My Experience An Experience

To make sure that students get to know everyone, I will ask students at the beginning of activities to talk to at least three people that they don’t know. To also help with this I will ask students at activities to form a group

In American society, higher education has become the standard and all over the country young people are being told just how important and necessary this extended learning is. The question is: why? Mark Edmundson, author of “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?”, tackles this question with full-force in his essay about making the most of your college learning. Within the essay, Edmundson’s purpose is to inspire a new way of thinking for students just beginning their college education. He gives the readers a personal account of self-discovery amidst the depravity of academics, and emphasizes that this is one of the most important parts of the college experience.

I have been infatuated by the medical field for a very long time. It all started in the eighth grade when I was admitted to the hospital for what was believed to be meningitis. That was my very first time in a hospital, and I had a very unique experience. After a nurse checked my vitals, the doctor came into my room with a needle and explained what a spinal tap was. He told me that he would insert the needle between the fourth and fifth vertebrae in my spinal cord to extract five milliliters of cerebrospinal fluid.

Sick and tired of not knowing why the majority of college students gravitate to earlier classes? Let’s just say these “Speedy Gonzales’s” with coffee in hand, who are early to bed and early to rise, can give any college student a new perspective. After a thorough investigation, I was informed on the luxury of having a good sleep and breakfast, a quieter campus, and smaller classes with the rest of the day to do as you please and missing the fully rested beauty sleepers ready for a gossip fest.

The modern techniques in water desalination include nuclear cleaning, change of state distillation, and reverse osmosis. This paper focuses on the most energy efficient technology available for each method, as this diminishes cost.

For many, their first semester in college is characterized by the excitement of leaving home for the first time, collegiate activities, and a small amount of academically induced stress. To the well prepared—the people who worked hard, and had the intelligence, to do will in high school—the first semester of college is just a review concepts already mastered. My story is different.

One of my personal experiences that I had was when my family decided to move from New Jersey to Florida. I never planned on moving with them but my mother basically forced me into moving with them. It wasn’t really all that moving stuff because the new house was actually pretty nice, it was just I had all my friends there and I was doing well in school. Nothing I said convinced my mother so after a week of packing we was off to Florida. The first week being there was a horrible week. Nothing was going right for me, I missed the school bus for a whole week, dropped my milk on my new shoes, and tripped over nothing in lunch. It was just trying to move back but parents always have this life lesson speech about trying to make new friends and try to get used to being here until we move again. It’s been about a month since we moved to Florida and I met about zero friends but I got used to living here since I’ve found something that interested me as an after school hobby and that was fishing. There’s barley any lakes or ponds in New Jersey so fishing wasn’t really something you do as a time waster. I usually fished right after I got home but on that day it was rainy and it wasn’t really a good time to fish so I just decided to practice my free shots until it started raining hard. I think I was outside for about 20minutes and suddenly a couple kids from my new school asked if they can shoot

Action Plan Achieving my personal leadership goals are will take place by me allowing myself to work with others more often to obtain a better understanding them. In my chosen career field I will always have to work with other. I will achieve this goal by working on my group skills as an undergraduate student through different organizations I am apart of and attending conferences that are inclusive of working with others and understanding others. Renewing organizations I am passionate about instead of quitting is another personal leadership goal. I will achieve this goal by staying committed to organizations I join and evaluating positions I take in certain organizations.

College is an intimidating challenge that has encouragement to achieve success. According to Dr. Randall S. Hansen, a professor with a Ph.D. along with being a marketer and the founder of Quintessential Careers, he examined and explained how students react and that failure occurs too often. Your First Year of College: 25 Strategies and Tips to Help You Survive and Thrive Your Freshman Year and Beyond; he expressed thoughts on how to succeed through such a tough part in life: college. “Be sure you set aside some time and activities that help you relax and take the stress out of your day or week” Dr. Hansen explained the college experience for people to be exciting, yet beneficial. Reading this article, helped me understand that it is essential

Meeting new people is a major reason for furthering my education at college. Although school isn’t necessarily about socializing, it does play an important role in the human need for interaction. Well-informed people can connect with

Another quote from Kane’s article is by an executive education editor named Lance Gould who stated that a person should not “let the fact that a class starts as early as 9 a.m. deter you from taking it.” Welcome to the higher education level, college is not high school anymore. One must accept the fact there will be life changes in the learning process, but this is part of accommodating a bigger goal in life. So, taking classes in the morning, helps the student start and finish their day earlier. In this way, there is more time to do homework and other activities. These are some of the little things that will help one later to

My Adventure to Foushee's Mill began on Saturday November 5th,  2017.  I had three classmates with me, their names were Hope, Joel, and Casey.  We have been told to go to Foushee's Mill by our Focused Inquiry professor, the week before, to take in what we experience. This was a definitely a new experience for me being only a Freshman in college, and changed how I saw my three classmates. This is what experienced personally on this adventure:

Life is a journey and I wasted part of it. My freshmen year I was thinking the same thing that the vast majority of other high school students were, “When does school end?” This attitude, where I prioritized personal entertainment and immediate satisfaction as a priority over the hypothetical bump in the road that I chose to ignore, is what led me to get a ~2.3 GPA my freshman and sophomore year. I spent my after school hours spending as much time playing video games as I could and trying to put in as little effort as I could into school while still getting a grade that would not completely disappoint my family. According to source 1, “about 25% of freshmen fail to graduate high school on time.” I was on that path. During my summer after sophomore year, I decided to start looking into colleges and what requirements they had to enroll, and I was shocked at what I found. I found that in my position I would not enroll in the large majority of the universities that peaked my interests. It was this sudden realization that hit me, like a tsunami of life crashing down on me, making me realize that I was wasting my potential and making things more difficult for myself. I had always been so wrapped up in the quests that were made for me in the games that I played, that I became heedless to the most epic quest of all, such being the quest of life. I believe that my realization that my future depends upon the decisions I make, what I wanted from my future, and how close it really is

If you asked me to describe a moment, a specific period of time in which I faced a challenge, setback, or failure, it would be impossible for me to answer. The challenge I face, unique to less than 13% of the population of America’s school-aged children, is something I contend with on a daily basis. One wouldn’t know by looking over my academic records, looking at me, or by speaking to me that I have a comorbid neurodevelopmental learning disability. When I was seven years old, I was diagnosed with ADHD without the Hyperactivity and a Sensory Processing Disorder. Essentially, I have considerable difficulty blocking out any and all audio-visual stimuli and trouble with organizing and processing the information I receive from the outside

Not everyone has to go through a traumatic experience in life, however the experience I had to go through made me a stronger person and changed my life forever. This life experience changed my view of the world and shaped me to be the individual I know I am destined to be. I know that as a result of this shocking incident I could have dwelled on all the negatives in my life, but oppositely, this event made me focus on all the blessings in my life and focus on the all the positive aspects of every situation. For me, this experience took place on a day that will forever be permeated into my brain: August 8th, 2010.