My College and Career Choices

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The average division 1 football player devotes 43.3 hours per week to their sport giving them 3.3 hours more than a typical American work week. With those statistics, I think it’s safe to say that being a collegiate athlete requires more than a full time job. Trying to keep up with homework and attendance in class poses many challenges especially when the NCAA requires students to miss class for championship games, televised games, or other events that bring in revenue for the school. ... ... middle of paper ... ... Business Source Premier. Web.

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Tuition increases is one of the main concerns for parents who are sending their children off to college. There have been major payment increases for every college in the past fifty to seventy-five years. Classes, semesters, years and the time it takes to get a degree have sky rocketed for every university. Most students cannot just walk out of high school and say, I have my entire college paid for there’s no sweat in slacking off and looking at university projected prices.” “However, now many, if not most, students are forced to view these costs in terms of a ‘finance model,’ which requires more planning and strategy, a longer repayment period, and the assuming of substantial debt loads Quirke (2014). Parents and students alike have to plan and strategically organize their finances to have an estimate of how long they can pay for or begin to pay for college.

Events in my life have shaped me into who I am today, and will more then likely guide me to be the person who I will turn into tomorrow. These events will allow me to discover who I am and who I want to be, and eventually they will lead me to discovering all of my goals that I want to achieve in life After high school I plan on attending Grand Rapids Community College. I choose Grand Rapid Community College not just because it was less expensive then a University, but because they offer a program for the career path that I have chosen to pursue. This particular Community College offers a three year program in training to become an Occupational Therapy Assistant. In order to pay for those three years at the college I will take on at least one part time job where I will place at least seventy five percent of my check in a bank account which will go towards college.

“A good education is a foundation for a better future.” ~ Elizabeth Warren. The reasoning behind why I want to go to college is to better my future. I am considered one of the first generation in my family to go to college, putting a lot of meaning behind why I believe I should go on to a different path. From a very young age I have always held high expectations of myself, even of the numerous changes in careers I had obtained an interest in. I have always envisioned myself going to college because I certainly value education.