College Admissions Essay: Moving Back To College

In the beginning of the school week I was so confused and frustrated because I had been out of school for year, I sort of forgot how online school works so I sat down gathered all of my thoughts and figured out what works for me such as my schedule when I’m going to do what and how I’m going to have time to do my school work, work a full time job and take care of my kids sure I knew it was going to be hard but I knew I had to get it done because this would is my last year and ill finally have my degree in criminal

Coming to college as an adult, we have many expectations and preconceptions of what college will or will not be. The expectations we have can influence our college life for the better or the worse. My experience since starting college has been an interesting one. People have misconceptions about college because they do not know what to expect. After doing some research, I have concluded that there are three major factors that are often misunderstood about college life. The first is the financial aspect of college. Second, is the relationship between the professors and students. Third is time management. These three factors play an important role in why people are afraid to go down the path to college.

So far this school year I believe things have been quite mellow, but it's still the beginning of the year and I have two less classes than previous school years, so it makes sense. However AP Computer Science is not working out, and everyone else in the class seems leagues ahead of me, and are stooping to a lower level of learning just so newbies like me can keep up. I should have seen it coming though since Mr. Daugherty's classes are fast-paced math courses and in retrospect I have never been good at mathematics. I'm thinking about switching out of the class but then I might have to find another one to switch into, and I'm aware that all the classes that interest me are full and on their way already. I'm falling behind in my college prepping although I've already looked at a few colleges that I find suitable but I need to work on my personal statements and resume and so forth.

Adult students applying to college is more common than faculty thinks. Colleges are seeing more adults returning to college to complete a degree that they began when they were younger. The adult student is working longer in life and needs to keep up with their competition which is a younger group and better-qualified. The younger employee is technical savvy and has graduated from college with new ideas to share in the workforce. The research that will be included in this paper will focus on the conceptual framework.

Returning back to school was a very natural decision for me. It seemed to be the next logical step in my personal and career goals. My ultimate goal is to be happy and healthy and be a good provider and role model. With that set aside for now, my next goal is to be financially stable and able to provide for my family in ways that my family was not able to provide for me. I definitely expect to work for what I want and earn every bit of it. The most recent motivator was that my company was willing to contribute a huge chunk of the yearly tuition, therefore removing some financial burden. This makes me feel like they truly care about my future and they really want to see me succeed.

I recently found a list of goals that I had written 20 years ago. Most of the goals were realistic and I was able to achieve them. While I was checking the items off my list that I accomplished, there was one that I have debated about for many years—returning to school to earn a degree. Returning to school has always been achievable; however, as each year of my life sped by and I got older, I always came up with more and more excuses as to why I should not return to school. One day I received a course catalog in the mail showing online classes at the college. I decide that an online class would be the first step to my future. I am so grateful for the first day of that class. All the excuses and delays regarding returning to school

I learned from my various courses that you cannot get discouraged when you know that you have a lot on your plate those are the times to rise above and to focus. Making sure everything was completed in a timely manner and to an above average standard was very important especially in my college courses. When you do not put the amount of effort needed it shows in the final product, I always want my product to look like I did my best no matter what it might be. Coming in from middle school it was easy to skate by and do everything at the last minute and still get perfect scores but now that I am being academically challenged those methods no longer work. I am very grateful for being able to have the opportunity to attend the STEM Early College at NC A&T because it is preparing me for my future

Using some simple time management skills can give the student the ability to complete tasks without feeling overwhelmed. Insufficient communication between myself and the school also crippled my studies. Over this course, I’ve learned to excel as a student the importance of new time management skills. The transition although stressful is exciting and eye opening. It's a completely different experience versus the typical college classes I was involved in when I enrolled in traditional college after high school. I will admit I am disappointed in myself this course for falling behind, being side tracked I’m unsure how far behind I’ve become. There’s one thing this has taught me and that’s discipline with my schedule because I find it's easy to get

