Associate's degree

“Only a life lived in the service of others is a life worth living,” said by Albert Einstein. I am interested in becoming a health care professional because bettering the lives of others is such a rewarding way to live your life. I also have a love for anatomy and physiology which I discovered my senior year in high school in my Health Occupations class. In the class we learned about each system in the body and did multiple dissections, and I loved every second of it. That is how I…

The most life-changing moment in my life was to move from different culture to western. I am Muslim 21 years old. I came to the USA in 2011. I am studying associate in arts and will continue my bachelor 's in business after I get married next year. I had so many majors earlier when I got admitted to COD, my first major was pharmacy, then I changed it to accounting in which I got a scholarship but in my last year I finally decided to study business. I define myself as a kind and responsible…

People are burning out from just working a "Job" to live comfortable but in the long run a "Career" will save you from burnout, a college degree does not guarantee people will live comfortably and make a lot of money right after college, but hard work pays the price as Jennie LE says " Realistically, having a college degree will likely mean a comfortable living and the opportunity to move up at work and in life" (5). Some people just have to give it time, but the people with college…

More importantly, why you think is worth to spend four years in university? Freeman hrabowski in his article, “College prepare people for life,” states college is prepare people for jobs, but more critically, they prepare people for life.” Without degree, it most likely you will not get the job you want, the goal you hope to desire and there are many companies, school will reject you. College education prepares student for a well benefits job and meet their general job requirement; however,…

Certain bachelor’s degree provide basis for the argument that higher education is not worth the cost because their return of investment is significantly lower, meaning that of what an individual earns over a lifetime, a large portion of that is dedicated to their educational…

while spending long hours studying afterwards. When I am not studying or attending class I will be busy working and in my downtime at work I intend on using that time to study when I gain the chance. My goals at Central Lakes College are to gain my AA degree with honors and to continue my educational journey transferring to the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities location. With the intent of furthering my studies…

received a school grade that didn’t quite meet the well-known expectation of his household. John was raised under the notion being well-educated identifies as having earned high grades throughout grade school and high school and having obtained a college degree. As John’s horizons broadened with age, he came to understand the term “well-educated” was simply relative and held a variety of definitions distinctive to one’s life. John’s mother would subliminally attempt to persuade John’s choice of…

was random. The scenes that I witnessed were heartbreaking. In 2006, I moved to Egypt where I was exposed to new life, new culture, and new delict to learn. In Egypt if an engineer is homeless it is not a surprise; the degree in Egypt has no value. My uncle had an engineering degree, yet he was unemployed. At that time, I was in middle school and I realized that Egypt is not the place that I want to be in because, I did not have a future there. My grandfather always use to say that I should work…

If you have an option, would you invest all the money that is put towards education or would you rather have a college degree with an enormous student loan debt? Do you think what you learn while attending college is going to help you have a certain skill that will be used often in your future career? In today’s society with the economic status being in a recession, companies will not hire someone who is not beneficial for their corporation. The companies base their hiring criteria on people’s…

college education. Higher education has been lamanted as “an economic imperative”(Owen and Sawhill 208) that can no longer be seen as optional or supplemental for people hoping to to attain a job in the workforce. This means that without getting a degree, you are not only shirking your responsibility as a functioning member of society, but you are also cutting yourself out of your own possible economic prospects. This relatively new attitude towards higher learning resulted in noticeable…