How Community College Changed My Life

That is how adults handle interactions, and to react defensively, I feel, is mostly a reaction based in fear.

Time management is a skill I have learned, and it is one of the reason for successfully completing my community college journey. I have always attended college full- time, worked full- time, additionally I am also an active member of Phi Theta Kappa honor society, among other extracurricular activities. Similarly, when I get enrolled into nursing school, I will bring what I have learned during my community college journey. Though flexibility is allowed, I will create a schedule and stick to it. Just like I usually do, I will set a semester goal, and work towards meeting that goal. On the other hand, I do not think working full-time will be advisable while in nursing school. Instead, I will look for a per- time job on campus or close to the

As a community college student (soon to be graduate) I feel that I have gained a new perspective on what personal growth means. Like any student with passions for a greater future I believed that by taking every experience and opportunity from community college would prepare me for the next level in my higher education. Throughout my two years of receiving high marks and becoming involved in community service projects through Phi Beta Kappa, I realized the importance of community building and setting goals. I have now become Co-President of Phi Beta Kappa and received a 3.8 GPA for my last semester which awarded me to being on the Dean’s List, and the next step I want to take is toward Rutgers.

If you were to ask anyone today, what kind of student I am, many of them would answer "hard working" or "perfectionist", however, I was never like this. In fact, I did not start becoming an overachiever until a few months ago. Flashback to high school, I was a mediocre, lazy student who was at the bottom percentile of my class. I did not like to study and I especially did not like doing my homework. So, what changed? I figured, that people only get one chance to live, so why not spend it on learning and making a career out of something you love? So after graduation, I decided to go to a community college because it would be the perfect choice for me. I soon began to start making goals for myself, 2 year and 5 year goals. I stopped slacking

These skills can help them regulate themselves well and achieve more success and live much happier lives.

Learning to value their home life, love life, family, and friendships will give them a greater sense of balance in their life and will help them to recharge their batteries. Ironically, this will ultimately help them to succeed faster in their careers because they’re able to approach work from a more positive mindset.

Once students graduate high school they still have the same mentality that someone is always going to be on their tail telling them what to do. By teaching students life skills they will be prepared for the real world and not just for the courses students plan on taking in college. Ted Talk’s “Use data to build better schools” acknowledges that sometimes education isn’t the only necessary essential “unemployed graduates on our streets, while employers say they cannot find the people with the skills they need-- degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives” (Schleicher). Most people are so caught up with the mentality that attending college will make you successful, however that is definitely a false statement. In order to become success, schools should review and educate students with valuable life skills. Consequently, there will be parents arguing that what schools should be teaching the students should be the mandatory courses and not take any of the learning time away from them. Enough time is given in class to learn the course so there will be enough time for life skills to be taught. Anaheim students must learn valuable life skills to become

When The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens was first assigned, I was unsure whether or not this book would provide any help in improving my lifestyle. After all, it appeared to be just another open ended self-help book. However as I continued reading this success guide I began to really see myself in a whole new way. Sean Covey opened my eyes to see a different way to approach my life. Each habit provided flexible methods to make a person more productive in both their educational and personal life. This book’s seven habits can be applied to anyone despite age, gender, or occupation. Julia Quinlan is an excellent example of this. Even with the tragic loss of her daughter she was able to apply the seven habits in her own way. This inspired me

Who would have ever thought that I'd be the first from my family to attend college? I never thought so because both of my parents didn't make it through high school. Going to college has always been something I have looked forward to; However, when it was around the corner I became nervous and worried because I didn't have anyone with me. I never thought that college would have a good impact on my attitude and actions today. It gave me skills that I never thought I'd have. College changed me drastically.

However, other research has shown that critical life skills can be acquired by an individual. This is from their willingness to want to change and evolve with their environment. According to Robbins (1991), this is a key in determining how successful someone will be over the course of their lives. This is based on him evaluating and studying what traits helps to make a person excel. (Robbins, 1991)

World Health Organization (1997) defines life skills as “abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life”.

Experience shows that behaviour is substantially more difficult to change and require more concentrated approach. The goal of the life skills approach is to promote healthy, sociable behaviour and to prevent or reduce risk behaviours, as well as make an impact on knowledge and attitudinal components. Like skill makes individual and group socially responsible.

Life skills can teach you how to treat people a certain way. For example, your experiences with people will let

Everything single adult is aware that the world is changing so fast. Therefore, what a person might take for granted today can improve an individual’s life in the years to come. Nobody is capable of predicting any aspect of life or how the world will be in the next five year. For that reason, life skills are very crucial to learners as it’s away from preparing them for any challenges or problems they might face later in life (Gulhane 28). Pillai (34) defines life skills as, “the capacity for the adaptive and more positive character, which enables a person to handle any demands and problems of everyday life efficiently”. There are thousands of different skills that a person can learn for example skills such as critical thinking, empathy, money managing skills, artistic skills, imaginative skills and self-awareness skills. Despite the fact of there being thousands of skills people only have no more then 3 Most young adults lack the ability to manage money, It is essential to equip everyone with these type of skills so that they can apply it in their daily lives and overcome some problems in life (Pillai 37). This paper will further elaborate on why schools should teach different life skills to their students.

Life Skills are the essential tools that help your child to succeed in life. These are the skills that you should teach your kid during their pre-school, middle school and high school and junior college. Children learn things easily by working alongside parents. The list comprised of all the skills that needs to be learnt during different stages of age. If your child is little slow in learning these skills don’t consider that your child has failed, just remember all children are different and may take years to master. All skills that are highlighted below should be taught under adult supervision.