I have always been independent, but I fully seeked independence when I was 16 years old. This was the year of 2016, and this was the year that my life changed; I was forced to grow up and learn how to be more independent. The first step to my seeking of independence was turning 16 years old and getting my driver’s license. This meant I was finally able to go out on my own and not rely on others to take me places anymore. In the year of 2016, I also began taking classes at Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute to earn college credits.…
Brown is a place where students have the freedom to grow, learn about themselves, and enjoy life. In all my years of school there was always someone looking over my shoulder, interjecting their opinions, or spoonfeeding me the answers. I want my college education to be my own. Taking ownership of my education is a large responsibility, but I am mature enough to handle the challenge. The collaborative atmosphere of Brown, where students work with, instead of against, one another, will give me the guidance and support I need to figure out the best educational path for myself.…
Being the first in the family to take interest in college is already enough for everyone to push me in the direction to achieving it. I do not want to disappoint them or myself, I want to be on the graduation stage with my hand grasping that master degree. About me, others describe me as opinioned, stubborn and independent. Although I do not want to admit it, these traits all apply to me. Opinioned doesn’t sound as an appealing word to me I should say I like for people to understand my views completely also I don’t mind if someone does not agree with me, it just adds more depth to the discussion.…
College for me was an unreachable goal that I had set my eyes on upon graduating from high school. Since I could remember I had was diagnosed with a learning disabilities. With theses disabilities colleges would be a hard road; nevertheless, I want to attend school. Starting in community college I worked long hard hours trying to grasps the high speed learning environment. Many times in college with disabilities, i would ask myself if it even worth it, many they were right to give up this goal.…
“I know applying to colleges is the last thing you want to do right now, but you might change your mind,” a trusted friend told me. It was December of my senior year of high school, and college application deadlines were approaching quickly. I was recovering from a major illness at the time, and wasn’t ready to think about college. My plan was to spend a year living at home and working before I pursued higher education. In the following months, my recovery progressed rapidly.…
My past laid out upon a table. My GPA, my resume, my test scores. An unfamiliar man whom I met for the first time was frowning, turning around in his creaky red chair, while hurriedly trying to contextualize my life with just a few pieces of paper. For 15 minutes, he sat there, unhappy, tapping his foot, analyzing what I’ve “done” with my life. He took a sip of water and suggested that I go to community college.…
How My Community College has Changed My Life Growing up everyone emphasized how important it was and still is to further education after high school. I always kept this in the back of my mind, but never knew how I would be able to afford college. Researching different schools I realized tuition would cost more than I had saved up. I’ve been saving for higher education for quite some time actually.…
Looking at the cons I was going to be a little far away from my family and I didn’t like that much. My family and I are really attached that I wouldn’t be able to handle it. They have been my guidance and support through my education that I will miss not having them with me. Before anything I had experienced once staying at my grandmother’s house in Bakersfield, California for a month and it was difficult not to be with my family. That at that time I promised I will never study away from home.…
Why Colorado Christian University? What has brought me to Colorado Christian University? Growing up in a wonderful christian family is something for which I am eternally grateful. Dad was a Baptist pastor with a large family. Most of us kids had the privilege to attend Community Christian School.…
In my education, I want neither too rigid of a core curriculum nor to loose of one. Yale has the perfect middle where there is a third part of the curriculum that is my choice, allowing me to study my other interests outside the range of my major. Also, after visiting Yale, I found the welcoming environment for which I was looking, especially with residential colleges. Having my residential college chosen for me is appealing as well as the great things in each of the colleges like the Buttery and movie theaters that I heard…
It's finally coming to an end. Both high school and my first pregnancy. What are my plans? Let me break it down. I start college in the fall.…
During when I was in middle school I had to make many choices on what I was doing. Some choices that I’ve made during my middle school days were not good. One day my friends and I had agreed on leaving school and go to a friend’s house and just chill there playing games and having fun. But as we were about to leave I had a weird feeling that something was going go wrong, so I choose to stay at school.…
As a running start student I could talk about how my experience at community college helped prepare me to transfer to a four year university, but the lessons I learned there were primarily limited to academics. Sure, I learned how to be successful in a college class room, that online classes don’t fit my learning style, and going to Hong Kong for two weeks in the middle of the quarter will significantly lower a GPA. (I eventually retook the classes from that quarter.)…
When I had my first meeting about my senior year schedule and my counselor told me I could graduate early, I immediately said yes. I didn’t think about all that would go along with it and at the time I had no idea so in an attempt to convince me not to graduate early, my counselor told me to think about it and really weigh out my options. I thought about it a lot and didn’t see a single reason against it. 2 weeks later, after speaking to my parents I went right back to him and told him I am graduating early. He then asked me what's my plan.…
I had to decide if I wanted to stay here in Harrisonburg and play with a volleyball travel team that had all my friends from school on it or if I wanted to travel to Roanoke 3 times a week to play with a very competitive travel team all full of girls I had never met before. I didn’t know what to do because there was so much pressure from the coaches on the TA staff that I needed to stay in Harrisonburg and play with the TA team so that I could grow closer to them. I wanted to be with my friends, but on the other hand I wanted to go to Roanoke and play with a team that I knew would make me a better player and expose me to college coaches. I was pretty torn between the two and had a hard time deciding. In that moment I thought back to the conversation my father and I had and there was no doubt in my mind what I was going to do.…