My Struggles in College Essay

My Journey With Learning My desired career as a dentist lies eight years away and during four of those years I will be exposed to unrelated subjects such as math and history in order to make me a “well-rounded” individual. My journey with learning mirrors that of Samuel Scudder in his article “Look at Your Fish: In the Laboratory with Agassiz”. It is clear to see that my learning style is a product of the forced education guidelines I must follow as a U.S student; I do not learn everything…

toward my goal of earning my degree in nursing. I am a mother of a little boy with special needs. My son has Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome and he’s sick frequently. When my son gets sick, he usually has seizures, so unless someone is CPR certified, I don’t let anyone watch him. That being said, child care for my son will be one of the biggest complications I will face. With that being said, I will miss a lot of classes and it will be a set-back. Finances may also be a problem I face toward earning my…

and I saw a few advertisements for on-line college programs. I heard the success stories in the commercials, and I asked myself, “What is holding you back? “. I knew right away what the answer was. I had no motivation to go back to school and this was holding me back. I decided to stop lamenting about the reasons I didn’t have a better life and I constructed a list of reasons why I needed or wanted to go back to school. The most persuasive reasons on my list are I want a job that 's not just a…

hopeless and sordid. My vision for America is giant, bigger than you can imagine; and much larger than I can convey in an essay, but I will try my best. I have a vision, and like an architect creates their blueprints, I am going to paint you a picture. So prepare yourselves, because we, as a whole, are going to come together in unity to create the country we deserve. To demonstrate, there are roughly 158.6 million women in America (1), whereas America abounds with men of power. My mother, a…

The education trail My education trail is like a roller coaster as well as the experience. For the past four years it has felt like one too. The only difference is that it isn’t the one I’m on and for now. That’s how my school years had been like and only from high school. My trail could go way back to elementary but I prefer that to go back to four years before college. The ups and downs are like good and bad experiences I’ve dealt with. Common as it is there are good and bad liken any other…

Growing up, I always had a passion for education. School was constantly my top priority and I always loved attending school. This love for learning carried on with me all throughout middle and high school and now I cannot wait to see what is in store for me to learn in college. I have a dream school, I know what I want to major in, and I know what I am passionate about and what I want to pursue. The only road block I face is paying my way to those dreams. The school I want to go to is nearly…

scholarship I can be the first in my family graduate college and the first male in my neighborhood to complete college. My parents and I don’t have the money for me to study freely and creatively. Even though my dad works every day and night as a truck driver, it is not enough to support the family. My mom doesn’t work because she takes care of my baby brother. As my family struggles my 16 year old brother has taken a job at a restaurant to help out with the bills. I talk to my brother about the…

I’m not ever going to be good enough. The daily thoughts that rush through my head like the sea’s tide from the moment I wake up in the morning to the moment I fall asleep at night. My mind is constantly forming suffocating thoughts that I have no control over. This constant struggle of anxiety forms a dark cloud in my mind that will either stay around for awhile or go away in just moments. Anxiety has a tight grip on my life and won’t let go no matter how hard I try at times. This is a…

My college offers an honors thesis option, a career center, and a writing center. Our academic center has had a few information sessions about the GRE as well as a mock exam this past semester. I am also fortunate to go to a small college where I have a lot of one-on-one guidance from my professors. I declared a major in philosophy my during first semester and my sophomore year I was told that my college was no longer going to offer a major in philosophy after our only philosophy professor left…

many challenges we face. For example, seeking the approval of our peers, worrying about college, sports, extracurricular activities, our GPA, and finding a part time job for some students. The challenges that I want to overcome this year is catching up with prior knowledge that students already learned, procrastination and my attendance. I seriously struggled and still currently struggle with catching up with my classmates school wise. The main reason why i'm so behind is because I was very…