Pursuing My Educational Goals

Thank you for your generosity. This will allow me to focus more on my education and grades rather than be concerned about my financial need. It is because of donors like yourself that I am able to maintain a high GPA and focus on my studies. This scholarship will only further assist in achieving my education, career goals, and increase my chances of success. My major is Feed Science and Management with a minor in Animal Science. Currently I am most interested in research and development. As I continue my education at Kansas State University I will be very thankful for receiving your support.

The opportunity of scholarships would help me achieve my goals of going into education by lightening the financial burden school has put me under. Work and school consume most of my week but any extra time is donated to COS young republican club and donating blood. I am the first in my family to attend college, I strive to do better for myself than what I was born into. A scholarship would help me postpone student loans for as long as possible and allow me to earn my teaching credentials.

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 six-year veteran of the US Army, I have taught and instructed people from multi-cultural backgrounds, vastly different education levels, and without regard to age all while traversing language barriers, cultural, and social norms, with great success. In my pursuit to continuously better myself, I have dedicated my educational goals to understanding what motivates people in the dynamic environments they find themselves. As well, my graduate thesis, titled “The Ethical Choice: Who Should Decide the Fate of Youth Sexual Assault Victims Who Become Pregnant?” gave me an impeccable foundation in quantitative and qualitative research methods.

My mother and father have always taught my sister and I about the importance of furthering our education. Both my parents have never received a college degree; nevertheless, they still worked hard in their respected fields to become a regular middle class family. When my sister applied to colleges, it proved challenging to receive scholarship options since my family doesn’t qualify for many grants or scholarships due to where we fit into the class system. Therefore, because of the struggles my sister went through, I was able to have a realistic goal about where I could continue my education since I knew not going attending college was not an option.

For as long as I can remember, my parents have told me that I need to work hard and get good grades so that one day, I may receive enough scholarships to attend college. Coming from a low-income household, college wasn’t an expectation but rather a dream; one that could only be achieved through a dedication to my academics. Fortunately, I love to be challenged and most of my decision to attend college derived from a personal desire to learn.

My parents believe the best way for me to understand an education’s value is to help pay for my own, so this scholarship would change my life by reducing my financial burden and providing me with more downtime to pursue my passions.

Growing up I never thought going to college would be the path I would take. I always had a hard time keeping up in high school, it discouraged me from any other education after I graduated. Whether it was doing homework or taking a test, I could just never get it right. Attending college seemed a bit discouraging, with nowhere to look for help. Now that I’ve grown up I can see clearer on how school works, and how important it is to study and stay focused. Listening to my parents constantly tell me through high school that I should go to college for a better life was overwhelming. After my dad passed away, it sparked a light in me that listened to what he said and wanted to fulfill his wishes. I use it as motivation. Now, I have perseverance that I didn’t have in high school. I know this because when I am assigned homework or weekend projects, I immediately start running ideas through my head on how I am going to execute them. I am willing to do what it takes to be successful. This is why I believe I deserve a scholarship.

To me, a scholarship is more than just money. A scholarship to me is a stepping stone to the next level. Life gets hard sometimes and it’s good to know that there is help available to those who really need it. I have always been a determined student since I was little. When I entered elementary school, I struggled with learning; therefore, I was held back a year. Being held back was a minor setback for my major comeback because since then I remained on the honor roll list each year. I graduated high school with honors and ranked 42 out 319 students. I was on the Dean’s list during my first two years of college and now as a junior in college my GPA is a 3.3. I am a member of Phi Theta Kappa honor society. Even though I was held back

I believe that through my aptitude for math and technology, quest for knowledge, in addition to the guidance of my parents, I am quite capable of attaining my aspired educational and career goals.

Throughout my whole life I was told, “The only way you will be able to attend college will be obtaining a scholarship.” Receiving this scholarship will help me in the long run to be able to say I was the first one in my family to go to college and receive my degree. It is even better when I can say I got my degree from North Carolina Central University. From my family background, there was not much thought put into going to college, it was straight to the work field. I see everyday what it is like trying to get a job in this society without a college education. Not in just my own household, but also in the community. Seeing it everyday is just more motivation for me to put in my all and be the one that is able to say I made it out. Receiving

What do I want or need out of my education? I would like to have a successful education. I would also need a fallback plan if my art career fails. I’ve always aspired to go to college. Also, I need to have good grades to prove to everyone and myself that I didn’t go to school for nothing and that I want to go places in life. Lastly, I want to have an education to work on life skills, to grasp more knowledge, to learn other cultures, and to know more and be smarter than I was the year before.

Dr. Martin Luther King Junior once stated, “I have a dream…” Each and every one of us can discover that we all have our own dream. Our dream can reflect our career, personal, and academic goals. When our dream can fulfill each one of these goals, we can define it as our purpose. My purpose can be very confusing, and contorts to certain situations. In the past week, I have thought about my true meaning in this world. I believe my purpose is to teach others and make a difference through influencing other’s lives. My life’s goal is to teach the uneducated especially pointed towards the little ones. I want to educate those from the ages of eight months to eight or nine years. Influencing people’s lives can make the difference from a bleak world full of hatred and dismay to a world full of love and charity towards one another. I hope I can influence just enough of the right people to learn to accept others how they are presented to us. Personal goals of mine include teaching children, making a difference by influencing, and starting a family of my own. My academic goals for college include graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education. Also, I want to maintain a grade point average of three-point-seven or higher. The career in education can be quite vigorous and I owe it to my future students to attain the best, most competent education I can receive to be able to teach them well. My career goal is to teach in a Kindergarten classroom working with special needs

I come from a family who has never gone far in their education. I have been determined to change that. One of the biggest goals I've had in my life was to be the first person in my family to attend college, and that’s exactly what I am doing. I plan to obtain a bachelor's degree in theatre arts with a performance emphasis. I first walked across a theatre stage at the age of eleven, and I fell in love. After my first performance in sixth grade, I continued to say I was going to become a theatre major. Now, that dream is becoming a reality. I have selected my major because I will be able to do what I love (acting) and I will be able to work in the environment I have been dreaming about for years. After receiving my degree, I plan to attend graduate school to take obtain my master’s degree. I believe because I am the first person to go to college in my family I should go the whole 9 yards. I would like to receive two majors and a minor, even though I am not sure what the additional ones will be. Although those are my educational goals, I have some even bigger life goals.

Today, every-other person has some kind of goal to achieve in their life. From every-