Personal Narrative: Why I Chose To Attend College

In the beginning of the term the class had a discussion about why we are attending college and why they choose the major we are in. Many of the students answer that because they wanted to gain knowledge but also other responded because without an education you cannot get a lot of money. In the article “Making college relevant” by Kate Zernike quoted that in a survey done in Los Angeles, California to 400,000 incoming freshmen in 1971 their answers were that only 37 percent went to college to get money and 73 percent to gain knowledge. The same survey was done in 2009 but the percentages flipped 78 percent wanted money and 48 prefered to gain knowledge. Our percentages were very similar to the 2009 ones. We are in a society where you are expected

I always believed that things would just work out in the end. That I did not need to be wrapped up in over complicated situations because they would unravel themselves. I had this idea that I would grow up, go to college, and then get a job. My older brother Joseph had a similar idea. He started at the University of Dayton in August of 2015, but decided to come back home to our house in Bucks County at the end of October in 2015. His simple decision of “college wasn’t for me” had single handedly ripped me from my cozy reality that “everything works out” and had pitted my family against one another.

I have been in avid since my freshman year of high school and I can honestly say it has really changed my view of college.My freshman year of high school I wasn't even sure I wanted to go to college being that no one in my family went to college I was slightly discouraged.Through avid I learned about college and how it could really change my future.Avid helped me learn organizational skills and study skills that I didnt have before.We learned about taking cornell notes and using our binders as part of our organizational techniques.By becoming more organized I was able to see my grades drastically improve as well.Another concept AVID introduced was the use of planners of course before hand I knew what a planner was but I never really thought

The advice that changed my life was from my boss. I had been out of high school a couple of years, and, at the time, was working full time at a store in the mall. College had always been on the horizon for me, just barely out of reach. However, when I start to think back, I see what little effort I put in to try to reach college. Every time someone asked if I planned on going, I would say yes, I just needed to save up the money, brush up on a few subjects, and get my life in order. In truth though, I was just scared of going back to school. I had not done well in high school and had in fact dropped out. So, even if I had wanted to go to school I would need to take the GED test, and that was something I was not prepared to do. So month after

Everyone always told me, “You need to go to college,” but I was thinking about it in an entirely different way than they were. I thought college was needed to get a degree and a good paying job, which is actually true, but college is also needed because it teaches so much more than what can be learn in class. It teaches life lessons, it forces me to become more independent, and provides me with a great experience that I can take with me whenever I leave college and go out into the real world. The key to surviving freshman year is by taking advantage of all these things that will help me grow as a person.

Now that you understand what a typical day looks like for me in college, let me explain to you why certain people in my life would say that I don't have a life because I attend college to better myself .The reason people say I do not have an interesting life because I am currently enrolled in community college,but my response to their hurtful rhetoric ,is that they do not see the underlying reason on why I am attend college.The reason I decided to go to college to expand my mind more and explore new horizons and be able to learn form the best in best in my career field and apply it to my future career.If I did not attend the college I would not be able to expand my mind and expand and be able to break into my career field in the future.

In this world there are those who wish they could be a child again to not have to deal with stress, and then there are those like me. I am fine with who I have grown up to be along with the fact that I am choosing to pursue my dream so late in life. When I was a child I had no idea where my next meal was going to come from, let alone have idol time to think about what might become of myself in the future. Growing up with a constantly drunk mother, no father, a younger sister who was forever breaking the law, your life becomes a moment to moment decision of what needs to be done at that exact moment in time. No daydreaming for this child.

I want to go through college and maintain a 3.0 g.p.a or higher while being on the track and field team all 4 years. I want to leave Christopher Newport University having broken the pole vault record and setting it even higher than it previously was. In the future I want to have graduated from college with my bachelor science in psychology then go on to graduate school and study criminal psychology and go further into detective work. I want to start a family have 2 children and live in a 4 bedroom house by the beach. I want to be able to live comfortably and not struggle to provide for my family. As long as my wife and children are happy then I know that I have been successful and in turn will be happy.

Why do you want to go to college? Is a great question, but one, unfortunately, that I did not ask myself sooner, after high school and my mandatory military service I asked myself: WHERE do you want to go to college? And I answered myself, the best of course. And so I signed up to Tel Aviv University a short 1 hour commute away. After spending a semester in classes that did not interest me. Professors that I found lacking. I found myself thinking, what did I do? Is this right for me? And most importantly why am I doing this to myself? Why do I want to go to college? After thinking long and hard I finally had my eureka moment. I did not want to go to college, I wanted college to come to me. I wanted to be able to study at my pace, with students

I chose to attend Xavier University, quite honestly, because Xavier offered to pay my way through school. The full-ride offer and being rejected by my top-choice university was what landed me at Xavier. I honestly thought that Xavier was one of the last places that I'd end up; nonetheless, I accepted it as my next school and was eager to get work on furthering my education. Once I realized that I would not be able to go to my top school, University of California at Berkeley, I realized that Xavier was going to be my stepping stone. My mentality was and still is that if I stay focused, work hard, and handle my business, that I will be able to get into Berkeley. I don't look at my position in a negative light at all; I've made relationships with

The reason why I want to be in college is that I long for more job opportunities in future. A college education is my objective. Nowadays, more and more companies want to get highly educated employees. So being in University gives me a golden chance to find good jobs, make more money and improve the quality of life. As far as I’m concerned, I should develop myself in many aspects but not in one aspect.

The high school I attended in Hawaii was largely underfunded and did not have the materials necessary to help prepare me for college. In fact, my old high school holds a college readiness index score of 8.7 out of 100 on US News & World Report. Once I recognized that I was in a poor learning environment, I seized an opportunity to transfer from Konawaena High School to Garfield High School (Seattle) in order to better position myself for college. Subsequent to transferring, I enrolled in Running Start courses at Seattle Central College and sought out help to plot my next steps. In addition to applying to several Colleges I was compelled to apply for scholarships, which paid off because I am now a recipient of the Gates Millennium Scholarship.

Finding the perfect college for yourself can be seen as a backbreaking experience because when you are looking there is never just one aspect that could determine whether a school would be a good fit for you. The two most important things an up and coming college student must look at are the social-emotional fit and academic. The social-emotional aspect is simply saying if you could ever see yourself at the college having a good time with lots of friends and the academics are does that college have the major and or minor you would like to study. The first school I will be looking at is Bethune-Cookman University it is a medium-sized,4 year, private liberal arts historically black college it is located in the small city of Daytona Beach, Florida

From the young age of twelve, I’ve watched my three older siblings leave for college one by one. First my sister, Kassie, moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin and attended the University of Wisconsin La Crosse. A year later my brother, B.J., moved to Des Moines, Iowa and attended DMACC. A few years later, my other sister, Heather, moved to Dubuque, Iowa and attended the University of Dubuque for one semester then transferred to the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. All of my siblings went to college, and I would follow suit and also attend college.

Why VCU? Why choose this university out of all the other colleges? At first, I’ve never thought I would go to college out of state so, when applying to colleges my main choices were colleges in-state. They were affordable, close, and everything I had was back at home. Learning about and applying, to VCU was just a suggestion from a friend and a last-minute decision. But I noticed something when touring each school, the majority of the time I didn’t feel that euphoric feeling of “I’m going to college,” instead, it made me feel dreary. But, the last school I decided to tour was VCU and coming here had a different vibe. It made me feel accepted and able to move forward in life with one of the main reasons being the interactions I had with some