After reading this excerpt of Parrish’s book, can you use this writing to explain why you want to become a student in the “Horizon” program? After reading this passage it has reinforced my decision to become a student here at Hollins University. Hollins has always provided a nurturing, positive environment in which women can learn and excel. Parallels can be drawn between the group of writers in the 60’s and the “Horizon” program of today. Both programs received support and encouragement by Hollins. To help the graduates to excel and become successful women.
The reason I feel that I want to become a student at Hollins University in the “Horizon” program is the fact that I would be a part of something bigger. Something more significant that I
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I became a hairstylist and after finishing the program I still felt that it was not exactly what I wanted to do. Although I have made this my career. It never really fulfilled the longing for something with more purpose. Although I am creative minded I felt like there was still something missing so I continued to search. I “settled” when I went in another direction entirely. Thinking I wanted to go into the medical field, I also took the easy route by becoming a certified nursing assistant and a medication aide. Both programs were certificate programs that I completed relatively easily, thinking I wanted to become a nurse but never following through with that either. So, I feel like these odd jobs and certificates have brought me to where I am right this very second. I know my whole entire life, I can remember wanting to become more making myself proud and making my parents and my daughter proud of me. While raising my child, I would always say to her “I don’t want you to end up being like me” so therefore I have instilled values in her about how important it is to have a good education. I wish I had taken my own advice. I want her to become exactly what she wants to be.
To women in the early 1900s, education was a vital investment in achieving a career and having a well-sustained lifestyle. In Sara's situation, attending college meant exploring the American culture and furthering her studies in teaching. On pages 210-213, Sara demonstrates her excitement for attending college. She states, "This was the beauty for which I had always longed for!" (211). Later into the novel, Sara reflects on her experiences while attending school. Her experience in being around people her age was a way for her to understand the American culture and know that she was now a person of reason. In effect, Sara provides an insight into her overall journey in college and life in the novel by mentioning "Now I saw them treasure chests of insight. What countless years that I had thought so black, so barren, so thwarted with want!"
Rimer’s “A Lost Moment Recaptured” (2000) provides readers with stories of women’s lives who have returned to college through Smith College’s Ada Comstock Scholars Program. These stories intertwine with evidence supporting the implied claim; the typical college student is no longer the 18 to 20 year old. Providing intimate details about the lives of these diverse women, Rimer leaves the reader admiring their triumph over gendered expectations of generations past by going back to college.
With her graduation day coming soon, her mom made sure to remind her that she will be attending college. “‘you’re going to college’ my mother told. Actually it was not so much a statement as a command- that’s the way Mami often spoke” this was stated on page 101 in paragraph. This stood out to me because it reminded me of how my own mother is, she would always tell me that I would attend college, I had no other option but to attend college if I wanted to be successful in life. I was always questioning her; I would say to myself how is college the only way to success when I would see a lot of the successful never attended school. most of my friends were working and going to school. I wanted to work and provide for myself much like Cecilia
I remember a time in my life when I would always play with little children. At that point, at the age of six or seven, I decided to become a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher. When I started high school, I started feeling stressed out because of the pressure that I was doing to myself to reach my goal of becoming a pediatrician. I could hardly focus on the topic we would have during class because I would be thinking about my future as a pediatrician. With the help of my friends, they helped me overcome the obstacles that I had. The more I thought about what profession I wanted to be, I thought about how much I loved working and dealing with computers. My friends and cousins told me that I should and can be what ever I wanted, and that helped me decide to major in computer engineering at San Jose State University. So you see when it comes down to life, dreams are not the only thing that can keep men going, friendships, pets and companionships can do the same.
To me, life is a pretty ironic thing; it has a way of introducing you to the things you want, but keeps it just out of your reach. As we grow and go through life experiences, both good and bad, we as humans always seem to take some form of realization or some truth from each experience. The difference amongst all of us is whether or not we take these truths and make something of them. Becoming a nurse isn’t a career choice I was pushed into making. I have desired to be a nurse for as long as I could remember. My perception of nursing and my desire to become a nurse directly comes from my passion to help people. I want to become a nurse because I enjoy being around people in their times of need and I get internal satisfaction by serving those that need help. Recently I decided to jump start my health care career by becoming a certified and licensed nursing assistant. I did this for one of two reasons. Besides being able to have the opportunity to see first hand what really goes on in the health care setting but to also gain the proper knowledge and experience that I’ll forever carry w...
