Ivory Tower Blues Reflection

My parents used their troubled backgrounds as a way to push me towards academia. “Go to school so you can become a doctor and support us,” my family would pester. I thus considered school a boring platform that people were forced to endure through in order

Education is very important to my parents and it is not just a means of obtaining a good job in the future, but it serves as a way to get respect and social standing in a world that is so heavily focused on societal and class statuses. Being the first generation to have gone onto higher education, the pressures, put on by my family, can sometimes be overwhelming. In fact, at times I think my parents are more excited and ready for me to graduate than I am, which can be quite comical.

The first reason is because I just really want to make my parents proud. I am going to be the first person in my family to attend college in the United States. This is a honor I praise highly. I don't want to disappoint my parents by not attending college because they have sacrificed a lot for me. When we first moved to the United States life was rough. My dad couldn't find a stable job and my mom struggled to adapt to life in South Carolina. As hard as it was though, my parents did their best to give the best education and childhood possible. We eventually prevailed and settle down well in South Carolina. My parents support keep me going all the way through high

To begin, my immediate family is well-educated, meaning that both of my parents received a primary education, but also went on to study and graduate from universities. I believe this factor allowed me to succeed in coming to ISU, because my parents were able to recognize the significance of their higher education and how it correlated with their careers and current lifestyle. These factors contributed to my parents instilling in me the need to receive a college education in order to have more access to future opportunities.

Personally I would say there was a number of people who motivated me to attend college. But mainly I had a great foundation at home. Although my parents did not graduate from college yet, it was expected of me to

My parents want nothing more than for me to be successful in my life. For example, they did not think that they were going to have enough money to send me and my brothers through college, so my mother decided that she was going to go back to school so she could become a successful lawyer. She did that and she finished second in her graduating class. She now has a high ranking job and my parents feel confident that they will be able to get the four of us through school somehow.

I motivated myself to attend Trident Technical College. Ever since I lost my mother I felt helpless and wanted to give up but I didn’t because I know she wanted the best for me. To me college is an important place that can lead you to a bright and successful future. People who want to be someone in life tend to move on and attend college and I am one of those persons wanting to move on and have a good future. My motivation to keep going and go to college has always been my own expectations of being able to reach success doing what I want to do in life. Going to college can open doors for me in the future that can lead me in to better things in life.

a) After hearing from Katherine Bennett, I was surprised when she mentioned that the work from university was not as difficult as teachers at secondary school proclaimed. I find this surprising because I have always been told that post-secondary work load is very overwhelming.

What motivates me to go to college,to put hard work in,day after day, and to achieve my goals in higher education is my parents and myself. Since I started elementary school my parents have always motivated me to go to college. I was always a good student, but, when I had entered seventh grade, it all changed. I really did not care about school, i have been just whatever about school period. Then it hit me again in my junior year of high school. Freshman and sophomore I was not really interested in school and didn 't think I was going to college. My parents had a talk with me and that talk changed me. They were just asking me what am I going to do with my life if I didn 't go on with school and all this other stuff that made me think really hard. I didn 't want to make my parents think that their son was a failure, they raised a failure. I changed my ways and started doing better in school and now I am currently attending Cal State University of Los Angeles. Now they are more proud than ever, me being the first one in my family to attend a university. My parents will always be my biggest motivators.

For me, the reason that why I go to the college is everyone in my senior high school does it.Most of students in Taiwan who have graduated from high school, they go to college rather than find a job. There are two reasons why I follow most of people’s footsteps to enter into college. First, I don’t truly realize what I pursue. Instead of thinking what I desire, I just has been taught to learn the knowledge of textbooks during schooldays. Second, I still have no ideas what kind of occupation is suitable for me. I consider that if I go to college, maybe I can get some ideas during four years. Therefore, I choose to continue with studying in order to figure out what I want to do in the future. In conclusion, I choose to follow most of people’s

~My Motivation~ What motivated me to pursue a college degree is work. I want to make a different in my life by helping others. I do not want opportunities to pass me by because of not having a college degree. My motivation also comes from the not being happy with my current professional work. In order for me to change my feelings about work, I must motivate myself to pursue a college degree.

Higher education is optional, but to enter a respectable career, one must continue their education in order to achieve his financial and/or personal goals. Teenagers who attend college use their extended schooling to further obtain knowledge. The primary objective of higher education is to enhance one’s abilities for his future. A student can learn from school in numerous ways, but liberal education is not a way to attract students into further and higher education. However, students can learn a lot more through experiences that have affected their personal lives. I agree with author Mike Rose’s theory that education needs are reached to obtain a higher academic level by teaching students information that can be related to their personal

Nowadays, some teenagers might think that attending a university is not that necessary anymore. People have more choices

My key points have remained that same because I have learned to read analytically, and look outside of just the words. Key points that I previously noted on were: transitions in life are never easy, profession can be a wash, rinse, and repeat. Also, college life comes with a more luxurious schedule, work is hard, time is money, and lack of attention to even the most redundant tasks can cause catastrophic injury.  With all of this, I feel that the Author tries to put emphasis on the value of an education, to put the time into projects in school, how easily things can be lost, and being inspired by witnessing the pending or possible demise

By doing what your parents want you may find your self wasting many years in college to become something you don't even enjoy being. Even though your parents are paying for you to go to college you don't need to feel as if you have to do what they want. You must do what makes you happy since its your future, as my paw paw would tell me " do a job you don't mind waking up to do" I would always refer back to that saying when deciding what I wanted to become and its because of that saying that helped me get on the path I'm on today. Another Pressure that I believe to be important is Peer pressure, Peer pressure is probably the most well known pressure since you have heard it early on in your life. When I was reading I found something that Zinsser said very interesting he said "I wish they would sometimes forget about their peers and go to a movie" when I read that I was rather shocked since most adults would rather us study then go and have times to our selves but I think that's the exact point that Zinsser was trying to make. I believe he was trying to say that even though studying is good you must not compare yourself to other and have time to yourself because all that studying and comparing could hurt you later