Concordia College Student Analysis

As a student who has participated in high school sports and taken multiple AP and honors level classes, I know the challenges that accompany the standard school schedule. Practices and games for the basketball team took up over three hours of my time six days every week. During school days, I had to leave my fifth period early when I had games, taking away from my valuable learning time. This forced me to try to learn the material that I had missed during the time I was participating in an event that allowed me to represent my school district. This, accompanied by the homework of all my classes, led to my loss of sleep. During my freshman year, I went to bed around 12 A.M. every night and woke up at 6:30 A.M. the next day, allowing me three

I spent six years on studying in the United Stated, and I am finally earning my first degree in August. I started my college in Philadelphia in 2009, and I transferred to the Palomar College in 2010. I majored in per-nursing and spent three years on studying in the Palomar College. I completed fail my freshman year and my GPA was 1.7. However, I improved myself and gain 3.95 GPA in the Palomar College. I was very proud of myself about my achievement and believed that I will definitely get into the nursing program in CSUSM. I transferred to Cal State San Marcos in 2013; however, I was rejected by the nursing school. Therefore, I had to switch my major to kinesiology, which I knew nothing about. I was very depressed when I first started my

51 participants - some of which were undergraduate students attending Concordia College, currently enrolled in an introductory psychology course - completed an online questionnaire that measured both extraversion and conscientiousness. They rated these two traits in both themselves and their oldest or youngest sibling, depending on which they identify as. Youngest children rated the firstborns in their family, and firstborns rated the last borns. Our participants needed to either be the firstborn or the last born in order for us to eliminate as much error as possible. Our participants were either students from ages 18-22 or adults no older than 50, and we surveyed both males and females.

As you may already know, or will learn as I continue to post here, I am immensely proud to be a member of the Pace University community. I recently wrote about how honored I was to speak at the commencement for the class of 2015. Since earning both of my degrees in the ‘80s at Pace, I’ve always felt compelled to give back to the institution that gave me so much. Be it serving as an Adjunct Professor, Executive in Residence and/or a Lecturer in Residence, it is important to educate the young members of the Pace community just like I received at their age.

A recent difficult situation that I found myself in was in the beginning of my first semester at Beloit College. The transition from high school to college was intense and difficult for me. In order to adjust to the new environment I had to let go of my lifestyle outside of campus, therefore I had to set boundaries with my friends that currently attend high school. I wanted to feel comfortable in my new environment, learn more about the people and the campus itself. I felt as if stepping off of campus more often and only hanging out with the people that I already knew hindered me from growing. In order to not offend my friends I began to get more envolved on campus. Eventually my friends picked up the idea that I had other responsibilities

It was the first month of my high school years, I was as nervous as an incoming freshman could be. I had no idea how long and strenuous my years at Bensalem High School would feel. As many others, I had a hard time adjusting to the transition from middle school to high school. Unlike others, though, I struggled about twenty

In my junior year, I started baseball all over again. My first task was building my body. I went to the gym every day after school and strengthened by shoulder muscles. I also bought a net and placed it in my yard to practice breaking balls. Because I knew that I couldn't compete with my teammates with my relatively slow fastballs, I decided to pitch curve as my new specialty and threw fifty curves every day. I also started batting in order to cover for my weakness as a pitcher. I practiced batting using a pitching machine every day until dusk.

I am interested in providing essay feedback for College Prep Scholars because I firmly believe that the personal statement is one of the most important and crucial aspects of a prospective student's application. The personal statement is a tabula rasa, or a blank slate, in which the student can redefine themselves not in terms numbers, breaking the metaphorical chains of standardized test scores, grade point average, and class rank that serve to define the student as only a number.

Being a high school student has never been easy. There are expectations to receive exceptional grades, be involved in many activities, and keep a part-time job. Surviving in high school requires many skills and qualities to make your time easier. Work ethic, perseverance, patience, and responsibility, are characteristics I feel I possess as a high school student and future college student.

Attending college has always been by a dream of mine. Due to the fact that I have always showed academic excellence in school, I have been nominated for many different organizations and awards. Some of those were the People to People by the Student Ambassador Programs (2013 and 2014), the National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists Award of Excellence (2013), and the National Youth Leadership Council (2011). Although I offered amazing opportunities through these organizations, I was never able to attend any of them because my mother could not afford to send. My parents have been separated and/or legally divorced for the majority of my life. My mother has custody of me and I have always lived with her. My mother, LaShonda, is

A time that affected my outlook on life was when I was nominated as a Student of the Year Candidate for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. I was able to run a 7 week campaign against other students to raise money for blood cancer. I looked at this opportunity as a way to raise money for a horrible disease. I never realized how much it would impact me and that I had an opportunity to bring awareness to my community. Ultimately I was able to raise over $27,000.00 in just 7 weeks by bringing my community together, from working with the local baseball league, to fundraising at a popular pizza parlor, hosting events and including my high school classmates and staff. I have learned to speak publicly and be an active participant in my community. I

Time management is everything for me and without it I would be a complete mess. On the hard nights, it is struggle to stay awake at night as I do my homework but realize that this will benefit me by preparing me for college. When I was transitioning over from 10th to 11th grade I was offered several options as far as classes varying from the most rigorous schedule offered at my school to a path of less resistance. The most challenging classes in my school are within the International Baccalaureate program or IB for short. Many doubts clouded my thoughts at first as I started to believe that it might not be possible for me due to my schedule. At the same time many of peers believed that I didn't need to do it because of my sport and that also took a toll on me. When it came time for me to decide I began to remember all the days I stayed up doing projects and papers knowing that I would have to wake up early the next day. I knew that not continuing to challenge myself academically would only hurt me in the long run and so I was determined to prove my peers and my own doubts

On August 16th, my parents helped me move into my dorm. I moved into Samuella V. Totty Hall with my roommate Jazmine. We both discovered that we had the same name, just spelled differently. We transferred information and got to know each other better. Later on that day we went scavenging hunting to find the building our classes were in. I knew my mother and father were very proud of me, but I knew I had to further my education and keep going to reach the top! My first day of classes was very different from what I thought it would be. In high school I had 15 minutes to get to my classes. I took all seven classes Monday through Friday all in one building. All of my classes were at least an hour and thirty minutes long. In college, we have 10

Thomas Edison said “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time”. Throughout the spring semester, I endured any adversities. The courses were more rigorousness, the workload was heavy and I realized that most of the teaching to be done outside the classroom. I encountered failure for the first time this semester. But in this semester, I have learned more about myself than I had my entire life and it was through my failures.

¨Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time¨ - Thomas A. Edison. My junior year began on August 24, 2016, the year I was most nervous about since students talked to me from left and right telling me junior year was going to be the death of me due to all the standardized tests. My first few months were fairly tough since I was getting used to all the hours of homework spent of my Ap assignment, which consisted of Ap Biology, Ap Language and composition and Ap Spanish Language and a few assignments of my other classes which were AVID, US History, and Algebra 2 Honors. Few nights I would sleep at around 3:00 am and would wake up at 7:00 am, a four hour sleep which would eventually be shown through my huge eye bags and dreary eyes. Due to the on going reenactments of this nights, nights after night I began to feel as if I was becoming Ap Frank, from Overachieving Students. Eventually when I realized how important it is to time manage and have my priorities set one would believe I would fix my schedule, but I didn’t. Although I was tired of being drained throughout the whole day it seemed as if I couldn’t give up my so called four hour nap, which would set me back quite of few hours which I would generally start my homework around 7pm. My mother would scold at me at 11pm when I was frustrated with the piles of homework stating if I were to take shorter “naps” I wouldn't be so irritated. Sadly this went through my