When people are younger everyone always ask what do you want to be when you are older? Of course when it is children everyone is filled with wonder about their answer whether it’s a model, astronaut, race car driver, etc. Now that I’m older it’s expected for me to know exactly what to do with my life and how to do it. I realized very soon that I sometimes can be an indecisive person when it comes to life-long decisions. This being a huge decision in one’s life you could only imagine how many times I’ve changed my idea on what to go to school for. Although, changing my mind become a norm, I eventually decided a degree in business/marketing is the right path for me. What are my career and educational goals, what will my job would be like, and
Prior to working in my field, it seemed that I waited a very long time to be in the position I wanted to be in. When I first started working in my field I was very excited. Working as a Community support Worker, I often thought to myself that my current position would be the closest I would get to a social worker position. I was ecstatic about my achievements until I realized that I still was unsatisfied and I wanted more. When I realized my current career as a community support worker, was not enough for me I decided to advance in my field. I made the conscious decision to return back to school for my masters and obtain a master’s degree in mental health counseling. This process has been extremely rewarding and challenging. Although, I have been doing a wonderful job with my schooling, it has been very difficult to balance work, school, and family. While attending graduate school, I have been able to successfully complete my coursework and maintain quality grades however I have not been able to spend much time with my family as I would like. This transition has been extremely challenging, however it has taught me exceptional time management skills. It also has taught me how to deal with change. I am now open to change because I believe it is necessary for
...aduate career. I am eager to be a member of a learning community that challenges me academically and provides real world experiences. Harvard Law affords its students the distinct opportunity to receive a premier education while participating in a variety of hands on clinical and pro bono programs. My performance in and out of the classroom serves as evidence of my high likelihood to succeed in this type of learning environment. Harvard would greatly benefit from adding a student of my background and potential to this incoming class. I have unique life experiences that will enhance classroom conversations and mold my peers into worldly future legal professionals.
My main reason for selecting Wellesley college is the fact that provides an amazing path for women to pursue a higher education providing the necessary tools to have a successful career. I am very interested in the Davis Scholars program particularly since it offers the help to non-traditional students as myself. Understanding the needs that women with family obligations endure while trying to accomplish their dreams of a better future. In my personal experience I have always loved learning and my education was the center of my life but unfortunately that changed when I decided to leave my home country to travel to the United States of America. I had to constantly work many hours and many jobs to survive during those years. I use the word survive
Studying with the McNair Scholars Program will enable me to obtain more hand-on experiences prior to attending graduate school. Most importantly, I believe that working with peers who are highly motivated will help me in becoming more motivated and inspired to do the work I am interested in. Being the first person who attends college and living in the United States for only 4 years, I am not able to find people who can provide me advice in my family and community. Therefore, I believe that becoming a McNair Scholar will allow me to become more knowledgeable.
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.
While I still believe the course of one’s life is a result of his or her decisions, I now realize it is also a reflection of one’s character and personality. I know that within a year, I won’t simply have a degree from Methodist University to hang on my wall; as a result of this reflection, I can also appreciate why and how I ended up there.
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
Although it was to be a wonderful chance to attend college, it had appeared that the opportunity to attend college for someone at my age was not favorable. At the age of 47, what was I thinking? As a young mother of four children, attending college was something that was not in the future, it was chalked up as a missed opportunity. As an eighteen year old, when most people attend college, I married, had children and then divorced. The only options available to me was to work to support my children so that they one day would be able to attend college. As the children got older they wanted to know why I pushed so
In high school my ideal career seemed to change from day-to-day. I tried working at a fast food restaurant, and ice cream parlor, a day care, but none of these led to any career decisions. I wanted to join the military so I took the ASVAB but I was not confident enough in my ability to make it through basic training so I gave up the idea. I wanted to be an architect so I applied for admission to the CAD program at ITT Technical Institute and was accepted. I was scheduled to start classes on June 12, 1989, but deep down what I truly wanted was to a wife and mother and the idea of getting out of Rantoul, Illinois did not hurt either. My unspoken desire came to the fore when I met my future husband in January of 1989. We were married on June 10, 1989, four days after my high school graduation and two days before I w...