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My Motivation For A Student

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My main motivation to be a CCM student was the fact that I am a high school senior, and it would make me a challenger student. This is good for college applications. Also, since I am taking college level courses, I can transfer the credits I earn here to the college I plan on attending next year. Aside from these factors, I personally thought it would be a good opportunity to see what college is like and to get a feel for what I like and dislike about college life.
Mills’ Theory can be described as the interactions between people and their environment, and explains how society shapes the way people grow and change through the course of their life, as well as how they interact as adults. The theory applies to my new experiences as a high school student attending college, as well as the personal and public issues that students and teachers deal with within the college. The majority of my reasons for attending CCM are structural factors, because they are more prominently caused by social structure (my surroundings); for example, I wouldn’t need to take a college course if I didn’t need to impress an admissions director, and I wouldn’t be in the Challenger program if the credits I earned at the college were non transferable. My main reasons for attending CCM are structural- meaning that my personal decision was heavily influenced by my environment and societal norms. Such norms include the importance of a person going to college, as well as the idea that college will, without

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