Pursuing My Geo Career

What motivated me to enroll at GCU and pursue a degree in higher education is to live my dreams and to also to let my grandfather live to see his wish comes to pass. My grandfather is my biggest motivation growing up with my grandparents from I was nine months old until I migrated to the united states for college give me a great inspiration about education, my grandmother always uses to teach me how to read adult books, when I was just a third grader. She would normally say if I can not read the adults book I must read all the sign words I know and pronouns the big words in syllables. My grandmother plays the mother figure in my life during that time frame, I become a great reader and use to be the honor student in school, two years after my grandmother was admitted to a hospital to do a

Sometimes we learn something because it sparks our interest without knowing the journey we’re about to embark. It might be a short journey that can leave us wanting more or an extensive one in which it’s not something you just learn, but it becomes a passion. Without even knowing it, I started my journey learning how to play the violin out of curiosity and it ended up becoming something I am strongly passionate about.

As a young boy, I never truly put much into school. I put as little thought about college as well, but it took one moment that made me want the desire to succeed in my life and make something of it. Working for 12 straight hours in the middle of the hot sun, making minimum wage wasn't how I wanted to live. Going to multiple jobs and having to work all weekend, even during school occasionally was extremely difficult. This just gave me that extra drive to be more superior than anyone else. Yet, I never gave up and still pushed to be the best student I could be. Staying up late nights just to finish homework so I was able to make the best grade in class. The simplest moments in life made we want to be the best

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passion. I attended school at Sumter Central High School where my passion to teach children grew stronger.

Learning has always been my passion. When I was younger, I would spend hours pouring over dictionary pages, trying to decrypt the hidden messages of jumbled up symbols. I would take a book and invent stories to go along with the pictures. Nothing ever stopped me from trying to understand things. When I turned 4, my dad finally taught me to read. We would sit on the couch, me sounding out each word and my dad correcting me after each mispronunciation. The experience was enthralling. Ever since that moment, I have been passionate about learning. When given the opportunity to learn, I seize it. In this way, I identify most with the Scholarship aspect of the Nation Honors Society. Education has never been the means to gain a degree, but rather the means to expand my knowledge.

Personally I would say there was a number of people who motivated me to attend college. But mainly I had a great foundation at home. Although my parents did not graduate from college yet, it was expected of me to

I always showed curiosity in learning, as a kid I would regularly engage in conversations with the adults asking those questions with regards to social phenomena. Growing up in Honduras played an important role in my life as it shaped my vision of what I wanted to become. I began reading

Washtenaw ACT (Assertive Community Treatment) is my current field placement and area of interest. The agency monitors medication, coordinates and links clients to resources, assesses mental health, and assists in the planning and advocating for our clients social status, mental health and overall well-being for individuals with a severe and persistent mental illness (CSTS, 2011). With all of the great methods we use at ACT, we do not use any of the current information or techniques we have discussed this far in class. Severe and persistent mentally ill populations show the most immediate benefits from psychotropic medication involved treatments. A meta-analysis of 106 studies found that individuals with psychotropic medications were more improved than 65% of individuals treated with somatic methods only (Bently, 2002).

I have always been my own motivator and it has not always been easy. Being a first-generation college student meant going it on my own, making mistakes and learning from them. At the start of my college adventure I met Professor Michelle Field who introduced me to more than my love of Anthropology, but looking back she is now my inspiration to want to teach Anthropology. This was not something I knew coming into college, but some of the greatest things in life come together when you least expect them, you just have to be flexible. Moving to Bellingham to finish my undergraduate degree came at the most difficult time in my life only days after losing a parent, but Western Washington University became my new home and offered the fresh start I needed and the opportunity to continue to develop as a student that I so deeply craved.

Feedback: Without science and technology, the great majority of us would be dead, so we tend to be supporters of science. Although we know that science works, we’re never sure that it is completely right. Students so often discover things that professors missed, or that professors got wrong, that scientists would be silly

There's several things and people that have influenced me into going back to school. Some good some

In his quest to discover an accurate age for the planet Earth, a determined scientist inadvertently discovered the mass poisoning of a population by modern civilization. Geochemist,

Falling in love with the ocean, its creatures and wanting to become a Marine Biologist did not spark out of no where, my father is the one that sparked my interest in the filed because he was extremely fascinated by the ocean and its critters. When I was younger he was an avid diver, going out on the dive boat every weekend possible to take photographs while dragging my mother and I along for the ride. I was not one to complain because it meant the beach just about every

As important as Geosciences are to this area, one might think that it would be something more commonly known about, or in schools, due to its rising importance, more students would have a goal of going into Geosciences. However, I have faced a lot of opposition in choosing this career path, even from places I would never expect. In 11th grade I attended OSSM, which is a science and math magnet school, because I wanted to meet other students with similar interests and have better access to scientific resources. However, even in such a scientific community, I was mocked, not only by students, but by staff for wanting to pursue a career and interests they deemed useless. This fact was shocking to me, as OSSM advertised as “the only high school