Alumni by university or college

the adjacent neighborhood. My grocery store represented the diversity of my city, causing me to question why such diversity did not exist in my educational experience. My parents, like many financially able families in my area, sent me to a private college preparatory school to avoid the failing school system in East Baton Rouge Parish. While my school’s white population totaled eighty percent, Caucasian children represented the minority group in my neighborhood public school. As…

and realize what I value and truly enjoy doing rather than going about almost robotically because I was told to. Paul wished that he had taken the time out in college to study subjects that matter to him most especially with business development that could have benefit him in the long run. In addition, he believes that skipping out on college would be one of the biggest risks an entrepreneur could…

Ukrainian and Swiss-German on his father’s side, and German, Irish, and English on his mother’s side. Steve Wozniak is best known as one of the Steve’s that founded Apple Inc. Wozniak was fascinated with electronics at an early age. While attending the University of California in Berkeley he was introduced to Steve Jobs through a mutual friend. They became friends while working at Hewlett-Packard (HP) where Wozniak was working on a mainframe computer. Steve Jobs worked for Atari in 1973…

past decade, I have built a strong academic foundation filled with diverse awards from top colleges. Having a firm grasp of the concept that nothing beats real world experience, I also took opportunities during and after college to work for premier companies. Concurrently, I expanded my entrepreneurial skills, as I worked on a design and web development to create the online presences for the Delhi College of Engineering, then e-learning solutions for elementary schools, and finally development…

stallion of a man in a three piece suit and a briefcase they will say “Wow, he is educated, powerful and must be financially stable.” However, if they see me wearing Jeans and a T-shirt to work they will say “He must work at a Wendy’s or he didn’t go to college and put forth the effort”. I am a person who worries about what others think of them so my outcome in life is very important to me. If I must take a pay cut in the career I love, I would happily accept because it is something I have…

Although my past relationship was not “Facebook Official” as we call it nowadays and we never really went on “dates,” I still consider this a relationship to myself. There was a physical connection that I felt towards this person, but I wonder if he felt the same connection that I did. Life in a small town… I grew up in the small town of Shenandoah – one of those small towns where everyone knows everyone, word gets around and rumors spread like wildfire. Even though my “relationship” was kept…

“real Sooner” is entitled “The Sooner Legacy” and it centers around the life of Minjie Jiang, a student who moved to the United States from China. In the 10-20-minute documentary, Jiang portrays what a “real Sooner” is through his actions at the University of Oklahoma. While Jiang’s past is important, the documentary opens up with a few shots of Jiang’s daily life at OU. Jiang wakes up at 8 a.m. every morning to attends his classes for his business major, helps friends with their homework,…

education systems “educational failure puts the United States’ future economic prosperity, global position, and physical safety at risk,” warns the Task Force”. Education is lacking because sometimes students are lazy, half of U.S. students that are college bound need to retake classes to graduate, and the lack of education leads to unemployment. Also if America wants increase education they should make it more affordable, they should also make the food and help for health more accessible and…

Though I did well in high school, I didn’t have a motivation to go to college. First, I was born in a country where college education is worthless without family contacts, and second, I didn’t realize the world I was living in and was lazy. I was lazy, never enjoyed studying, but did well in high school simply because I was constantly under pressure from my mother to do so. I was born in Georgia, the country in Eastern Europe. It was a part of the Soviet Union and suffered enormously when the…

I had the opportunity to conduct a phone interview with Christina Scribner the owner of Encompass Nutrition located in Littleton, Colorado. The purpose of this interview was to further my knowledge on managing a nutrition related health practice. Christina is a registered dietitian and certified specialist in sports dietetics and eating disorders. She has a master’s degree in human nutrition and a minor in exercise physiology and pharmacology. I chose to interview Christina because of her…