Elmira College

that my time at Eastern Guilford high School will be coming to an end soon, an end that came all too fast. Because I know that this time will not last forever, I have to set and maintain goals for the rest of my life. One of these is to graduate college with my master’s degree in Psychology. Although I don’t know for sure which career path I want to take, I know that Psychology is the field for me. I have superb social skills and that is something that comes naturally to me and I want to build…

reprimanded often. Which tends to depress and improve my studies depending on the situation, Eventually I had mustered enough courage and gathered weeks worth of information to back up my desire to go overseas for college. Although I wasn’t sure how to tell my family the plan I had thought out for college, so i started small and decided to tell my parents first to gauge how they would react, and then I would break the news to the rest of the family. I had explained to them that I wanted to…

Not surprisingly, college is the most important part of one 's education. Furthermore, education is incredibly important to each and every one of us. I see the immense importance in education because without education, chaos reigns. Because of this, all Americans need to attend college because college gives one the best opportunity to be successful in life. There are many pathways through the educational system. However, the pathway does not stop at the end of high school. The road to…

Community colleges used to partake a reputation for being less academically serious. However, they’ve astonished by a large amount of opportunities for all students that want to succeed. A whole viewpoint of positive perspectives upholds among those that remain on the run for a new pathway. Moreover, standards and recognition improved along with the level of education students receive. Choosing a community college greatly benefits students making it the best choice of school. Also, diversity…

Architecture is a competitive subject to major on due to the intelligence of each student and the environment around each school. Around America architects tend to want to choose a great school to get their architecture diploma from. Architects design the community whether it’s a building, house, park or a residential. Indoors or outdoors the planning and design has to overwhelm the spectator. Becoming an architect takes simple steps: getting a degree in architecture, becoming an intern with…

variety of intentional career-related activities such as vocational assessments, job interviews, college visits, and other post school planning activities” have developed workforce skills that helped prepare them for the workforce. This has allowed the SLD student to keep their employment status after high school and provide a means for the SLD student to further their education by attending a two-year college program or enroll in on the job training provided by the company they…

more about how much money you can make from that career instead of what you love doing and transforming that into a career. The truth of the matter is that it is okay to not know exactly what it is you want to do in college, or to choose a major and switch. Choosing a major in college should not feel like a burden, rather it should feel like one of the first steps you take to starting life in the real world. Just like real life, it is okay to…

From Adolescence to Adulthood: Writing at the College Level Well known for her research and publications on student writing, Nancy Sommers—now Harvard’s Expository Writing Program Director—discusses revision strategies in the journal College Composition and Communication. Throughout this essay, I will be focusing on three articles: “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers” (1980), “Between the Drafts” (1992), and finally, “the Novice as Expert” (2004) which she…

Going to a four-year college can be very beneficial, but sometimes college isn’t cut out for some students. Some students can not focus in a classroom environment. Students that go to college sometimes end up being underemployed or unemployed if they can not find a job in their degree. If they can not find a job in their degree of work then they are stuck with a huge debt to pay. Students in Tamaqua Area High School have an opportunity in 10th grade to go to a Vocational Technical school called…

Ever since I could remember going to college was something that my parents always talked to us about. My parents wanted my siblings and I to have more opportunities than they did. Coming to the United States in 1979, my parents never realized that going to college was an option for them. The language barrier for them was hard to overcome and their main priority was to maintain themselves financially. They acquired jobs in factories, as night porters, as maintenance workers and anything else they…