Why am I attending college? I enrolled in school for a few reasons. First off I was told that to get a Five Rating (the highest rating) on my next Enlisted Performance Report would have to have completed or be enrolled in college. So in order to keep myself on a strong footing for promotion I needed to head back to school. Second‚ I am looking to better myself not for a performance report but for myself. Completing college is something I’ve wanted to do for a while now. At my previous assignment
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assistance to attend Gateway. I am a non-traditional student‚ living below the poverty level while raising two children under age 12 as a single Mom. I have the financial burdens of keeping a roof over our heads‚ the lights on‚ and the house warm in the winter. I am working two part-time jobs in my field of study while attending college to make ends meet. I have taken out student loans to ease my financial burden‚ but I do not want to keep increasing the amount of debt I am in. Due to my financial situation
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Middle College at Eastern Kentucky University is an expensive program but we are not “at risk” nor are we an “experiment”. The students who attend Middle College are not and were not “at risk”. One‚ our curriculum is much harder than the traditional high school students. In the traditional high school students receive three hundred minutes‚ give or take‚ of in class learning time per class each week. At Middle College we only receive one hundred and fifty minute of class time per class each
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Well there are different varieties of students who attend college but each have their own reasons. There are three types of reasons I could think of that are main examples of why students attend college. First off‚ there are students who go to college not only to learn‚ but to play sports to possibly make it big in the NFL‚ NBA‚ etc… For example‚ most students‚ actually a big number of students are talented and don’t want their skills to go to waste. So they play sports hoping to succeed. Then there
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Why attend a college? There are several people who don’t attend to college‚ not knowing that a degree will help with many things. Attending a college is the first step to obtain all three of these results. First‚ people work at a place where they are there only for the high salary. Secondly‚ others don’t spend much time with their family or friends for the reason that they need to work in order to provide. Finally‚ there are several people who have jobs that they dislike. A college is able to
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junior. As a freshman‚ a sophomore‚ and a junior‚ my body and my mind continued to exert stress. My parents‚ like other parents‚ tend to forget that students today‚ deal with more stress than they did as students. The competition of getting into college‚ the stress of schoolwork‚ and the responsibility of managing their time when playing sports can overwhelm me as a high school student. The number of talented high school seniors applying to college has continued to grow each year. According to Petersons
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with the things of this world. Meaning that they were born and raised in a Christian environment‚ went to a Christian school for twelve years‚ and now that college is upon them they are most likely to attend a Christian college. Which‚ they is nothing wrong with that; however‚ Christians should have an option weather to attend a Christian college or not. Sometimes in life we are so sheltered by the environment we are in; that when we experience a different environment it is a shock and we do not know
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October 20‚2012 My Motivation Hotheaded‚ arrogant‚ and condescending are just three of the many traits I hate about my father. Growing up I never really had a father figure to look up to. All I had was my mom and two brothers to look up to and that didn’t always work out. Then when my father was around all the environment consisted of was fighting between him and my mother‚ or he would be sleeping on the couch. Everyone wants to be daddy’s chip of the ol’block‚ yet I strive and try in order to
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2013 Textual Analysis 1 Should Everyone Attend College? In Charles Murray’s work “Are Too Many People Going to College”‚ first published in The American September 8‚ 2008‚ he asks that very vital question: Are too many attending college? To fully grasp what is meant by this question one must take into account all major factors of a college education and career opportunities elsewhere. Murray believes that‚ “To ask whether too many people are going to college requires us to think about the importance
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Christopher De Leon 02/05/12 Three Reasons to Attend College There are many reasons to attend college‚ for many of us we are pushed by our parents to acquire the highest level of education‚ possibly an education they haven’t acquired themselves. We are taught at an early age that education is the "only" way to achieve success. I think that is no way to push a person to go to school. I believe we all have a choice to choice what we want to do‚ and
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