The Bachelor

Approaching the one year anniversary of my start date at NAVSEA, the force behind the ships in the United States Navy fleet, I want to return to school and take graduate courses in Engineering Management at Temple University. After graduating with a notable four year Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Widener University, in Chester, Pennsylvania, I immediately joined the working world ten days after graduation and gained sound experience by working in the Integrated Logistic…

When I was first asked to do this interview assignment, I was very concerned as to who I would be interviewing. I did not want to interview any random Engineer because it would not be pertinent to my future career. The few people I would be able to interview that were family friends, were not Electrical Engineers. I knew of a Civil, Chemical, and Mechanical Engineer, none of which I found to fit my assignment. I wanted to specifically interview an Electrical Engineer because they would be able…

Life is full of choices. Everything we do is according to our own wills and desires. For a long time, people have thought that education is a path to success. People who are educated tend to succeed in life; as the opposite, people without education tend to struggle. There are many strategies to obtaining a good education, and one of the most realistic ways for earning an education is going to school. I am from Vietnam where the percentage of population who are literate is still high. Because…

Regarding the Worth of College In this paper I will be arguing for why college is worth it. Worth in this context is going to be thought of in terms of quality of job, rid of debt at some point, and more options open to a person. The reason for questioning why college would not be worth it is as follows: As price of school increases and jobs are not promised many students such as myself wonder if going to college is worth it. A four year degree alone can rack up debt. I have found completing a…

Doing College the Liberal Arts Way: A Response to, ‘What do you do with a B.A. in history?’ Liberal Education is an approach to learning that empowers individuals and prepares them to deal with complexity, diversity, and change. Ken Saxon, a graduate student from Princeton, presents his ideas about students taking this approach to college in his writing titled, “What do you do with a B.A. in history?” It discusses how students with knowledge of the wider world are more prepared for life after…

John Meier was born in 1933 and raised on Long Island, New York. He worked briefly for the New York Life Insurance Company before being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1952 and sent to the war in Korea. Upon his honorable discharge in 1954, Meier returned to working for New York Life.[1] In 1959, Meier was hired in the computer division at Hughes Aircraft and two years later transferred to Hughes Dynamics, a Los Angeles-based information management subsidiary of the Hughes Tool Company."[2]…

The job market of the American society is a big market with many jobs that we need, but are often being overlooked by those looking for jobs. Many of those jobs that are overlooked are ones such as manufacturing, industrial, construction, etc. because those looking for jobs simply don’t know much about them. We need to know what it takes to be prepared and trained for the modern working world. We need to know whose job it is to prepare students for the demands of the modern working world. Also…

Higher Education or Not? Charles Murray, in his article “Are too Many People Going to College?” addresses that students should learn the “core knowledge” from an early age. He underlines that children in grades kindergarten through eighth are far better off with memorization and learning the facts easier. He also argues that in high school children should only take social science and humanities courses that will prepare them for college classes. Murray states that going to four year college…

The process of deciding whether or not to continue my education was a long one. I had to weigh many pro 's and con 's, and had long thoughts and conversations with family and friends. I had to start by thinking of two things: my personal and my professional goals. Both of these goals were unattainable without having a degree. My personal goal included: owning my own home, finding a partner with similar interests, and being able to financially support a family without fear of the future. My…

Growing up it was all about chalkboards and dry erase boards. You would have to listen to the screeching of the chalk as it hit the green tinted boards or smell the chemicals emanating from the dry erase markers. That is how elementary school and most of my middle school was. However, once I got to eighth grade things started changing. Projection boards were being installed and new software was being used like Publisher and PowerPoint. Then high school happened and smart boards were being…