Graduation Speech : College Education

Every fall, millions of students return to school to learn about math and science, English and history, every weekday until summer finally returns. Year after year, the same fundamental classes return and, time after time, seem to faintly impact the students. Schools have been designed so you learn the same information, slightly more in depth, from kindergarten to senior year. What about topics that would further the student in their future after graduation? Schools emphasize the same core subjects throughout the years, but not the real life obstacles millions of millions of people face. What if schools required classes on survival, job interviewing skills, studying, how to pass the SAT- all classes which would further students in their

Hi Ms.Barks, I am not sure if you remember me ( EAP 121,Winter 2015),just want to tell you I am done with ENG 101 and to thank you for the permit!!! It was very interesting expirience ( Bixby was my teacher),however I passed and moving on.This is my last quarter in Edcc , I am taking summer off and will be attending Shoreline community college this fall.Again,I just wanted to thank you for being supportive of me and allowing me to get closer to my goal!!!. I was very fortunate to have you as my teacher!!! Have a great summer!!!

A college education will allows me to enhance my knowledge on things, by intensifying my knowledge it will allow me to share, what I know , with the world, sharing what I know with the world will lead to me starting a career providing others with the education that I received from college , a career will allow me to get paid, having money will provide me with the resources I need to live and survive.So in a nut shell a college education means a great deal to me because with out it I wouldn't be able to elevate my education to lean new things and bring new ideas into the

I always expected to feel differently when applying for college, and especially when getting accepted. But it did not go quite how I had always pictured. I had been out of school and working, and started to lose the urgency or desire to leave for college right away. I was not ready to leave home and all my loved ones and so I slacked on keeping up with all the college stuff like I should have been doing. One day I finally applied to the only place I set my sights on, not really expecting much. And to my surprise, I was accepted. There, everything changed.

In the years of 2012-2013, Oklahoma 's percent of students graduating with a high school diploma was 84.8%. In 2012-2013, the graduation rate was at one of the highest points it has ever been at. It is crazy to think that over 1.2 million students drop out every year just in the United States. That is a student ever 26 seconds or you could think of it like 7,000 students a day. A student that gets a high school diploma but does not go to college is going to be doing better than students that drop out. The majority of jobs will not hire you if you don 't simply have a high school diploma. The income of college degrees, what work expects from people, and how it all relates to high school is important in todays society.

By taking the first step and acquiring a college education I am beginning the next necessary phase towards a rewarding future. This process is indispensable in providing a means to a lucrative future for me, or anybody for that matter, who is determined to stay focused and complete the work required. By choosing to continue on to four year degree, my college education will provide me with many opportunities and clear the path towards financial security, independence and self satisfaction upon completion. I am experiencing a greater understanding about my marketable skills while I assemble a noteworthy resume. Because of the experiences I have received in college so far, I have gained a competitive advantage in the labor market. Do to the assorted experiences, classes and instructors I have had the opportunity to interacted with in college, I am prepared to work in any environment whether it is customer service in a credit union, to bartending, as well as training staff for a restaurant while I finish up my education. My college years, so far, has provided me a unique opportunity to engage in areas which I would never entertained an interest in before. At present, a college education is paramount to procuring a position in many industries. I have noticed, in many instances, a degree from college is a minimum requirement for most employment opportunities.

College degrees are becoming more common to enter into jobs in the times that we live in now. I know first-hand being a student that a college degree can help me earn more money. I decided to come back to school after graduating high school a little more than 6 years ago. I went out and got a job, more like a few jobs, before I decided that I was better than minimum wage and that the amount of stress I was taking on just was not worth what I was getting paid. I knew I could do better and that I indeed wanted better for myself. Going to college you take classes that teach you skills that you need in the working world, you learn to apply those skills, and after completing a degree you are on you way to high wages. One thing is certain, College provides a better career opportunity for students, regardless of major.

As a senior in high school, at Lincoln Academy, I plan to attend the University of Maine at Farmington for a 4-year bachelor 's degree in elementary education with a minor in psychology. I chose the University of Maine at Farmington because I want to be a teacher and as most people know Farmington offers an amazing education program. After college I want to join the Peace Corps and teach in other countries around the world.

