Balancing School and Personal Life Essay

My choice to pursue chemistry with an opportunity to study overseas directly comes from my enthusiasm to pursue a career in a chemistry based field and a chance to address my personal development. Studying undergraduate chemistry with a foundation year would facilitate an expedited route into tertiary education given the current situation I face with my A levels and presents a preferable option for advancing my career path. Studying Chemistry with a foundation years offers me the opportunity to…

You made the basketball team, but unfortunately had the most miserable time of your life. It was horrible for you. From bad coaches to unfair training, to just simply hating the sport, you decided to cut it off. After that, you went back to dance due to physical education credit at school. You did not mind it, but still did not bring you joy. After not playing volleyball for so long, you did not make the volleyball team those next years…

my health. I am a cancer survivor so my health is my number one in my life. If I’m not healthy or even happy, I can get sick. I need medication in order to survive. In the other hand, things that make me happy is my family and friends, especially when they are happy, I’m happy. I love to go out with…

The Freshman Fifteen is a generalization which suggests that once high school students go off to college, they gain fifteen pounds by the end of the year due to a variety of factors. And, unfortunately, there is always a grain of truth in generalizations. A few variables that add to this generalization are: “new eating habits, not enough exercise, drinking, and a slowing metabolism” (Health). There is no permanent cure for this dilemma, but there are steps that college administrators can take to…

No one was willing to talk to me; instead of helping, people seemed to take advantage of new kids. I was bullied for any and every reason. I was small, skinny, quiet, did not know English at all, and had a different dressing style. Life was an awful thing to love everyday and there are so many times I wanted to quit. Just end it all. I cried everyday and tried everything I could do to just fit in. I recall walking in my math class with the joy and hope of making friends. As I sat…

I believe love is the most significant piece in the puzzle we call life. If you would give a man strength, knowledge and wealth, something would still be missing… love. Love takes many forms us as human can yearn for, whether it be from family, friends or a relation with more of an intimate intent. Through personal experiences and beliefs, along with the reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in class and personal readings of the Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, I came to the conclusion that a…

the world differently because of distinct culture and belief systems. In the Fumie culture, those people learn to view the world from a darker perspective than the Western world. Fumie culture finds it acceptable to succumb to the lowest moments in life, for example suicide and shutting out completely from the outside world. On the other hand, Western culture does not find admiration and honor in suicide or accepting sadness. Both culture and belief are interdependent to each other, just like…

Part One/Question 1 Wendell Berry’s augment about morality shows that morality is universal; it is not a list of rules, but a way of life to be practiced. Morality is the possibility for people to flourish in happiness, while considering the implications of those actions for future generations. The outcomes of our happiness will not be seen as instant karma for our children, but by what world is left for them to flourish in. Moreover, this world is not ours, we are only temporary residents of…

I Believe Happy mind, happy life is a saying to live by. Once you push the negative out of your life and think positive and happy, life will be so much better for yourself and others around you. I believe once you have a happy mind, you have a happy life. At the end of my sophomore year, I was stressing about every little thing you could think of to stress about. Summer was right around the corner, finals were starting, softball was starting, I was trying to manage a job that I so badly wanted…

After being disappointed, I would keep distance from a person without clarifying the reasons. This behavior might be generated from a vulnerability problem I discussed above. Expressing disappointment means admitting the importance of a person in one’s life. Only after taking a closer look at my happiness, I noticed that shunning from a person causes more harm than openly expressing my emotions. The last time friend upset me, I felt the need to hide disappointment in the beginning, but followed…