My Target Accomplishment At The Gray Zones Of Transitioning Can Challenge

Growing up, school was not a major factor in my life. I come from a hard-working, middle-class military family. My mother, a Filipino immigrant, was a homemaker. My father was a 21-year United States Marine veteran. They were my first impression of what I thought my future would be. Being the youngest of four children, I was expected to fall in line behind my siblings when it came to education. I was never pushed to excel in my studies, so I did just enough to get by. As I watched friends escape the grasp of a military town and ascend to their respective colleges, I was left wondering what was next for me. I attended my local community college for a brief period of time. I treated college no different than high school. I

Throughout life we go through many stepping stones, Maya Angelou's autobiographical essay "Graduation", was about more than just moving on to another grade. The unexpected events that occurred during the ceremony enabled her to graduate from the views of a child to the more experienced and sometimes disenchanting views of an adult. Upon reading the story there is an initial feeling of excitement and hope which was quickly tarnished with the abrupt awareness of human prejudices. The author vividly illustrates a rainbow of significant mood changes she undergoes throughout the story.

When I graduated high school I had no idea what I wanted to do, all I knew is I was done with public school and could live my life as what I thought an adult was. My father and most of my family believed it was important for me to go to college, and get a kick start with my life. Though they weren’t wrong, I had no idea what I wanted to do and no discipline to do my studies to the full extent of my abilities.

After high school I have strong intentions on moving forward with my education by going to college. By going to college I attend to further expand my knowledge in a field that I am interested in pursuing, so that I can

Transitions can allow individuals to uncover knowledge through the provoking of principle values, which causes one to reevaluate their position and relations in life. This can create change that allows for circumstantial acceptance, which causes monumental growth and significant personal reward for individuals and those around them. A confronting transition can force an individual to reevaluate their relations with others, due to an emotionally provocative realisation. Whilst transitions encapsulate negatively challenging ones principle values, they have the potential to allow for a ‘new start’. Additionally, one’s comprehension of values may be reformed during transitions, as an individual is forced to overcome hardships. These notions are

College is a chance to be free and is a bridge between the real world and school. I’m an adult and expected to behave as such; I make my own choices where I have to decide what is important to me. I have an opportunity to learn how the world works, to explore the limitless possibilities and a chance to admire how vast knowledge can be. College will change my life in the way that I can develop life skills outside academics, to be fully

Ever since I can remember I have always been passionate about helping other people, which then sparked my desire to continue my education. As I began to grow older I witnessed my four brothers drop out of high school, and that lead to the expectation

The ceremony started with a shock, deceit, and very negative thoughts for everyone in the auditorium when Edward Donleavy, the white state representative gave his commencement speech, hurting the feelings and compromising the goals and ambitions of the young graduates. At the end, however, Henry Reed, the valedictorian of the class, unexpectedly concluded his speech by prompting his fellow graduate and the whole auditorium to sing with him the Negro National Anthem “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, This lifted the children of the graduating class high to the top and provided them the courage, energy and renewed

The process of transitioning from one phase of life into another is one of the most emotionally complex changes a person can make. Whether this transition is personal or professional in nature, making major adjustments during the course of one's life can lead to an often overwhelming process of reflection, apprehension, and confusion. Psychologists and other researchers concerned with assisting people with the process of transition have developed various models designed to guide an individual through significant changes, with William Bridges' 3-stage Transition Model and the Spencer and Adams 7-stage Model of Personal Change having gained the most prominence among academics. Bridges' Transition Model is ordered on the first stage (ending, losing and letting go), the second stage (the neutral zone), and the third stage (the new beginning), and proscribes certain steps to help guide people through each stage of transition (Blais & Hayes, 2011). Spencer and Adams' Model of Personal Change contains seven stages (losing focus, minimizing the impact, the pit, letting go of the past, testing the limits, searching for meaning, and integration), while owing greater attention to the complex cycle of emotional instability an individual experiences during drastic changes in their life (Blais & Hayes, 2011).

I was set free from any expectations that were held to us in high school. There were no more worries of being home, and in bed by a certain time. It’s a lot of responsibility compared to being at home and having family to help out with everything. College is similar to Douglass’s life. You have to be willing to go out and challenge yourself to conquer a difficult class that your taking. Having the will to push through and succeed in learning is very important. A liberating moment was realizing what the world had to offer. There is so much more to explore in life than small town

I knew college was going to change me in many ways. Yet, after my family and I restructured our collective and individual emotional reactivity over the three years that I was away at school, I believed my work in that department was done. I thought transiting into college was difficult, however, I found myself once again unprepared for the aftershock that rocked my family once I return from school. I left college a strong, independent, mature, and differentiated person, or at least I kind of did.

Everyone when they were younger say what they want to be when they older right? My plan was to always go to college after high school. I choice to go to College now because it's at the right time graduating right after high school this year , might as well start college now and take no years off to get things moving quicker and hopefully get my career if I do well in college which I hope . In my opinion it's better to start soon then later. There were a few individuals in my life that continuously tried to influence me to attend college. I had several family members that were attending college, and a couple that had already graduated. Being around my family always made me think about my lifetime goals career and education wise

Transitioning, developing, transforming, all things us humans experience in different ways and at different times throughout life. But how do we experience this transition? Do we learn new things from the process? How far are some people willing to go for growth and change? And are consequences involved?

One of the toughest challenges we have to undergo in our lifetime is transitioning into something new. Whether it being moving to a new place, or getting a new job, change is inevitable. After reading Yeonmi Park’s novel, “In Order to Live,” I began to think about my own transitions in life. In her book, Park talks about her difficulties in escaping North Korea and beginning life as a new woman. Although my own experiences have not been as troublesome, transitioning into a woman has been one of the hardest challenges I have ever had to conquer. After reading Park’s novel, one can infer how quickly she had to mature and act like an adult at a young age. I myself may not have been as young as Park, but her and I share the similarities of transitioning

The objective of this class is to develop the knowledge and skills that ease the transitions we all go through. With this work we will come to understand the paradox of change and gain a deep understanding of the process of transitions. In using Robert Brumet’s book Finding Yourself in Transition as our guide, we will join with the Israelites of Scripture as they move from an ending, into the void (the wilderness), to a new beginning (the Promised Land).