Capitan Mark Kelly Ever since I was a young girl I have always had great dreams and high expectations for myself. Anytime I was asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I would quickly reply” a lawyer” As the years went by I still had that goal in mind, but I began to realize that I was not exactly Ivy League material. Though I did work really hard in my classes, I was still at best average. During my junior year I took my SAT’s, and cried when I got my scores back. For many years I was scared to go to college because I thought I wasn’t college material.
Final exams are a time of stress for students to worry about if they can recall all the lessons that their professors have went over within that semester. Students who are scarcely passing any of their classes need their final exams to be passing grades, so they tend to study a little harder. Finals also allow students to see how all the lessons they have learned connect through small facts. Identifying and understanding thoroughly everything the professor particularly emphasizes in class can be a hard and tough experience when preparing to study for finals. In Joy Alonso’s “Two Cheers for Examination “she uses examinations to examine the purposes and useless of exams in two and four year colleges to appear to students and teachers.
She thinks that if she would want to change something about her careers and choices it would be that she would try more things out rather than just sticking with the same job for her entire life. My mother has been working at Social Security since she was eighteen years old, she currently is fifty-one years old. She spends her time taking claims from clients applying for Social Security. It is a lot of paper work and interviewing, but you are now required to have a college degree to be in the position that she is in. She has been awarded multiple times for her excellent work and excels still past the graduates that are coming into the position as of lately.
To whom it may concern: During the beginning of the second semester of my freshman year at the University of Richmond, I received notification that I was on academic probation. As a freshman, I attempted to focus on a degree in Pre-Med and enrolled in courses such as calculus and biology instead of the freshman core curriculum. Academically, I was not prepared for the challenges of those courses. I was not surprised, but very disappointed when I received notification of my academic status. I met with the Dean and discussed the situation with him as well.
While her elementary and middle school consisted mainly of blacks and Hispanics, Pennington, her high school consisted of mostly white, rich, preppy Americans. She experienced racism for the first time in her life, but instead of allowing this to hurt her, she ended up developing a stronger and more confident personality. She gained more leadership skills and became extremely involved with mentoring programs at her school. Her high school years also taught her to embrace and appreciate her culture even more because she was the first and only Vietnamese student. Every time she was faced with hardship, she remembered the struggles that her parents faced and it gave her strength to continue on her journey.
Cindy Belony Reflection on Diversity Devry University SOCS 350N0 August 12, 2012 There were several times in my youth, where I felt excluded or invisible from other people. The time I remember most was in my high school year trying to fit in with the other students. I was just trying to find my own identity and relate to others. In my first and second year of high school, I was in an Esol program, even though I was born here in America. I had a good time in the Esol program.
When I took my placement test I was shocked at the result that I had master them, I was in fear that I didn’t do well, I knew that I had forgotten a lot of information and that lot stayed in my head. I had to take several remedial courses, considering my education background. I attended southwest community college and master a certificate in computer software specialist in the year of 2005-2007, and I felted very proud of myself, so I decided to take it a step further and go for an associated degree in business so that why I am here a Ashford University. I get a lot of guidance from my children, especially my daughter she is in college and she encourage me a lot, at times when I want to give up she keeps me going saying little phrases like( mom you can do it, you are never to old) the love I have for that child. I challenge with training myself to be more tactful in completing my assignment on time and studying to make good grades on quizzes and test, these were my main challenge in trying to going readjust to returning back to
I’ve had an experience in which the minutes I took weren’t written effectively, therefore everyone ended up going in different directions & then had to meet again for the same original purpose. Whereas if the meeting minutes are written well, everyone gets the same notes and are all on the same page. Everything that I’ve learned in school and even on my job has helped me in my adult life to be able to write resumes, cover letters, applications, etc. Even in my personal life as a mom, everyday my son comes to me for pen and paper. Because He’s only 23 months, He scribbles all over the paper but I still feel that it’s my obligation as a parent to take his hand and guide him.
I played sports and received letters from other colleges. So I felt good about that until me and my mother had out disagreements on where I wanted to go to school at. So I listen and instead stayed home to go a local technical institute. So once I got going with school things were going good until my job played a major role into school and also my mother was getting ill. So
This gave me the opportunity to learn the language and get my diploma, but I was away from my country, my family and friends. Then, when I was in America; I met the love of my life, got married and started a family. This changed the course of my life and the path I thought my life was going to take. Eventually, I began working on a second bachelor taking classes at college here in America. During my first year at the college I got pregnant.