Thank you for taking time to talk with me Friday. It was a pleasure meeting you both and I really appreciate your guidance. While I shared some details Friday, I hope to give a little context by providing some of my history. During the fall 2011 semester at Montgomery College I enrolled in a heavy course load without consulting my advisor, hoping I could expedite my time at the college. I naively mistook asking for help as a sign of weakness. As a result, I quickly fell behind. The semesters that followed were desperate attempts to recover lost time. Shortly thereafter, my wife accepted an exciting opportunity in Northern Virginia in the spring of 2013. We relocated to Virginia where I continued my studies at Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC). Still determined to get back on track, I ended up overextended while making necessary renovations to make our newly purchased 1906 farm house habitable. (We bought what our budget allowed and if you’ve ever seen the movie The Money Pit, you understand the situation). …show more content…
It felt my plans were falling into place and I thought the setbacks were behind me. In March 2015, however, I discovered several of my courses from Montgomery College would not satisfy NVCC’s degree program. This was contrary to the Veteran Affairs’ advisor’s evaluation when I enrolled with the college. I inquired repeatedly with student services to get this rectified especially given the course curriculum was identical, but unfortunately nothing could be done. Needless to say, I was completely
The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the GI Bill of Rights (GI Bill), was signed into law on June 22, 1944, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (United States Department of Veterans Affairs, 2012). It was a pivotal point in history, which has impacted the United States socially, economically and politically. Today, educational benefits are primary tools used to recruit service members. In 2007-2008, about 4 percent of all undergraduates and about 4 percent of all graduate students were veterans or military service members (Radford, 2011). Furthermore, the recent expansions in benefits increase the use of education benefits by veterans will grow almost 5 percent (Simon, Negrusa, & Warner, 2009). To improve the success in higher education, veterans must ensure they keep updated on current educational assistance programs as well as other educational services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and their institutions.
In college students must learn how to manage their time, organize their schedule that meets their college and personal duties, how to be resourceful, and how to interact with people whom they never met. Before college, a variety of students already learned how to accomplish these skills, but only a few of these students are fully responsible for themselves before leaving their home. Students who are dependent are most likely to have been helped by their parents who took an overprotective or extreme interest in the life of their children. Many students do not get the help they need to become independent and being overwhelmed may lead a student to commit suicide, fail, or even drop out during college. If a student fails, his or her self-esteem can be permanently damage, and the consequences can effect an entire lifetime. Students must receive more helped by college administrators and professors and influence them to self-mange better. It is understandable that some people do not want colleges to help more because they want the students to do mista...
The Serviceman’s Readjustment Act of 1944, better known as the G.I. Bill, was created to “provide a short-term measure by which the federal government could mitigate the pressure of hundreds of thousands of returning war veterans becoming job seekers in a saturated national market” (Schuh, J. H., Jones, S. R., Harper, S. R., & Associates, 2011, p. 13). Post-secondary education had become the stepping stone for veterans to assimilate back into civilian life. The unexpected success of the program brought about the needs for academic integrity. Schools had to meet certain expectations to be included in the G.I. Bill scholarship program. Post-secondary institutions hungry for the influx of federal money began to construct their programming to meet the needs of the veteran students. They continue to adjust their programs to maintain alignment with the evolvement of the G....
I feel as though the best way to adapt to the harsh reality of a personal problem is being vocal about it, which can later help someone realize that it may not have been much of a personal problem after all. One issue facing college students around the world is the fact that many of them derive from households and families lacking any college alumni; therefore, making them first-generation college students. The difficulties that come along with attaching this moniker to students include tedious things such as spending countless, mind-bending hours spent on Google searching for what school best suits one’s needs, or needing to delve a little deeper into websites regarding what differentiates an independent student from a dependent one. Minor annoyances such as these can grow into even more vexed issues such as having to depend on a counselor’s often faulty information to help construct a student’s schedule, making things like scouring the web sound rather minuscule in comparison. I heard about issues like this before I went to college, but I didn’t believe it; nowadays, there are moments where I’m sitting in class and end up asking myself, “Should I even be here?”
