What do I live for? This casual question was just thrown out to me in class. The expectations were that I’d know how to write a page full of my passions, in an expository style. And if I’m being completely honest, I dodged it for as long as I could so I wouldn’t have to face the fact that I don’t believe I have anything worthy enough. But for the school that is not an acceptable answer, the teachers will say there must be something you care about and although that’s true I wouldn’t say it’s anything that would rather die than live without. So then like many others, I asked myself if I wanted to “just make it up”, the advice of many peers. But I feel as though the emotion in that would be fake and would be almost cheating. So I asked myself …show more content…
This is the deeper question I never wanted to confront in the first place from fear of the unknown, and I came up with the following. My life revolves around school before I was in kindergarten I didn't go to preschool but I saw my older brother would come home with homework and I would cry because I didn't get homework and I wanted it. 2 years later I was in school I've been in school for 12 years now no 13 I don't know. I work to afford University I do homework every night until midnight to achieve the 90s. I'm told if I don't get these grades and I don't get this money I have no chance. So I join robotics to maybe get a scholarship to help me out or at least next time students to Waterloo because the program is viewed so highly. Everything I do is for school that go through the motions day and day I don't have time for anything else in my life in the summer I do math at least for an hour every day I have been doing this past few years I read to keep up my English vocabulary because it's something I have to work on twice as long and anybody else since it does not come to me naturally. However, there is one thing in my life that I enjoyed that I think I could have called my passion if I didn't have to quit it for school, and that would be
My high school is completely project-based. We've designed restaurants, traveled to Mars, redone the trials of Exxon-Valdez and Bhopal, and had our own Olympics. All of our academic subjects integrate into the projects. In 11th grade, second trimester, the assignment was to build and maintain a utopian society on Mars. As part of the project, I was asked to define the value system of my group's utopia by ranking the importance of ten qualities that make a successful city, including health care, pollution, transportation, education, housing, entertainment, and others. I wondered how I would even begin.
The life I have had so far has taught me a lot about academic and life skills; from when I was about six to the age I am now. I am always learning and happy to learn new things. I might not know what I want right now, but I do know that I want something for my life; I want to go to college, so I could make the future I see happen. As you 're reading this you 're probably asking yourself why? Why does going and graduating college mean so much to her? What makes her different from all the others? Well, to answer all those questions you would have to continue reading as I explain some of the moments in my life, in which they brought me to the conclusion that I have to go to college.
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.
Given away by my name, I am not an American; I was born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam - a dynamic city with over nine million people squeezed into roughly the size of south Bay Area. It was towards the end of my third year of high school that my family immigrated to the U.S. Leaving my hometown behind, at seventeen, I started a new chapter of my life.
Throughout the years, I hardly believed in my capabilities in school and in achieving my ambitions. You see I am not one of those cool kids who blatantly don’t want to do anything, in fact, I was worse. When opportunities decides to knock on my doorstep, I simply decline hoping that luck doesn’t go my way. It is because I was afraid to change my status which I was already comfortable with my life. Now that I am more educated I’m seeing a different point of view, a different view of living, which is achieving great things in life and surpassing anything that may come my way. In my path towards a higher education I have passed obstacles such as injury, problems with self-esteem, and transportation.
Some life lessons are better to be learned at an early stage at life and for my situation it’s good that I did. I learned that one should never depend on others when it comes to doing your own work. You have to work hard to get what you want, you can’t just wait for others to do it for you. This is one of the toughest lessons I learned and it’s good that I learned it. Although, it was tough for me the way I learned it.
The Ultimate Career Goal: I am extremely passionate about marine and wildlife ecosystems and all their inhabitants and have a desire to work in a career that allows me to work closely within these ecosystems as well as allowing myself to educate those that surround me about the importance of science. My ultimate career goal is to work as a laboratory and field technician for a reputable company or organisation.
