Personal Narrative: Continuing My Education

I look back at how I write. I actually changed my way after I get into college. When I was in high school, we don’t have writing class, the writing is combined with Chinese class. So we might just take 2 or 3 times writing class each semester. In the writing class, teacher taught us how to write, how to generate our idea. But except writing class we are asked for write, the only writing we need to do is for the exam. In the writing class, I would give some time to think about what I’m going to write, maybe I would write a outline. But for the exam, I don’t have time to do that. The writing part take 40 percent of the grade, but the time we got is depend on how fast we can finish the other parts of the exam. When I finish other parts of the

My biggest challenge starting this program is getting acclimated to a school setting and schedule once again. I started my Master’s program in 2008 and I completed my degree requirements in 2010. Since then, I’ve begun working full-time whereas during that timeframe I was working on a part-time schedule. While working I’ve accumulated a number of assignments that I am responsible for and my work schedule changes often due to those assignments. So, not only do my duties change but my schedule changes quite often. With my current assignment, I’m working as a New Hire Instructor for a federal agency and I am assuming all duties of this assignment along with my regular position.

Iv noticed that my peers and myself have nowhere to blow off steam or socialize with each other. I feel it would do my peers and myself some good to have somewhere to go to socialize and blow off steam.

My post secondary goals involve going to a 4 year college and becoming an industrial engineer. Math and science are essential in any field of engineering. My passion for these subjects is reflected in my work key's scores. I earned gold for both applied mathematics and reading for information, and silver for locating information. Industrial engineers should know how to set up and solve problems , read graphs and how to read directions. Based on my scores, I believe I can excel in engineering.

“Quero que meus netos para ter sucesso e ser feliz e viver a vida,” my grandma told me, this means she wants her grandchildren to be successful and be happy and live life. This makes me want to succeed in school and just succeed in everything. The person who introduced avid to me was my older brother, Anthony. He is in a state university, so seeing that he got there because of avid makes me notice that avid is a great program. When I transitioned from 8th grade avid to freshmen year avid it was very different. I thought the binder checks, the essays, and the tutor was a waste of time but now I realize it is not. Avid is a program not to just get ready for college but to life goals. Avid teachers are not just teacher, like are more, as like a friend but also a teacher's. My avid

When I started college, I learned I have to do everything on my own. I had no idea what all I needed to do before the first semester began. I first learned that my mom couldn’t keep doing everything for me. It was my job to find out everything I needed. It was a tough adjustment from what I was used to but I was excited to get started.

Up to last December, I had no academic goals, leave alone any plan for my future. It was not that I chose to neglect privileges, I did not care because higher education was never a theme of discussion for my family. In fact, my parents and I rarely have a conversation.

classes to support my own learning and looking for the right resources. Supportive is that my husband can teach me the language without attending a language class and that I can learn and improve by talking to him. I am planning to learn once a week for two hours.

In my life outside of school I like to hangout with my friends and exercise. I used to play soccer but February of freshman year I got a bad concussion and couldn't play sports or do a lot of things for about a year. I recently got cleared to go back to sports but I am still struggling with headaches. This fall I am coaching youth soccer (ages 4,5,6) for my town. I also babysit every weekend. I live with both my parents who are happily married. I have two younger brothers, Jack and Jay, that both play hockey. They are 8 and 12 years old .

I have not had many jobs. However, the few that I did were meaningful and taught me a great deal. One such job was the one I held during the summer of my sophomore year. I worked at one of the many North Star Charter schools that serve students of several minority groups in my hometown of Newark, NJ. During my time at North Star, I helped design curriculum for the General Educational Development (GED) program. I gained insight into methods used to teach adults, some far removed from high school by as many as twenty years. I had the opportunity to see how the teachers would adapt the methods originally used to teach their elementary students to educate their GED students. This experience sparked my interest in alternative methods of education

Good to meet you! That is exactly the reason why I decided to give it my all at SNHU and finish my four-year education. The trade-off was just too important to put it off with any more excuses. I was a legal secretary for many, many years and in the last 5-10 year (more or less) I have noticed that employers will not even look at my resume if I cannot prove that I have a four-year education. It is really great to see you made that same decision.

As a freshman I know it is important to make goals for myself to get through high school. I must also set goals in my personal life and my career. Setting goals now can help me be what I want to become. With goals I know that I must plan ahead for college and my future career. If I plan ahead now I will be able to turn my dreams into realities.

Another aspect that defines me as a learner is my time management. In all honesty four years ago I used to terrible at properly managing my time. However, after I started college, I had to find a way to manage my time better. As a consequence, I feel that I am a much better learner because I do not let anything to distract me when I’m trying to focus on learning something. My personal 24 hours diagram data in comparison to the national data of college students’ average usage of time, is quite similar. However, I seem to spend more time traveling than an average student. That is because I commute from home to school which is about one hour and a half each way. I also spend more time preparing a meal than most students since I cook all of my

The experiences and situations that one faces in life if analyzed and reflected upon can be turned to lifelong lessons and opportunities. When looking back at the beginning of this course I really did not know what to expect but, I am grateful for this experience and the lifelong lessons I was able to gain. As we discussed many times in this class one of the many struggles that teachers face is what one should or shouldn't do or what is illegal or legal. We agreed numerous times that this course should definitely be something undergraduates in the field of education should have to learn. Furthermore, I hope to one day be an administrator that understands the legal issues of the past and present and be able to apply that to my day to day interactions

A goal that I set for myself in the past is not continuing my education right after high school. I did not succeed with my goal as I did not set out to find the information that is needed to get financial help to achieve my goal. Coming from a migrant family, the responsibility we had was to help out the family, my parents did not speak English so my sister and I where the ones helping with translation for them. Being just recently graduated I did want to attend college but I did not want to leave my Mother and Father behind without the help my sister and I where to them, so my hopes with going off to college where placed on a standstill. I did not see the bigger picture, I did not see that by going off to college my parents would be fine