My Experience At A Community College

Life skills play an important role for becoming successful professionally and improving our personal lives. Oprah, in her lifeclass video, talks about being responsible for yourself and not waiting for anyone else to change the circumstances around you as a way to develop the skills necessary to flourish. The story of Robert Sherfields first experience at community college, “How Community College Changed My Life” tells of how Mr. Sherfield let go of his past failures and worked toward a better future for himself. The quote by Charles Noble “First we make our habits, then our habits make us!” is great to remember when developing the life skills necessary to continue to grow in all aspects of our lives. The video, story and quote can all be connected, good habits produce responsible people. Responsible people are aware of their

My education became my top priority when starting community college. I am first generation student and my parents just expected me to attend college. I did not have much help from my parent in enrolling or the process of entering college. I did not let that stopped me and continued to do my best. During my community college experience, I did not really like school and struggled with math a lot. I took the wrong classes my first year and changed my major two times. I was never connected to my college and never participated in any clubs or organizations. I felt like I was just there for class, I also think it was this way because I was working a full-time job at the same time. I honestly hated school but I knew that education is very important. During this time, I doubted myself a lot because I did not think I could make it through college. After learning about the Validation theory by Laura Rendon which states “nontraditional students (whom Rendom defined as those from diverse racial/ethnic and cultural background) often doubted their academic ability” (Patton et al. 2016 p. 39). I felt connected to this theory right away because I

In the summer, I attended a guidance class at Chaffey College. I thought that community college was for people who drop out of high school and not take life seriously, but I got that idea from teachers who went straight to universities after high school. When I attended Chaffey, I was surprised to be in a diverse culture. The people that I have met were so different and the professors were very helpful than I expected. Suffering through the midst of exclusion taught me that there are so many options I can choose from in the future. Being a survivor from the destructive side effects of mind control was shocking enough. Fortunately, I recovered from the operation that poisoned every inch of my mind. I was glad that I attended Chaffey because

It is evident the American Community College faces political challenges in the 21st century. According to the America Association of Community College (2017), this is a time of political transition where there are many ambiguities for higher education policymaking surrounding national perceptions of community colleges, funding, infrastructure, immigration, tax reform, accountability, etc. Altbach et al., 1999 (should I include page number (pg 298)) revealed that leaders, such as effective college presidents using a political frame see the inherent politics of the organization, build up plans, muster partnerships, and focus on negotiation and conflict to achieve noble purposes (Altbach et al., 1999 and Bolman et al.,2013, pp216).

“Okay, here we are” The man in the moving truck says as he hops out of the truck to help me unload. “Thanks for the ride.” I said shortly as he opened up the hatch and started unloading my furniture. “You a college girl?” he asked being a bit nosy, I replied simply with “ Yeah, it’s my first year,”. He looked at me and laughed, his voice echoing through the rural neighborhood. “Ain’t no colleges in Chandler.” I looked at him rather surprised as I said “Yes there is, the community college.” He looked at me with an almost worried look on his face. “Didn’t figure you would be going to a smaller college like that. My mistake.”

Everything in my life occurred backwards. I married at age 17 and started a family. My children were my motivation. Postsecondary education seemed impossible. Guidance and a support system were absent from my life. The process for attaining an education seemed so complicated. Postsecondary education seemed so foreign to me. I struggled through paying for one class at a time due to the absence of knowledge about financial aid. Unfortunately, I did not have a counselor that mentored me throughout the process. Nine years later through aspirations for my children, I finally achieved my Associates’ Degree from a community college. Unfortunately, at this time, I never acknowledged my success of receiving a degree.

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

In my time at Eastern Connecticut State University, I learned a lot about myself and what I have been doing as a student. In that time, I learned not only about myself, my academic strength’s and even learned to think critically and ask questions. Eastern has taught me to be myself and this campus puts more emphasis on individuality over group thinking. I learned a lot in applying my critical thinking skills to my history classes and learned a lot in how to look at History in everyday context. What my experience at Eastern as taught me that, I never gave up and I always persevere in many difficult challenges this campus has tossed at me. I always came out on top and learned to deal with challenges that I will face later in Graduate school and in life.

There are challenges that everyone faces in their lives. Some people deal with difficulties as minor as baking problems, some struggle with the pressure of sports or deal with tremendous amounts of social anxiety. For me, many of the problems I face are related to my academics. This past year has produced some of the most strenuous situations. One of which has been the convoluted choice of which classes to take. School is everything to me, because I look forward to a bright future. So, I take classes that I believe will be most beneficial to what I want to do in life.

Hello, my friend. How are you? It has been a while since I get no call, no messages from you. Hope you’re doing well. Since last couple of weeks I think of writing a letter, but time here is fast and my schedules are always busy. Since school work is all I really do in my spare time. Can you believe it has already been ten months since I left India? I miss it over there, but my intension for moving to the United States was to finish my masters and be in the best university and get a nice job in our country. I am living in Houston, Texas, and taking my pre – requested classes at Houston Community College (HCC). As follow my carrier, I have many opportunities here in Houston as this is developing City. The experience here studying is nothing like I would get in our native country. It was so surprising on the very first day of my collage when I saw different age group students are in the same class. Education system in the United States is not the same as the education system in our country. I would like to describe how HCC focuses on our dreams with different curriculums, they follows strict organized calendar, they use different technologies, and about classroom environment.

Being at a community college is sometimes hard being a students of traditional age. It is hard to make friends and create bonds with people. This is often do to the age difference and scheduling. But today I was excited to see, that my biology class five other students that I know. Which is the most I have known in a class so far, which is really exciting to me. It gives me a chance to better know people, and maybe make long term friendships.

After reviewing the Community Colleges, my interest is with Guttman Community College. My current position is working with student retention and often my focus is on ways to increase student retention and increase graduation rates. After visiting the schools website, I’ve noticed that Guttman has a Peer mentoring program. My focus of the project would be to discover the effectiveness of the peer mentoring groups at Guttman. The mentoring groups target three major areas that often cause frustration in student during their college experience. The areas Guttman College has decided to focus on are in the areas of Academic Success, Admissions & Access and Leadership Service. My goals is to determine the starting dates of the peer mentoring program

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

When you first meet this person and start having a conversation with her,you would think that she graduated from a well respected University.But reality she mostly learned from life experiences and from attending a community college.This person is my mom.

I must admit that the thought of going off to college for the first time, made me a little bit nervous. Would my roommate and I get along, would I make new friends, would I find my way around campus, get to the right classrooms, and grades? Some of my most memorable moments have been meeting my roommate and making new friends. Not only have I met a number of new friends in the dorm, but also in my classes. Together, my new friends and I were soon able to find our way around campus and to the classrooms. College life has been such a great experience, because of all of the new friends that I have made, along with the independence it has created in me.