c a l i f o r n i a Berkeley Why is the personal statement so important? As a vital part of your application‚ the personal statement—consisting of responses to two prompts—is reviewed by both the Admissions and the Scholarship Offices. At Berkeley we use the Personal Statement to: • discover and evaluate distinctions among applicants whose academic records are often very similar; • gain insight into your level of academic‚ personal and extracurricular achievement; • provide us with information
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Personal Finance Chris Cannard‚ Van Trinh‚ Jommel Esteybar‚ Edward Sy‚ Cricket Williams‚ Trey Vogel San Jose State University Abstract Many people assume that handling personal finances is straightforward and can be done with little to no preparation. This paper delves into the many different aspects of personal finance. It discusses the tools that we are learning in class and explains how these tools that can be used to save for retirement. It offers tips to improve your financial standing
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Personal Responsibility Tamie Reppert GEN/200 October 22‚ 2012 Heather Todd Abstract This essay is about personal responsibilities and how it is among our daily lives. Responsibilities are in our personal lives‚ in work‚ and in school. Without personal responsibility‚ our lives could be so unorganized‚ and we would not be able to accomplish our goals in life. Personal responsibility plays a big role in college success. If we do not have responsibility‚ our work in school will show it.
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but both have neglected their personal responsibilities. They have both come to an inevitable fact of life that we all have hard choices to make. Some are beyond our control‚ some are activities we do or morals we follow because they happen to be imperative to our success and our survival just the same. Activities like going to work so we can have shelter and food‚ or making sure we drink a certain amount of water every week so we wont die. Society has placed personal responsibility on a high pedestal
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My Personal Hero Over the summer‚ I moved into a new house with my mom and brother. This will be approximately the twelfth time I have moved houses in my lifetime. The twelfth time I have packed up my life and relocated. The twelfth time I have seen my mother prevail through trying times. My parents divorced when I was four. I can recall the separation well. My mom had to start over with my younger brother and me at her side‚ a single mother with two very young children. She has always strived to
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In life‚ we all have goals. My main goals are set based on my academics and then I have my personal goals. If one does not set high standards‚ then what will one have to strive for? At first glance‚ Lampasas looks to be a small-town with nothing to do. Living in Lampasas‚ it is either a huge challenge to be accepted or one of those things that just happens. In Lampasas‚ there aren’t many places to eat‚ a pool or two‚ and just enough gas stations to cover the entire map of Lampasas. Living here as
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UC Personal Statement Growing up as a child I never really had worries. The only worry I had was who would beat me to the monkey bars during recess. I had what I like to call the most boisterous childhood I could ever ask for. No problems seemed to head my direction. Obviously‚ I was a child what could possibly go wrong? Young kids don’t actually start understanding certain things until they are about 11 or 12 years of age‚ but me I knew the exact words that came out of the lady I would call my
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Personal Branding is already conflicting with Company Branding outside the work place. A middle school teacher was suspended with pay for making remarks about her students on Face Book (Norwalk‚ 2010). A woman was fired after criticizing her boss on face book (“Fired over Facebook‚” 2011). A young man was rejected for a position at Cisco because he tweeted that he had to weigh the fat paycheck against the drive and work (Popkin‚ 2009). These examples go on and on. Entire sites have been dedicated
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Individual Personal Ethics Statement Resources: Ethical Lens Inventory; Personal Ethics Statement draft; WritePointSM report; facilitator feedback Write a 350-word reflection that defines your personal ethical viewpoint. Include what you learned through the Ethical Lens Inventory: • Your preferred ethical lens • Your blind spot • Your strengths and weaknesses • Your values and the resultant behaviors Answer the following question: How might you use your personal ethics to determine
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My personal health is not the way it should be right now. When I signed up for this class I was hoping it would help me with my weaknesses. A lot of my friends go and work out mostly everyday and I always tell myself that I am going to but I never do. I have always wanted to make myself get on a routine and workout or eat healthy and lose weight. Keeping up with school‚ my job‚ and a sorority is not that easy‚ the last thing on my mind is being healthy. Sleep overrides everything in my world I love
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