My name is Maria Montez and I am currently enrolled as a freshman at Fayetteville Technical Community College in North Carolina. I am originally from Texas but due to my husband being in the military, we have been in North Carolina for about seven months and will be here for about four years. I am married and have three boys ages twelve, nine and three, who look up to me. I intend to complete the Practical Nursing program and become a Licensed Practical Nurse. I have worked tirelessly for many years to support my family and now I have the opportunity in life to go back to college and pursue my dream.
Read: Read this story of a college freshman—let’s call him Raul—who moves back in with his parents for the summer after attending his first year of college out of state. Even though he feels close to his parents and wants and needs their support, he is also used to having more autonomy than they are used to giving him. (Perhaps your students will be able to relate to the predicament.) That situation activates the autonomy-connectedness dialectical tension for Raul. Instruction: After reading the story again generate eight different approaches Raul might take to dealing with the tension that correspond to the eight strategies identified by researchers: 1) denial: Raul thinks that his current situation is not as bad as it seems, because his parents are being his parents.
I’m a father of two awesome sons name Cameron and Jonathon, and I have a beautiful step-daughter name Kristen. My wife is also going back to school to get her degree in education. I have been thinking a long time about going back to school and I felt that it was time to do it. I want to better my life for my kids and show them that an education is very important. I had a lot of dead end jobs that lead nowhere and felt that I should go back to school and get my degree.
Joel’s and Daniel’s main difference was that the rabbi’s used Joel as an example for the other boys on how to act during school. When Joel and Thacia (Joel’s sister) broke a rule and went to the mountain on a “vacation”, they met Daniel again, after five years, who tried to get Joel to join the group of men on the mountain to fight against the Romans. Instead of Joel joining the men on the mountain, Joel helped Daniel make a band of boy, who had high dreams of making an army. As Joel progressed through life we see what he is, and what he might be someday. Above all else the next “part” of Joel’s life is probably the most important.
I graduated high school twenty-five years ago. Since then, I have raised a family and bounced from job to job. A college education is important to me because I have finally matured enough to complete my education and fulfill my dream of becoming a college graduate. In order to succeed in college, it takes dedication, discipline, and structure. Throughout my lifetime, I have always struggled with these.
The GI Bill has provided the opportunity for many military families to be able to better their possibilities at gaining an education. The GI Bill has played a major role in the college system from its beginning stages. Many service men took advantage of the scholarship programs that were provided to them through the GI Bill and began enrolling in college. By the end of the original program in 1956 more than half of the 16 million veterans, had gone to college or had received some sort of job training. After World War I, Veterans returning to the United States would receive a little more than $60 in allowance a day and a train ticket to get back home.
Just think about all that hard work you have done throughout the last three years; taking test, completing projects, and preparing yourself for college. Many colleges require a list of all the classes you took your senior year, even the levels of those courses. By looking at this list they will determine what kind of students you are and if you decided to slack off. Senior year is just another year to strengthen your knowledge and learning skills, to prepare for all the challenges ahead. A successful senior year can lead you to a better path to a successful future.
Going back to college has been a challenge for me. Between keeping my house in order, making sure my husband and kids are loved, fed and bathed every day, making it to practices and games, teaching Sunday School and Rainbows, plus going to my on-campus classes, I find it hard to keep up with my studies sometimes. I graduated high school in 2001, just
Now for college classes, it is recommended that you study 3 hours for every one hour of credit that the classes is worth. Let that sink in...that is a lot of studying you have to do! So much in fact, when are you going to have time to party, and hang out with friends? Even your twelve hour a day sleep schedule will be upset! Besides remember how well you did on that ACT?
Every day there are new goals to achieve in my life; every time one of them is accomplished I draw a new one to work towards. One of the first personal goals I worked toward and eventually reached was attaining my BA in Civil Engineering. It took five years to achieve this important goal. Not only did it take hard work and patience but there were also obstacles I had to go through. Because I did not have enough money to pay the tuition, I had to get a job in a call center after school.