Throughout high school and during my undergraduate studies, education was never a top priority for me. Only during the past two years, in the "real world", have I realized the importance of education. I look back at those years and wish I had done more and realized all the potential I had in my hands and not wasted so much time. During my undergraduate career my social activities consumed my life. My friends were not motivated to do well in school so I followed their lead. My grades were low, and I did not even care. After I graduated in 1997 with a Psychology B.A. and lost touch with my old friends and old ways, I have realized that I should have spent more time doing some soul searching and thinking what it was that I wanted to do with my life. I liked Psychology but what I really wanted to do was work with children more closely. I had spent my junior and senior years involved in internships at Head Start and at a High School in a Program for teenaged mothers. I loved my work there. At Head Start I was a Teacher Aid for the pre-school, teaching the children to read, numbers etc. And at the High School I counseled the teenaged mothers, took care of their kids while they went to school and after the school day I tutored them with their homework. After being out of school for a while, I started to miss that. The feeling that I was teaching something those kids, the feeling that I was making a difference. I was determined to find a job in education, with my background in Psychology, how hard could it be? I found work at a residential school for runaways and abused teenaged females. It was great! I was ready to go, I was going to change the world and change those girls lives. What I didn't realize is that will alone does not make me a teacher and that I needed training, a lot of training. I made a lot of mistakes in that job. I got discouraged and decided to forget about working with children, forget teaching and do something else that paid more. So, I got a job as a Secretary, I did that for about two years. Teaching, working with children was always on my mind.
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.
As a kid I had always like to play with the dirt in the ground and move it around with my Tonka truck. I would fill the bed of the Tonka truck with rocks\ dirt, and grass with my Tonka bull dozer. Then I would move the dirt,rocks, and grass into a pile and it was the best thing to do in my back yard as a kid. Have I ever wondered what I were going to do with my life after high school, like how was I going to support your family if I were going to have one or how to support myself when I on my own. I have so I searched for jobs that interested me and has a very good pay. The job I found was to be a heavy equipment operator. This is the job that I found interest in that had a good pay. How I
I come from a long line of hardworking Mexican-Americans who taught us to be industrious in everything we do. My grandparents moved to El Paso, TX from Mexico when they were both young adults. Prior to coming into the United States they both wanted to head to California, so Texas was just a temporary stop for them. My story starts off in San Jose, CA, as a young problematic child who ended up turning his life around for the better. Throughout my life I have had to overcome numerous difficulties that impacted me tremendously, whether they were good or bad. I was the troublemaker out of my siblings; who was constantly being an inconvenience in the classroom or at home. It is not that I was always looking to cause problems, as an adolescent I was very
What makes one life greater than the other? Must I be president of the United States of America, the King of England, a police officer, a mom or dad, or an athlete like Lebron James? Indeed, all these people have an important job to do. One is not greater than the other -each and every one of these people have a special place in this world given to them. So what is my place in this world?
Some may wonder, “what is life?” This basic knowledge on the definition of life is needed to set a price on it. Life is defined as the sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Does money, a physical object, really put an accurate value on a conceptual idea? To others life is more than a concept. To me, life contains all my personal senses, experiences, and emotions - things money cannot buy.
It has taken a very long time for me to decide on the path that I wanted to take for my career. I have almost always known that I wanted to be an engineer. I was always more interested in applying my knowledge to solve problems rather than just research and understand the world. However, I had little to no inkling as to which field of engineering I wanted to go in to. I had always been a dabbler, involving myself in a large variety of activities with the interest of learning about how stuff works. I started out learning how to use the tools in the shed outback, making pinewood derby cars and model rockets. I would help my dad with home improvement and repair projects around the house. As time went on, my ability learns and apply
Throughout my life, I’ve always had big dreams and goals set for my life just like everyone else. I would constantly daydream and picture myself fulfilling my dreams. But, when the time came to actually plan out how I was going to reach my goal, I couldn’t figure out which path would lead me to my desired future. Every option I would contemplate on doing and try would somehow fail and crumble before my very eyes. After several attempts, I began to question if I was even good enough or qualified enough to go to college. To me, it seemed like the people who had a chance to make it in life were the ones with resourceful parents or the students who were in I.B or in numerous A.P courses. The possibilities of a little Hispanic girl like myself,