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college in the state of Texas, but I thought I would not enjoy living down south. Right around April, I decided to enroll at Purdue as a biochemistry major (chemistry concentration) with the goal of attending Medical School. I enjoyed Chemistry in High school so I thought that I would breeze through it in college. Towards the end of the first semester, I realized that I was in over my head, and I changed my major to biochemistry (biology concentration). It did not take long for me to come to the…

All seniors in this High school rotated between school and work, two weeks at school and two weeks at work to acquire practical hands on training within their major. For example, a Cosmetology student would work two weeks at a hair salon to gain practical experience and go…

to achieve this dream for most people is to attend a college or university right after high school. High schools strongly encourage all students to try and go to a great four year college, but is this absolutely necessary. These days it seems that if one does not attend college and receive a degree, they are not respectable or they are not as intelligent as others. This is not true. Many people who are in high school simply aren’t cut out for such rigorous and so-called “standard” college…

Speaker Alexandra Robbins is a New York Times bestselling author of Pledged and The Overachievers. She’s spent over a decade “examining… various microcosms in U.S schools” and is the 2007 recipient of the Heartsongs award for her contributions to the mental health of children and young adults (Robbins, 6). Robbins immediately establishes credibility by featuring her credentials in her About the Author section and mentioning her experience in U.S schools early on in the book. In The Geeks Shall…

I sit on Erin 's bed next to Petunia the cat. Petunia is probably my favorite Augustine cat although it 's just so hard to pick favorites. She has the cutest orange and black pattern. Not that Charlie and Rosie aren 't cute but they 're both so mean to Petunia, she 's old and weak and her purr is the most adorable noise and she never tries to hurt them but they always attack her. The only sound is the sound of Erin typing on her computer. Our paper is due tomorrow and neither of us have started,…

College Admissions: Beyond Conventional Testing believes that in order for students to be successful in college and in the world they must do more than reach benchmark on a standardized test; they need skills beyond remembering knowledge they learned in high school and analytical reasoning (Sternburg, 2012). Though knowing how to do the algebra or geometry needed to score benchmark on the ACT would be a good thing to know when entering college, knowledge is only part of what it takes to be…

I was born on February 25th 1998 at St Michael 's hospital in Toronto. I grew up in a part of Toronto called Bloor west village where I lived with my parents and my sister Lauren who is three years older than me. I attended Runnymede public school for both junior and senior kindergarten. My interests in my toddler years were T-ball, skiing and going to park with my best friend Carson. I learned to ski at a very young age, I was just 18 months when I first attempted to put on my sister…

potential, individuality, etc. There are preposterous amounts of things to discover in college, but the only way to achieve the opportunity is by staying in school and graduating. There are many numbers of possibilities to learn about yourself in high school, but the thing about college is that you are responsible for yourself and for some the only person you can be dependent on is yourself. Hard work, dedication and perseverance are the three factors that will carry one through schooling,…

My first years going to an American school were very challenging because I didn’t know how to speak English. Everything else was different too; the school, the classrooms, the students, the rules, the food, just everything. It was a totally new culture I had to adapt to in order to fit in with the rest. Diana Drake emphasizes, “If an Anglo teacher is unaware that children growing up in different cultures may learn different values and may learn to attach different meanings to particular…

Throughout my high school days I had always seen myself as the girl that would go into college as soon as I graduated. That was how I was raised to think that right as you graduate the only proper thing to do is to enroll in college and spent the next four years of my life working hard to start my life. Sounds enticing right?. As my young nieve self I didn’t know any better, and simply listened to the words of my father “Work hard now so you don’t have to later”. With those words doing laps in…