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Institute of Greensboro. He was one of the first employees I met Cone Elementary, when he discovered I was a graduate student at North Carolina A&T State University our interactions became more frequent. He was excited to know that I was pursuing my Masters in School Counseling, he spoke very highly of the counseling profession and about his experience. He always offered me help pertaining to my graduate studies if I needed anything. I did not know that he was a substitute until our initial…

Universities are most brilliant and highly prestigious throughout the world. Consequently, by participating in one of various high quality programs I can improve my knowledge and also reach my educational aims. Concordia University is providing numerous graduate programs with brilliant background and high educated professors in engineering faculty so I plan to continue my education there. Furthermore, Canadian and in specific Concordia university management degrees are highly credible. I am…

The main theme of the article was to try and convince doubtful people that no matter what condition one is currently dealing with, college is always a possibility. The article explains 10 different scenarios, which each contain an argument for college attendance. Excuse 1 - The first paragraph argues that some students believe that since their family has never gone to college before, that they might be breaking some family tradition. The author then argues that “not going to college is the…

High school and college are two incredibly different environments. College forces you to grow up and to have a different perspective on life and, high school prepares you for the social norms that come along with it. Young adults begin to strive for the different lifestyles that they’ve never experienced because college allows them to see what can become. Goals change once students strive for a higher education. High school does not as nearly the same amount of people determined to change their…

organization of the essay and the smooth transition between the main ideas. The author has a very attractive start, which sets up the credibility of his argument that Flint is stereotyped. He began by stating some sentences from a philosopher’s speech on graduate school, which, also, addressed how students are not valued for being from Flint. O’Dea begins his essay, “She wanted to be gentle, but a philosopher does not hide the truth. ‘It’s tough to get out of Flint,’ [the philosopher] told us.…

While working for the Educational Opportunity Fund program, I experienced one of the most heart-wrenching moments of my life. It was a regular Thursday afternoon, I was sitting in the office with my co-Resident Assistant when I received a random phone call from my mother. I found it odd that my mother was calling me during my shift, but I picked up her phone call anyway. When I picked up the phone, she was crying hysterically, I froze and asked her repeatedly, “What’s going on?!” with sorrow,…

to have kids and we take the necessary precautions which led to the challenge of lack of sexual intimacy. Another challenge that we can see on in the near foreseeable is how our time spent together will change after graduation. She plans to attend graduate school in Iowa and the law school I want to attend is in Ohio, which would put Indiana and Illinois, which is ironically the states we grew up in, between…

The onset of my passion about learning science and technology in education, an intensive interest which has now evolved into an aspiration and a pursuit in the field, happened after joining the POMI (Programmable Open Mobile Internet) research team in the School of Education at Stanford University. Working as an active team member at site visit for POMI 2020 at Stanford University, developing numerous mobile applications on Androids, researching better approach to teach students in informal and…

Statement of Purpose Sophomore year in high school was the first time in my life where I had a teacher who truly made a profound impact on my academic career. He was my first ever accounting teacher, and he not only taught what would go on to be my favorite class of my high school experience, but he also inspired me to pursue the career path that I have chosen here at Iowa; Accounting. Although I excelled in my first accounting course, my academic career in accounting has been anything but…

The Great Recession had left me bewildered, confused and not really knowing what to do with myself. I had lost my decent paying job and my savings along with it. It was in 2010 that I had lucked into a job with a local non-profit after being unemployed for quite some time. I loved the work even though my position was mostly relegated to office duties. It was during this time I decided I wanted to pursue an education in social work. This wasn’t going to be easy for a single mother with two…