I can reach my goals and dreams through discipline. There are many goals that I intend to fulfill. At the end of my senior year I hope to have achieved a 3.75 grade point average. If I successfully obtain a 3.75, it will ultimately make it much easier for me to get into college and further my career. I also want to obtain this just because I do not set many difficult goals for myself, so when I do, I feel that I must complete the goal successfully. I have always had the goal of becoming a Wildcat at the University of Kentucky. Nearly my entire family (on my father's side) has at some point attended the university, therefore, feel that I must attend the university as well. …show more content…
I am going to focus more on my education, classes, and spend less time with my friends so that I can focus on school. I am going to keep up with all of my assignments and watch my grades so that I can make sure my GPA does not have a chance of dropping. I will make it a point to myself to start talking to many businesses to ensure an early internship spot with a possible future workplace. There are many computer organizations that like to hire people straight out of college, so I am going to start talking to a lot of them. The payroll for most college graduates who come from an internship is typically around $75,000 a year, which is an amazing starting salary. If I discipline myself enough to take care of both my school career and my future work career, it is very possible for me to achieve my dream of making six figures a year. Discipline in life is clearly very important and it is something that I have not fully put to mind yet but I must consider that this is my last year of high school. Discipline is what is going to get me through the rest of my life and keep me off the streets, so I am going to make sure I start practicing it. I have many goals and dreams that I hope become reality in life, and these can become more likely through the practice of hard work and
I endeavor to obtain excellence in my academics; I wish to exemplify scholarship by constantly asking the whys and hows of things. I will not let a bad grade define who I am as a student or who I will become. I also want to take the most challenging classes available, not because it will look good on my college application, but because I genuinely love the concept of learning and discovering new things. Education doesn’t end after high school, so I plan to attend university, eager to attain the knowledge to better understand my world: and expand it.
It's hard for me to say where I'll be in the years to come, already my life has strayed from the path I once thought it would follow. However, that doesn't change my motivation or determination to reach and excel at my personal goals. My whole life I've endured a system that dictated what should be important to me, and while it's helped me learn the practical skills I need outside of an academic setting, I have a passion to grow further from what's expected of me, and so with much enthusiasm I look forward to attending college in which I hope to achieve more by constantly learning and expanding my personal knowledge.
Prompt: In 500 words or more, describe your collegiate experience thus far. How has this experience and the knowledge you've gained influenced what you plan to study? How have they influenced your decision to apply to St. Edward's?
I currently attend Tennessee State University as a freshman. I plan on majoring in Dental Hygiene. I am the first to graduate and attend college in my family so of course everybody has high expectations from me. My mom and dad sacrificed a lot for me to attend school and get a good education and they taught me that without education you really can’t do much with your life. I want to have a good career and a good degree so I can be successful in life. I want to make my parents happy and very proud of the young lady they have raised. My father’s dream has always been for me to major in Dental Hygiene because of how successful I can be. And my dream has always been to make my dad (my inspiration and my role model) happy. When I started off trying to decide my major I had a very hard time because I honestly didn’t know what I wanted to do. I didn’t want to choose a major that I couldn’t really do much with or find a good job with. I asked my dad for help and he told me that this major would fit me perfectly and we looked up more information about it and we looked up the salary for it too and that’s when I knew I had found my major.
The stereotypical version of the normal life of a teenager proceeding to college would include high academic standards met throughout their high school career and outstanding outside testing scores resulting in automatic entry into the institution of their choice. Many of these individuals have the support of their accomplished family members in the form of financial support. There are those who have not had the luxuries of any easy upbringing but forced to decide between a life with a college degree or full-time employment. For myself I want to have it all and to achieve that I have taken on both.
Being the first one to attend college in my family has pushed me to continue my education. Now in today’s society a college degree is so important. I want my parents to be proud of me, and be happy with my high level career after college, and that starts with my education. I also hope to be an influence on my younger brother and show him that a college education is important. He looks up to me, and I need to be a good role model for him. I truly just want to get the best education and job for myself worth and make myself happy.
