My Aspiration in Life Essay

My parents did not have the opportunity to finish high school and gain a college education. However, they have always instilled the value of education in me. Because they do not have a formal education, both work tedious jobs. I do not want to endure the same hardships as them, thus I want to pursue a college degree. Because of my mom’s strong work ethic, I came to the conclusion that the key to getting into college was hard work, and disregarding the negative stereotypes placed on young Latina…

absolute worst decision to be made in our schools. I know that when students get out of school suspension (OSS), they treat it as a vacation day and most of them use it to play video games, and then they still get to make up the work they missed. Many of my friends did this in high school. On another side of that, punishment is giving a student attention. If something is awry in the classroom, sometimes the best thing to do is ignore it. Usually in situations where the students are causing a…

sometimes they make my day miserable. Besides, trouble makers, I hope and I aspire to be a great nurse even though my intention is to become a nurse practitioner. Helping others is my mission, but my pursuit to make it happen still will take time and patience. I recognize that this journey will not be easy, but not impossible because I have the support and the interest to move towards my objective. I also want to be in the medical field because I want to able to help my family and my community,…

The “American dream,” as defined by James Truslow Adams, is the dream of “a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” Everyone, regardless of gender or skin color, strives to attain this dream of success. In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, characters such as Lily, a young white girl who tries to seek out the truth about her mother, and Rosaleen, Lily’s African American housekeeper who aspires…

they define themselves off by then? The athlete is no longer defined by their skills on the field or how they perform when they return; the athlete is defined by how they handle the adversity of an injury. For a year, from the fall of my junior year into the fall of my senior, the adversity of an injury loomed over me endlessly. The sport I had played…

modification” and “compensatory maneuvers” are all appropriate treatments for dysphagia that is secondary to MS. Depending on what type of MS the patient currently has and the severity level, I would do my best to work on compensatory maneuvers first in an effort to allow the patient to still be able to enjoy life as again, many of life’s moments is centered around food. Also depending on type of MS as well as the severity level, dietary modification and getting the patient to follow the rules…

essential to further my education and develop my knowledge. As part of my job specification, I am communicating and interacting with students and enquirers on a daily basis. Throughout this course, I hope to gain a number of transferable skills that I can use in my current job role. Whilst studying at the University, I will be able to provide other students with worthy information and feedback. Studying and developing from a student’s perspective, will hopefully enable me to transfer my…

As I careened along the course for my first ever practice, I was struck with how unusual it was for me to do something so daring. Usually very cautious, I had only been asked to join Buggy a week prior, and there I was, lying only a few inches off of the ground in a motorless buggy, with my hands in front of me to steer. Peering through the windshield with an assortment of protective gear, I watched the track zoom by at 25 miles per hour. Buggy is a sport unique to Carnegie Mellon University,…

Success is things you achieve that you want. In order for me to do that, I do all my assignments and study for tests and achieve my goals. When I do that action, it has now been considered successful. When people enjoy their work, and if it gives them an opportunity to spend time with their family and have a balanced life, they’d consider themselves successful because it happens and it works. Success is when you succeed in life. According to me when you have set some goals for yourself or you…

It was a typical day in the McDougal household; my sister was still getting acclimated to college life, my annoying little brother was pushing my buttons as usual, and my only worry was whether I was going to pass my next bio test. My dad was getting ready to leave for a business trip to Singapore but decided to stop in the doctors to check out a bulge in his abdomen. It turned out that the bump was metastasized Stage IV Liver Cancer. We were all completely devastated and couldn’t comprehend how…