Graduate

The closer I get to graduation, there has many thoughts going through my mind. I have thought about taking a vacation and focusing on raising my daughter. By the time I graduate, my daughter will be one-year-old and I would love to be able to be a stay at home mother. If I decide to spend as much time as I can with my daughter, I plan on having a part time job in order to have a foot in the door once I decide to become full time. Another thought that I have been considering is continuing my…

the driving force behind their academic success thus far. (CONTEXT) Jeff Atwood, an Oklahoma State University graduate, worked 30 hour weeks at a landscaping business in order to complete his degree. “I had no financial support from mom and dad, I had just married my girlfriend of 3 years and I needed to be able to support us both,” Atwood said. “I would not have been able to graduate without that job.” (IMPACT) Students who work a modest number of hours per week are far more likely than other…

$1.2 trillion is the student debt of Americans as of 2014 according to the New York Daily News. How can college be worth it, if collectively Americans owe this much money in debt. Part of the problem is increased tuition, another problem is people who do not have the funds for college are spending irresponsibly. Is college worth it; it most certainly is. College provides opportunities that would be otherwise impossible. College provides you with the opportunity to form new relationships,…

it reaches the stander which was established school by school. In addition, the cost of TOEFL test was two hundred dollars each time which are extremely expensive for me. I took TOEFL test for five times but I still not fit my graduate school requirement yet (the graduate school requires 100 out of 120 on TOFEL score). TOEFL test diverse into four different section which includes the reading, listening, speaking and writing. Each category has maximum 30 points on it. During the reading test, you…

Attending college has become a vital factor to be successful in American society. Since pregnancy, parents start creating a plan so that they will save enough money to afford sending their kids to college. Higher education is the cornerstone for obtaining a better quality of life in which basic and self-actualization needs are met. Every year the number of people attending college increases. In fact, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), during fall of 2016, about…

Imagine if one didn’t know what the universe contained. What if the simplest knowledge of what the sparkling objects in the night sky are wasn’t known, or that earth rotates around the sun, not the other way around. If facts like these weren’t known, people would have a great fear of the unknown. Imagine how people would think of the universe. Without astronomers the known would still be part of the unknown. Astronomers have a very unique job description that includes the study of stars, planets…

Like every child, I went through the ubiquitous “why” stage where I posed this question even to the smallest, most mundane events of life. Filled with genuine curiosity and fascination, I desired to understand the ornate workings of the world. Unlike the majority of children, however, I did not lose this fervor and drive to find answers. This inquisitiveness laid the foundation for my interest in research work. Growing up, my family placed a tremendous emphasis on health, fitness, and nutrition…

This is supported in the fact that post graduate students have a higher intention of creating a new business in the next 5 years (36.2%), while the intention of undergraduate students is just 18.4% (See Table 1.13) 3.4 FINDING 3: RELIABILITY ANALYSIS Analysing reliability statistics regarding…

Road Trip Nation Reflection Our Road Trip Nation project consisted of interviews with Larandust Coleman, Senior Assistant Athletic Trainer for Football at the University of Mississippi, and Dr. Rebecca Lowe, Clinical Assistant Professor and Co-director of Speech and Hearing Clinic. Both interviews consisted of a similar set of questions, varying only slightly based on their occupation and field. Throughout the Road Trip Nation interview process, in addition to reviewing the interviews in their…

Education is a resource that is available to most people in the United States. The value and the ways it is administered often various from person to person. Michelle Obama and Mike Rose are both advocates of educational value. They exhibit their positions on education in two documents; Blue-Collar Brilliance by Mike Rose and Bowie State University Commencement Speech by Michelle Obama. Rose’s document focuses on the degrading of educational attributes that are not gained in the preferred…