Growing Up Research Paper

My long-term goal with my college education is to complete my Bachelor's degree and eventually continue on to receive my Master’s degree in criminal justice. The first step to complete my long-term goal is receiving my Associate’s degree in criminal justice by May 2017. This goal is specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely.

Going to college has been a dream of mine growing up. I am the first ever in my family to go to college but figuring out how to pay for it has been a challenge. I desire to achieve my academic and career goals and this scholarship can help me succeed in my journey.

My academic goal is to graduate Argosy University with a bachelors degree in Forensic Psychology in three years time. Forensic Psychology is the study of the criminal mind, in a nutshell. The main motivation to achieve this goal would be intrinsic. I love asking questions and knowing the answers as to why people do what they do, and in a criminals case, what led them to committing the crime. This goal, however, may have some extrinsic motivation as well. Being knowledgeable about certain behaviors that criminals poses may help solve or even prevent a crime. In addition, having a degree will help open different paths in life, ones that may present me with greater job opportunities. My attitude toward the learning process will help my achievement of each goal because I am eager, determined and motivated. My greatest desire is to succeed in life, and obtaining an education is one thing I know will help me. I perhaps will need to make some adjustments along my journey. I do not know yet if I will find another educational path that intrigues me the most. For now, I do not feel that any adjustments need to be made.

Describe your educational career and life goals. Explain your plan for achieving these goals. Include your degree/major, why you selected it, and how this degree/major will help you achieve your goals.

During middle school, I used to always get made fun for everything, especially my grades, they used to get called a nerd. But for some reason, everybody wanted the answers to the homework that was due and help on a quiz or test whenever they were stuck. I used to feel very bad of myself because I thought I would never fit in with “cool kids” who just asked me for answers. This made me less confident and have low-self-esteem because I didn’t have any real friends. I triumphed and fought my very hardest to focus on my success and growth. I faced many challenges while doing this, for example my favorite teacher had passed away, I was going through a lot with my family and I didn’t really have friends. It was during these struggles

Where to start? I was born on September 27, 1996 and have lived here in Santa Rosa all of my life. I have a happily married mother and father and a twenty three year old sister with whom I am all very close with. My family is my rock and I depend on them heavily in my day to day life. For the first seven years of my life we lived in a tiny two bedroom house in a great neighborhood full of kids I went to school with. After that we moved to a larger house, where we all still live, to accommodate my sister and I as we became older. I believe I am honest to say that I have had a very good life so far. However, as you will read, my whole life is not filled with sunshine and daisies. With all the good memories I have come the bad ones, and I am learning to appreciate whatever life throws at me as I become older.

Making mistakes when growing up is part of the process, but having someone to guide you through the journey is always helpful. Growing up I was the oldest in my family, which meant I always had to figure everything out on my own without any assistance. Being a first generation Canadian meant my parents weren’t always sure on how to help with certain homework topics, but they always tried their hardest and even got me a tutor. Having my parents support always pushed me harder to do well in school, even though they could not always add to my educational pursuits, they always encouraged me, and rewarded me for my good work. As someone who is almost done high school I decided to pass down my wisdom, and how I got through tough situations.

Considering my current lifetime goals, all of the academic and extracurricular activities that I am taking play a positive role in achieving my goals. Goals which include being able to study educational material efficiently, to be able to play a positive role to my community and to improve myself as a human being.

Growing up, no one really knows what to expect from, well, much of anything. We learn from the world around us which isn’t always kind but isn’t exactly evil in the same sense. We choose to perceive the world around us by the way we observe it and the things we are exposed to our life times. Personally, I’ve lived these highs-and-lows quite frequently and never knew when the next thing would give me a fresh look on the life I am living.

me, and there is nothing more I would want to do than to give back to the community.

What goals do you have for the future? Describe what you hope to accomplish by the time you are 50 and anticipate important decisions you might have to make.

Growing up isn't always easy, you can lose friends, family or even have your closest family separate. At young age i began to realize that the fragile emotions of my inner being began to overflow and spill out. During my parents harsh arguments I tried to understand why this was happening and why things weren’t how they were in books that I had read and tried to envision or movies that i watched and tried to make a reality. Over the course of several years I watched my parents marriage slowly crumble from a impenetrable diamond to a broken stone. I remember specifically, sitting down in the kitchen working on my homework and listening to my the beings that I looked up to and wanted to be just like when i grew up, I sat there and heard them

Although some people say humans want to stay kids forever there’s gonna be a point in time were you’ll have to be mature enough. For example, my cousin, Luis, he acts like a little kid, yet he’s 20 years old. Also, my brother he’s 19 years old as well and can be immature at times, but mature when it’s needed.

One of the greatest feelings in this world is achieving our goals. Since I was six years of age, I 've been wrestling. Since day one of my training, my goal was to be a wrestling champion. Ever since I first watched how cool the high school boys looked, they were beasts with blood gushing out of there noses, and eyes swollen shut and black. I 've always wanted to be great wrestler, and I wanted to be one of the best wrestlers in the state of Colorado. To accomplish my goal, I knew it was going to be a long and challenging process. So throughout the years, I knew that I would have to push myself and wrestle when ever I could, and never give up on my goal.

Growing up in Miami I have gotten accustomed to the cold and impersonal interactions attributed to living in a big city. Although I enjoy all of the opportunities that are presented by metropolitan areas, it disheartens me to know that most people in urban settings do not know their neighbors. Via avian perspective, you can see the large-scale segregation of classes and ethnic groups. Little Havana, Little Haiti, and Little Puerto Rico are just some examples of the neighborhoods I have called home. As a multiracial child, I found it difficult to fit in when the typical icebreaker question was “Where are you from?” “Me?” I would ask. Knowing there was a narrow range of accepted responses I replied, “I am from here - from Earth... but more importantly, where am I going?” It seems a natural human characteristic to assign greater importance to our past experiences than to our aspirations for the future. In order to achieve what I want with my life I know that I must not dwell on the past but focus on the future.