Teresa EN 110.6.3 Achieving Academic Excellence August 25‚ 2013 Why College Is Important To Me? Underachiever is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary‚ as a person or thing that performs below expectations. I was a pregnant teenager‚ dropped out of high school‚ and married shortly thereafter. I have felt I have been an underachiever ever since. My school-aged children ask me‚ “Mommy‚ why didn’t you go to college?” I want to be a good role-model to my children and let them know to never
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Affairs position at Tallahassee Community College comes from my experience as a community college student. My family was not able to finance my education after I completed high school. This led me to look into attending my local community college because the tuition was affordable. Without the community college system‚ it would have been difficult for me to achieve my academic goals. This is one of the reasons I am passionate about community colleges and their mission. This experience also led
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Goals My reason for applying to Empire State is to complete my degree in Interdisciplinary Studies and Bachelor’s degree in Business Management. A college education will assist me in acquiring a range of knowledge in many subjects‚ as well as advanced knowledge in the specific subjects I am interested in. Throughout my career in the military I have received training in many aspects of leadership‚ and management. The training encompassed a variety of areas which included human resources and logistical
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College Costs and Prices One thing that is stressed the most in today’s society is a college education. Not only do parents want their children to have one‚ something that is even more stressed is the price we pay to obtain one. Something that needs to be understood is the difference between college costs and college prices. College costs refer to what the institutions spend on education and related services‚ while college prices are what the students and their families are charged for a higher
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Discrimination in College/University Admissions There can be many factors that determine whether or not you can get into a college. Do you have the grades‚ are you involved in your community‚ have you been convicted. Many questions like those listed above have been commonly asked to applicants who apply for major colleges universities. However‚ you are never asked your ethnicity during an interview‚ usually they give you an application to fill out and they have a space that allows you to check
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College Inc. After watching the documentary College Inc‚ I have come to the realization that colleges are not at all as they seem. Many colleges are a for-profit college which is institutions being operated by profit-seeking business. This video was pretty much about for-profit schools tuition being more than community college tuition. It was also about the lengths that for-profit schools will go to get as many people to enroll there and get the funds necessary to keep the college alive. The
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Mark Huntsman Don Airhart College Composition 2/23/2014 College Life College is for students who are just graduating high school‚ or older people who are going back to school for a better chance at achieving their goals for a better job. College life has been‚ and still is portrayed as being nothing but partying‚ and having fun by the media. People have mixed ideas of how college life really is. In some movies and TV shows college students are young and fresh out of high school. High school students
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My college life A student like me is one of the thousand students in MSU-IIT who strive for the future in an institution which is renowned for its excellence when it comes to its graduates. Just a normal college student with a normal life living in a dormitory which is quite far from the campus vicinity and a teenager from Pagadian City went to Iligan City to pursue the dream of becoming an engineer with all the things that my parent gave me and the will to fulfill the chosen path what
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27 October 2013 College Debt Crisis Everyone who desires to go to college one day will eventually be facing the number one question that may or may not make the decision for them; do I have enough money to go? It seems to be the reason a lot of people finish high school and decide to just start working. “A job after high school helps set realistic expectations and firm up goals” (Johnson). Some kids‚ fill out the necessary paperwork‚ only to find out their parents make too much money and end up
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Incivility in College Classrooms Incivility thrives through our modern society and into the classrooms and campuses of colleges. Incivility can automatically be thought of as the improper behavior or insulting other people based of race‚ looks‚ ect. However‚ incivility exists in classrooms where the professor experiences disrespect in multiple forms. Colleges obtain a policy towards incivility and proper conduct‚ however the importance of respect and civility in the actual classroom can be found
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