After graduating high school, several students decide to go off to college while many others find want to take a break from school, then continue later on. Sometimes, there are people that have entity approach intelligence where they believe that college is not for them and therefore find something else to do, so they look for jobs and decide to work. They believe that if they try to get into this new environment, they will not even achieve anything; therefore, they do not even want to try. Some of them cannot go because of financial reasons. Once they start going, they drop out because their savings are depleted. Because financial reasons is considered as one of the factors that triggers a lot of people to drop out of school, I believe that there should be a reduction in the cost of college.

College students have two choices when it comes to spring break, either go home or to go on a wild vacation with their friends. I recently had to make a similar choice between going to Destin, Florida, which includes partying with my friends or going home to Chicago, Illinois to rest. In order to make a decision it was best to compare and contrast my two choices.

Five years ago, I was just an outgoing, blonde, bucktooth, oddly proportioned, junior-high student-athlete that always told myself my only real job would be to find a rich husband that would take me on tropical vacations each year and never have to work a day in my life. When teachers often asked us what we wanted to be I was quickest to have an answer, “a trophy wife” is what I would shamelessly say. As soon as that phase paced, I knew I had to start seeking and setting some realistic goals for myself but wasn’t sure how to start. I knew I needed to go to college, but I wasn 't positive what I wanted to pursue until this year. College is a huge goal for me knowing that I grew up in a financially struggling house. Now that I know what I

When considering to take a job before or instead of going to college you should think of the almost 40 thousand dollar per year pay difference that a college graduate and a high school drop out have. When you join the workforce right out of high school or instead of high school you essentially cut off any of the connections you can make through college because not only is college a source of knowledge is a source of connections. Throughout college you have experiences and classes that prepare you for the rest of your life and the career path you want to follow this is something major you might miss out on if you go straight into the workforce. Not only do you miss out on all of these experiences and connections education is a major part of everyones it effects who we are and it is something we continue to experience even after college. With all of this being said I believe that no matter what you are going to be better off in life if you focus on your education and finding yourself before entering the workforce full force.

Ahhhhh finally “College Life” has arrived. No more stress, less work, later classes, time to just sit back and relax. “Going to school will be easy” as some say. Well those that think that are setting themselves up for failure. “1 in 3 first-year students won’t make it back for sophomore year” and one of the mains is because of “academic struggles” (U.S. News). The ‘College Life” is not all that it is cut out to be. With new surroundings, unfamiliar faces, and new professors some first-time students tend to struggle getting through the first semester. Mrs. Amy Fox’s is one of the hardest classes Elizabethtown Community & Technical College has to over. This is an English 101 class that is mandatory for all students towards a degree. Though she is not the only professor teaching English 101, many students take her class and some say it can be pretty challenging. Mrs. Fox’s class is hard because students must adjust to two teachers, the amount of work given, and the hybrid Fridays.

All throughout high school, teachers would tell us we have to be prepared for college, or our occupation after we completed all of our schooling, but to me all they did was prepare us for exams. The education system in our generation is based off standardized testing, or teaching us how to take a test. This practice of learning only to fulfill a specific testing requirement or to reach a TEKS objective has been gradually causing a decline of the education system. What I mean by this is that education is supposed to help us and assist in advancing us or at least make it easier for us to become successful in our life span, however it feels like the system is doing the complete opposite. In classes today, professors come to class with a book and a couple of presentation slides in hopes that it’ll help to jam information in our heads that we will somehow manage to temporarily retain for the upcoming exam. The irony is that immediately after we take the exam the information is likely to disappear, which is not conducive when you consider that the purpose of college is to educate us in preparation for life. Our brains can only absorb a certain amount of information, so why would we want to receive information that we would only need for a test and not information that we will need for our futures and the real world. If professors encourage college students to focus more on preparing for our post-college careers instead of standardized tests, then I wholeheartedly believe that the

Five years ago, I graduated from High school in Cartagena, Colombia. I almost did not pass my last year of school because my academic grade was not superior, especially in languages which I had to retake. In addition, I was not clear about my future, and it looked very hard to determine what career would be benefit for me. Moreover, my parents worked hard and in many circumstances they limited the basic need for the home or for themselves in order to pay me a high education level. I was in pressure for my family because they were expecting a great career and job for me, and I was not showing a good academic standard. Even more, I was expecting a important and completely change in my life, I was moving to another country, United State of America. Now, I was more concern about my future education. If I could not demonstrate an excellent or academic performance in Spanish, how it could be better in other language. However, my perspective in education seem more optimistic since I was part of Polk State College through the change of my mind and behavior, the support of the Community College, and the programs which offer many benefits to those students who one to overcome.