My Overall Academic Goals

Ever since I was young, I was exposed to a Historically Black College or University, Jackson State University. I had always went to activities and functions such as football games, summer programs, and other special events. I did not know whether I would attend a historically Black College or University (HBCU) or not at the time. I had finally decided to go to a HBCU, and I would attend Tougaloo College in the fall to further my education. I have many goals and objectives for pursing my educational experience at a historically Black College, and I plan to achieve them.

I have decided on what I wanted to do with college since I was a child. It sounds ridiculous, but I am passionate about what I want to do. I was inspired at a very young age since I was in third grade, and I knew that I wanted to be a teacher. A teacher for what grade is what I did not know. As my family grew bigger with my nephews and nieces, I realized that I wanted to be surrounded by kids. I put what I wanted with my passion and got major. My intended major is to receive a double major in Primary and Elementary education, my goal is to receive a Masters in at least one of these majors.

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 mom is one of the motivations for me to continue and finish my education. Despite everything my mom sacrificed for me I was stubborn and lazy and barely attempted to pass my classes which in the end added more stress to my mom’s list. I’ve always disappointed her so I feel in order start to pay her back for everything she’s done I need to finish school by graduating high school and college then helping her out with money. She’s always motivated me to do better to show other people who looked down on me that I can do better. Many other things motivate me like the need to succeed because of the people who didn’t believe I could do anything because I slacked off when I was younger. People would always say that my mom raised us wrong and after we stopped going to private school and began going to public school. They looked down on my mom and my sisters as well as me. They would always talk bad about us behind our backs despite being related to us. Fake smiles when we were around from when I was young despite never doing anything bad to them. They’ve helped me want to show them that I will do better than them to show them how their doubt has pushed me. These things and people are very important in my life because they give me the will to continue and be better than I am now and be better in the future too.

As a prospective Biology major and Veterinarian, I hope to gain experience working with plants and animals in the field of Biology and consider internships with veterinarians. I plan to put my experience and qualifications to use by applying for an accredited veterinary college. Upon acceptance, I will strive towards earning a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree (DVM). If I do not gain acceptance into a veterinary medicine program, then I will steer myself more towards the forensic science fields. A degree and certification in veterinary medicine is appealing and preferable to me. However, to keep my options open, the field of forensic science and crime scene investigations will serve as

Life is a continual learning process, which requires a strong method to develop better ways of apprenticeship. Personally, being able to obtain a higher education gives me an opportunity to be better in many ways. Everyone should have any personal goals in life in order to survive, prosper and succeed in every journey that life gives. As for me, being a University of Phoenix student, I hope to achieve all of my goals on which I have been trying to pursue and obtain through the years. They are goals that I believe I need to have to be a successful member of the society, and through attending the university I also hope to gain a more positive image of myself, build my personal growth, along with achieving

My educational goal is to graduate by Spring 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts in graphic design. My long term goal is to become a graphic designer and grow from there working as a freelancer or with a company that shares my values of having creative freedom, an open and honest environment, and working with passion and determination. My college education is the key to achieve my long term goal because I have learned the skills I need to become a graphic designer and learned more about the industry from what I have experienced so far. The skills I obtain from my college education are skills I can not learn outside that would prepare me for my career path.

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.

With the education I plan on pursuing, mechanical designing is a major part of mechanical engineering. Learning and creating designs for machine parts will help build my knowledge, experience and appreciation for the parts that people have spent their time and efforts to create. After, completing college I plan on entering into a career that is surrounded in mechanical designing, for either a small automotive car company or a factory that designs part for machines. Then build my experience in hopes of working in a bigger and more profound company like Buick. These are my goals in attending college, and I know they will only remain goals unless I put time and effort in the classroom, as well as outside school to make those goals into

One of my academic goals is to get the best education possible at Allan Hancock College before I transfer. I will accomplish this by always paying attention to all my teachers and do all my work and most importantly make school my number one priority. Another academic goal that I have is to transfer to Cal Poly or Long Beach and obtain my Master’s degree in education. I also want to graduate with honor and with a 3.5 GPA or above. I decided that I wanted to be a teacher because I like helping people out and also I enjoy working with kids. I selected these goals because my economic background is not the great, most of the money that my family makes goes to the rent and daily expenses. We live in a small apartment and we are a family of five; we don’t usually go out and eat at restaurants only in special occasions.

There are multiple difficulties that I will face as I work toward my goal of earning my degree in nursing. I am a mother of a little boy with special needs. My son has Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome and he’s sick frequently, when he gets sick he usually has seizures, so unless someone is CPR certified I don’t let anyone watch him. That being said, child care for my son will be one of the biggest difficulties I will face. I will probably miss a lot of school for that reason. Finances may also be a problem I face. I don’t have a very stable financial situation, but to be honest, what college student does? Life throws unexpected set-backs every day. You never know when your car will break down, it snows too much to get to school, or you wake up with the flu.

Goals are like road maps; they get a person from one point to another. Goals provide the direction one needs to reach a destination. The best way to get results is to plan for the future, but live one day at a time. Think about the future; how does one define success? What makes one happy? What drives a person? What makes a person get out of bed in the morning? Does success mean family, money, security, helping others, improving the environment, solving problems, a career, or a degree? Whatever a student decides, the key to academic success is to strengthen one’s will to succeed and to do this one must set academic goals.

Attaining this GPA hasn't been easy. For the past 3 years i've had to sacrifice my free time like long hours of watching TV, shifts at work, and sleep. I stay up studying until I know my material, I decrease my amount of work time for studying, and I don't have much time to watch tv due to my homework. This task gets really tough at times due to the obstacles I encounter. I get obstacles like incomprehensible information from my complex classes, stress, and pressure from friends and family. Theses obstacles are very hard to keep up with but I keep my mind set on that GPA. I overcome all these obstacles by managing my time well by making lists and getting things done as soon as possible. To help with my more advanced classes I try to look up youtube videos explaining everything more thoroughly. To deal with stress I try to listen to music and drink stress relief teas, and to deal with my friends and family I try my best to avoid conversation about school to stop stressing myself out.

Most of my pre-teen years I thought I was not able to go to college. I thought it was too expensive and that only the smart people and people who had enough money could go. Until I got to middle school, I found out about scholarships and how they can really help students of parents with low income go to college. I wanted to learn more and more about programs that help students like me. I wanted to make my parents proud but most importantly, myself. I think college is a gateway to a million possibilities and doing the things you love for the rest of your life. This was the start of my lifelong goals.

Many people have goal short, mid, and long term some of these goals can be personal or educational. What do goals help you with? By setting up goals what do you achieve, how do you set one up and follow that goal. I have created my own educational and personal goals for high school, college, and career. As a high schooler we want to be able to go to college and to be able to reach that, I have set up goals that would lead me to my result. The goals that I have set up was my two-high school goal are to join clubs and to graduate. Having a college goal is difficult, when I say "difficult " I mean we still don’t know what we want... for example what school? where do you want to live, do you even want to go to college? But I have some goas that I would like to reach. My first college goal would be living in a dorm, living at the campus would save gas which means saving money. My second goal is to make new friends, this may be goal that everyone has since preschool. Making new friends means going out having fun because we all know that college can be stressful, but having friends is also helpful with your study's, they could help you on something you don’t understand. My career goals are to become a doctor or a nurse. Becoming a nurse could be baby steps to leading me into becoming a doctor.