During one of my rides for work at O'SNAP, I passed by a group of students gathered around in a circle on the sidewalk. After dropping off my party, I drove by them to ask if they needed a ride. They accepted, but one of the students was visibly ill. I asked if they needed assistance to get back to their dorm, but they insisted they were fine. Due to the policy of NDSP, student drivers aren't allowed to bring back students who are ill due to insurance policies. The student insisted they were fine, but was unable to maintain balance and felt light headed. There was an unopened water bottle in the vehicle I was operating and offered it to the student. The other students with the student helped me lower the student to sit on the edge of the curb.
Whom are they to tell me what I am able to or not to achieve in life. This is one example of perseverance in my life. People always tell me what they see that I can do in life and never look at the fact that I could do in life. This is my goal because I want to prove everyone wrong, including myself, that I can and will make it into my dream college. As to how I will achieve my goal, it is just a matter of fact that I should push myself through all my classes and obtain a high GPA in order to get into that college. Saying ideas are nothing until they are proven by
I’ve never had a goal of this magnitude. As I come closer to graduating, the more detrimental my consequences become to me. My more short term goals are to succeed as a student and graduate, perform more admirably during my first year of college, and to transition well into this new chapter of my life. I plan on obtaining my success through discipline. It’s important to uphold the discipline I’ve shown through high school but to be proactive in doing
My desire to achieve is what dictates how I spend my spare time. Since my freshman year I have worked a part time job trying to fund the things needed to further my education. During my Junior year I took a full time job working 30 to 35 hours a week trying to save for a college education. My involvement in my work limited the amount of extracurricular activities I could attend on a regular basis, however I managed extremely involved in my church. I spend most of my time working at my church, Calvary UPC where I am involved in church leadership and help with fundraiser planning and execution. I have been working with the church from the time I was 12. I spent most of the time running a cash register and helping set up the fundraisers. At the age of 15 I was offered a role in church leadership. I graciously accepted the offer and started a job in the media department and an usher for the church offering. While I know that the involvement in my church can not take the place of activities at school, I do believe it is responsible for teaching skills that will help me
...new classes, I soon realized what would be the biggest challenge of college: deciding on a major. Yes, I am one of those people who started college without first declaring a major. I soon heard every question, suggestion, and response regarding possible options. I even began concocting false majors to throw some people off. Large-Scale Demolition was a crowd favorite.
As long as I can remember it has been my fondest dream (and my furthest goal) to attend college. From the beginning, I knew it would be an uphill climb to gain admission into a prestigious university.
I have always wanted to make good grades but I never really set any goals but, then I realized that setting academic goals are way more important than people realize . I then started to set goals like my sophomore year of high school after I did that it really helped me focus on my future and what I wanted for myself. My goals I think pushed me so much more academically they opened my eyes a little bit more. One Goal I set was to graduate High school with a Core 40 diploma, which I did, so that is one goal down and a bunch more to go. My senior year I started applying to college but my main goal was to make into Saint Mary-of-the Woods and when I received my acceptance letter I was ecstatic. So far, I am still trying to figure out my academic goals for college but, I do know for sure that I want to succeed in every single way that I can so I can make a better future for myself. A goal that I made this year is to make the dean’s list every single time, for this I will study so hard for every test, do all of my homework, and ask questions when I have them and maybe even getting a tutor. This challenge will probably be really tough but I believe that I can do it if I put my mind to it, and I tend to be a very determined
This academic goal is important to me because I have always had people tell me that I would not be able to do something and at one point I started to believe it, but I had seen a quote by Sugar Ray Robinson that read “To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.” By reading this quote and taking in what he was saying I realized I can not spend time trying to have others believe in me especially when it comes to academic goals. I realized that me graduating from college and getting a degree needs to be a goal I want to accomplish because I believe that I can and not a goal that I want to force others to believe I can especially when they do not believe in
My journey as a student has always been focused on the path to college and success. Before I even set foot in kindergarten my mother, a college dropout, always told me that “honor roll wasn’t an option” and that I would be attending college in the future and achieving a degree. Most of the time I made these requirements. Most of the time I was awarded honor roll or had a newly edited list of colleges to attend, but sometimes life got in the way of my dreams of achieving success.