Connie McBride AC0707685 Writing Assessment EN110 Achieving Academic Excellence “Why College is Important to Me” Working menial jobs to get through high school really didn’t give me the push to jump right into college. I tried a few classes here and there and it was something that seemed to be a temporary thing to occupy time. I was young and didn’t realize what college was going to mean to my adulthood challenges. After finally accepting a full time job that could lead to a career for some time it became clear that college would have been a good choice for me to have been successful. I quickly began to attend college classes through my employer to make gains in my career and try to possibly secure my future.
In society many would think that teaching financial literacy in high school is not a good idea because the students already have many things to worry about. They think that teaching financial literacy would just add on to the load. They also assume that financial literacy skills are just common sense. Whereas some people also believe that teaching financial literacy is an excellent idea because it will help the students manage their future finances well. It will help them understand the basics of financial planning as it is not common sense.
I believe the graduate program at George Mason University is the best fit for me since it will help me continue the journey toward my ultimate career goal, a journey that began early in my life. Since the first time I laid eyes on financial charts as a young girl, I have been fascinated by finance related topics. This curiosity led me to focus my studies at the University of Virginia on commerce with an emphasis on finance and information technology. During that time, to gain practical experience and insights, I held several internships that covered every part of the business, from finance and accounting to data management. Upon graduation I accepted a full-time position at SAIC, where I spent the first three years in FP&A managing the finances for two independent operations with combined annual revenue of nearly $160M, over 100
“By tying grades to money, we give students incentives not to take risks” (Vogel, 392) that stop them from choosing challenging courses in college. Students find easier courses through word of mouth or websites that previous students rate their professor in. I always ask people who previously took the course I am interested in whether or not I have a chance of passing the course with a C or higher. Students are afraid of putting their grade point average at risk because the grade point average is a component of the application process that helps colleges decide who to accept. .
Being a journalist my whole life, I’ve never thought that one day I’ve got a feeling I’m stuck in my career and would want to change it completely. Now going from writing to statistics, I’m trying to develop the analytical and management skills, necessary to achieve my ultimate career goal of money management. Not having any statistic lessons in the past, I spend a lot of time, trying to overview the accounting principles to build my quantitative skills now. Instead of watching TV or reading bestsellers, I study how to view numerical data and interpret it appropriately. And this is my strong issue: future leader has to develop familiarity with financial management principles, which are at the core of any successful business.
I have become more studious and have placed a larger importance on my grades and how they impact my future. With the help from my guidance counselor thru the extra time my teachers take to help me when I’m struggling. I have realized my education is everything, being able to know things, will open my future. Bishop Noll is preparing me for college, to have a better future, and have a great career, to survive with using the knowledge obtained and the faith to carry on during the struggles in life. Graduating from Bishop Noll in 2017 is a goal I have to work for.
Listening to my inner coach has made me restore faith in my abilities, is supportive, and leaves a feel-good effect. Session 7 saw us identify areas of our own lives that may be causing stress, which for me is finding a balance between work and university. The belief behind this stress is that I must do well at uni, and give it priority to everything else, but I must also earn some money to survive, so as not to feel as though my partner is ‘carrying’ me. When I thought about the underlying issues of the stress, I realised that it was mainly due to the fact that my time management was lacking, so the plan that I developed to reduce this stress in my life was to prioritise my time better. This plan included: * Telling work that I could only do 2 days a week, being Mondays and Fridays * Getting a calendar to work out when all university assessments were due, so that I always have it out in front of me * Making a timetable of when I’m at school, work and fit home study time into the
It is hard to focus and my study methods are vastly differed from those of an average college student. I am an aspiring student but struggles with focusing in on main projects as I want to ramble in a different direction. In order to get past this I must get in to a routine that requires a type of consistency in my studies. In the same way, Malcolm X had to learn to enhance his education he had to study consistently all day and every free moment in his day. I have to do the same in order to become a successful student.
He graduated from Yale with a degree in applied mathematics and has a passion for economics. Although Leonhardt is no doubt a highly intellectual individual, he may have some constraints in his point of view. Leonhardt may only see the economic numbers behind this whole issue and fail to see the actual, physical struggle for each individual. Leonhardt obviously cares about the well-being of the economy, which is probably why he wrote the article. In another point of view by Debra Pressey in “Points for Trying” found in the Gazette, she shows more compassion for smokers and the obese.
Their perspective on how the underachieved educational system is, alongside my encounters with complex of schooling. In high school, we are given many standards every day that we must meet in order to be considered successful, but the reality is; these standards are fruitless in expectation for colleges and universities. In high school I did not get the English composition skills, to prepare me for my college courses. They are right about their belief that the professors in the universities are very inspired in some ways to give their standards to the students in depth knowledge to set higher standards, however, it is not good to know that some high school students still enter Americas elite schools through remedial process, because it might agitate the worldwide standards set by the school