida late during my freshman year, and while it may not seem extraordinary for a high school student to transfer schools, I believe that this transition is what caused me to discover my true passion; chemistry. While my old school in Virginia had a fairly strict order of classes that I would have been required to take, my new school in Florida allowed me to choose the courses I found fitting.
Once a year ago, I applied for my first job at South Texas College. I wanted to help