Junior college

My Rural School My school and community is very important to me. I have a special relationship with my school and the people in it. My grades are very important to me. I have a goal to get into a certain college, and I can not do this without good grades, I can not get into the college I want. My future job for me is to be an optometrist. My school has lots of fun activities, football in my school is the most popular sport. This past year, we have gone to the state championship, and have gone…

All the while taking honors courses and a college level geography course. I have won numerous awards academic wise including: math wiz award, Elks National Writing Contest state runner-up, and placed in the top 5% of 8th graders (as a 7th grader) in the National Scholastic Academic Contest. In Junior high, I was accepting into the FLIGHT Academy (a personalised learning program) to accommodate my hard-working attitude and…

In order to achieve my goal and dream of becoming an agriculture teacher I need to further my education by attending CSU Chico’s College of Agriculture. I come from a household where income is tight as my mother provides for me and my two sisters. She supports the extra curricular activities me and my siblings want to do. She plans to help fund my college expenses, however it will be a struggle. This scholarship will help be a way to alleviate some of that stress and be a positive investment…

What motivates you? My son will always be my biggest motivation. He is one of the main reasons I started college. He will be turning two in July, and he always loves to receive a new ball. I would buy him one every day; if I could afford it, just to see the smile that lights up his face. To introduce, I am a psychology major at Southern New Hampshire University. I chose this major because it called to me. I have always struggled with anxiety and depression, and I believe it will be helpful to my…

Following Veterinary Science Abroad Stephanie Velez, Junior in Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Pennsylvania State University While enrolled at the Milton Hershey School, I began taking Agricultural Education classes due to their career development education curriculum. The class taught about a variety different agricultural topics and I found my passion in the discussion on veterinary medicine. Since elementary school, I had always wanted to be a veterinarian. Agricultural Education class…

Wise Money Choices + College Costs = Minimal Stress I cannot believe I have made it this far this quickly. It feels like just yesterday when I was accepting my diploma from Mr. Salvatore, my middle school principal and crying while hugging friends who I knew would be attending a different high school than I. Then, on that hot September day, walking through what I thought must have been the biggest school in the state of New Jersey, I got lost, made new friends, and college was but a dwarfed…

These last few months, I’ve been thinking a lot about growing up. As a junior in high school, I’m just starting to consider what colleges I want to apply to and careers I want to explore. Thinking ahead five years is not very uncommon during this point in my life, and I’ve had plenty of time to think about the changes that becoming an adult will bring about. Hopefully, most of these changes will be for the better as I move forward to achieve my goals. Living on my own. When I turn eighteen, I…

Well Getting Smart Going to college is neither cheap or easy. So for the majority of students one has to work and go to school. With school being a full time job any extra commitments may seem impossible. So in order to balance school and work effectively one has to be dedicated to what they are doing. To be a successful college student a weekly to do list and schedule must be written and kept. Planning a week is easy but sticking to that plan is the hard part. Many college students struggle…

that they are not able to handle. If we continue to rush children to learn more complex information than what was expected a few years ago, more children will struggle and be left behind because they have higher expectations. In the beginning of my junior year, I started to cry because I was feeling stressed. I was overwhelmed because I signed up for honors English…

considerable on a job application to a law firm because it will show that I have integrity. I plan on achieving this goal by performing well now (in high school) and by showing great potential in my school work also, during my first year in regular college I want to do an internship at a firm on the island that way I will have a sense of how things will work when I become a lawyer. In conclusion, my goals in high school and after high school shows the commitment of me trying to live a better…