Around mid-July 2012, I received notification of my selection to attend the CGSC resident course. My tentative report date to Fort Leavenworth Kansas was 4 January 2013 according to the Request for Orders (RFO) email that I received from my branch. Although I had high aspirations of attending CGSC, the timing of this move was not the way I had personally planned the next couple of years of my military career. I had just took command in May of 2012 of the Ranger Support Company (RSC) of 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, a position that I had worked very hard to obtain. Additional, I was preparing for a combat deployment as commander of the RSC. Having previously deploying twice with the 3rd Ranger Battalion in a staff position, this depl...
I hope that you can see my education and future are advancing as we speak. This doesn’t mean I haven’t had a few bumps in the road, because I have. Actually, some of the bumps have unfortunately been financial aid. But, I am growing. It is a day to day continual experience of growth and it’s exciting for me to see where it takes me. Again, thank you for this opportunity and all the work you do as an organization.
When I moved to New Hampshire, I worked full time at Plymouth State College and took night courses towards a BSN for one and a half years. I postponed my education for eight years while I was a wife and mother. After divorcing, I returned to P.S.C. to continue taking courses leading towards a BSN to help support my children and myself in a career that allows me to contribute to my community. Currently, I am attending Claremont School of Nursing full time, working towards completing an Associate RN Degree.
College students have to balance work, family, and college activists and any delaying behavior from within can cause an unbalance. This behavior is called procrastinating and it can lead to problems in many areas of a student’s life. College students are the worst hit by this type of behavior because they have many different activities to focus on instead of studying. These activities can cause students to study when they have time which often is usually too short amount of time. There is a time and place to relax and enjoy life, but if students focus on playing around instead of getting their assignments done, college life will be stressful.
In 2002, I enrolled at Hudson Valley Community College and stopped attending classes roughly a month into the first semester with no intention to return. This resulted in an unofficial withdrawal and, unknowingly, an academic suspension placed on my permanent transcript. Two years later I made another attempt to continue my education at ITT Technical Institute. I completed multiple semesters but was unsatisfied with the overall quality of the education and stopped attending.
I got my stuff together and started to turn in my work and excel in school. I am currently a senior at Sandhoke and I am at Sandhills Community College working on my associates
Good Morning, Sorry for the late reply, I was with wife all the time, couldn’t write a nice letter. First of all I would like to start by writing about regarding to your earlier mail. I am happy to read that you are positive about continuing our friendship. I will be more careful and responsible for the people who really cares about me.
My first semester at Michigan State University was filled with many challenges that have made me a better student. It tested my ability to work under pressure, as well as encouraging me to properly plan out a healthy work schedule. Most importantly, it put the responsibility solely on my shoulders. Not only did this require me to stay on top of my work, but it encouraged me to find value in the work I was doing. All of this allowed me to look back at the semester and see drastic changes in my abilities. This was especially noticeable in my writing course, a subject that I have struggled with my whole life. Throughout the semester, with the proper resources, I was becoming an experienced writer, and learned many skills that I struggled with in the past.
Your letter dated 20 October 2016 reached me and the content well understood. Thank you dear for your letter and for all you shared with me. I was thrilled reading from you after very long time. My I recap the content of your letter to be certain I understood what you shared.
After only being at The University of Akron for three weeks, I dropped two classes. Shortly after dropping those classes, I received an email from my advisor asking to schedule an appointment. While in my academic advisors office, she proceeded to tell me that most students who drop two or more classes tend to not graduate. These words frightened me and even made me regret the decision to attend college as a whole. I sat there and thought about how disappointed my family would be and wondered if I would be successful in college. Since then, I have learned that there is a lot more to being successful
Throughout my experience in the link I have learned to appreciate any help I received. When I entered College for the first time, I wanted to know how it feels to have to think critically, and to be an independent student. I wanted to know what the true meaning of “working hard” actually meant. In high school I passed without attending my classes, but I knew it won’t be the same in college. I was ready to challenge myself to be on top of my game and get straight A’s. Now that the semester has ended I have realized the challenge to get straight A’s was a lot harder than I thought. I wasn’t used to not receiving a great deal of help when I needed it, I thought being independent and thinking for my-self would be trouble-free. However, college has taught me to grow up, and to stop comparing college to high school.