I needed to figure out a way to balance my school work, baseball activities, and leisure time. After all, the main reason I decided to come to Concordia College was because I received a baseball scholarship and the academics here are pretty good. I got off to a bad start by leaving assignments for the last minute. I eventually realized that I needed to leave more time for doing my assignments and studying for tests/ quizzes. The professor’s here at Concordia College are very understanding and want to help you succeed. Whenever I needed an extension for an assignment, it would be granted if it’s for a good reason. Later on in the semester, I began to spend numerous hours doing work for my classes and I would end up going to sleep at 2 or 3 in the morning. After doing this for a while, it became habitual. Now even when I don’t have any work to do, I can’t fall asleep until 2 a.m. It’s a bad habit, but at least when I need to write a paper late at night I could power through

“Honey, I got laid off again” my dad told my mom when I was about ten years old. At the time though, I didn’t know what was going on, so I really didn’t think anything of it. As I got older though it started to get clearer that he didn’t have his job anymore. That’s when i started to ask question on why he doesn’t have a job anymore. But during during the ages 12 and 15 he had gotten rehired by the same company, and then they laid him off again. The second time though, it took a pretty bad toll on us financially.

I have always had a passion to become an elementary school teacher; to do this I knew I would have got to go back to college to earn my degree. As I considered returning to school, I had thoughts of how I would do this there were so many events that could go wrong including not passing my classes. In wanting to return to school as an older student and after being out of school so long I would be obliged to compete with students that were freshly graduated from high school and were at least half my age. Returning to school at this point in my life would need a great deal of time on my behalf and how was I going to do this, I have a husband who has poor health issues from serving our county, having to work two jobs not to even mention the rest of my family that needed me to. Would I have the time required to put into college to keep up acceptable grades I need to complete my degree. Some say it is hard to return to college after being out, but after I talked with some friends and family I knew I had an

Just when I thought things could get any worse in college, I finish English 1330 with an F! I have failed English 1330 because I was trying to balance 35 hours a week at work, plus be a full-time student all at once. I kept overlooking how difficult I thought it would be to balance both school and work. However, my careless attitude is what lead me to fail this course. I now have to spend more money and time to retake English 1330 because I wasn't allowing school to be my first priority. Next time when I re-take this course, I will put aside and/or lower my hours at work making me more available to be focused on my education.

It was finally Friday. The end of the week had come at last. In a few short hours, school would be over and Sabbath would be here. Eyeing my stack of homework, I inwardly sighed. My mental to-do list seemed to stretch endlessly to some unseen point in the distance. I had so many things to finish before Monday: lab reports, history journals, annotations in Prophets and Kings, and Anatomy & Physiology reading assignments with follow-up questions. There was also orchestra music to practice and a PSAT to study for. My stress levels skyrocketed as I attempted to convince myself that I could finish everything in one afternoon.

My very first day of online schooling, I had many different emotion's, happy, excited, scared, overwhelmed. Everyone has these feeling's I thought, so it helped a little bit. When I logged on to my school Connections Acadmey, I remember I had no idea were to begin, it was all so new for me. The first thing you did was ask mom for help, she said you will be fine and you will be able to get

First day in Boston, first day of orientation, first day in Boston College! As all first days are like, my first day in Boston College was chaotic, exciting, and exhausting. Still, I wanted everything to be perfect: clean dorm, cool friends, and perfect class registration. Thinking of perfection, I went up the lower common to start my orientation by getting an orientation packet. As I got my orientation packet, the professor who gave me the packet said that I have to go take a placement test for my writing class. She said that it started at 1:30. I asked her if I can take it later because it was already 1:29. She told me that I will still be not late because the door opens at 1:30, but people can start the test whenever they want. She insisted me that the ending time of test depends on the independent starting time, so I happily started walking down the vast campus. Compared with my high school, which was only a 6 story building, Boston College campus was like a castle. I had no clue where I should go, but I just walked hoping that the building called Mcguinn will come out. Well, I felt a little lost, but it was okay, I thought to myself, “everyone’s lost in their first day of school.” However, I soon realized that I had no time to get lost in the campus. Unlike what the professor with a trustworthy smile said, the placement test had a strict starting and ending time. That is, at least to my own mind, how I ended up in ELL classroom, and I hated the fact that I was in that