The Importance Of Going To Montgomery College

My mother always reminded me how education is the most important tool which I can use to improve myself and my community. After obtaining my undergraduate degree in geography in the late nineties, I later moved to the United States a year later to peruse a master degree in computer sciences. After arriving in the US, I learned that life was not as easy as I thought. I could not afford the tuition, paying my bills and taking care of my family. I later dropped out of school to work some low paying jobs in order to save money to continue my education. After several years of contemplating what to study, I enrolled in a community college to continue my education in radiologic technology.

As far as I could remember, I have always appreciated by education and wanted to thrive with it. When i was 8 I had the great idea of becoming a mechanical engineer at northwestern.

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

Leaving home at the age of 18, loving on my own, figuring how to become an adult, and moving out to college, there were many things being thrown at me in which I was not fully prepared for them. Moving out at 18 is normal for any high school graduate in The United States. Being a Mexican American women it was more than just the net step to life , but a huge accomplishment. Being ascribed into a poor family increased the desire to move forward. My parents did not want me to follow their footsteps into the world of low waged labor, they wanted more. Growing up all I heard from teachers and family members was to go to college. For many it’s the normal thing for a high school graduate to do. For me it was more than socialization it was the path

To begin, my immediate family is well-educated, meaning that both of my parents received a primary education, but also went on to study and graduate from universities. I believe this factor allowed me to succeed in coming to ISU, because my parents were able to recognize the significance of their higher education and how it correlated with their careers and current lifestyle. These factors contributed to my parents instilling in me the need to receive a college education in order to have more access to future opportunities.

Graduating high school was an exciting time, but I felt lost. I wasn't sure of my career goals or what I wanted to accomplish at University. When I first decided to attend community college, I felt hesitant because I did not take the traditional route like my other classmates. However, community college was cheaper and would give me time to figure out the career path I wanted to take.

The most common questions in a high schooler's life is “ where are you going for college” or “do you plan on going to college?” in my case I answered yes and said Meramec. I am going to Meramec Community College for multiple reasons, I am not the only child in the family so that means my parents have to pay for two other kids as well, so tuition at a four year college would be to much for them to pay. I also decided to attend Meramec so that I could help out with taking my siblings to school instead of having my dad taking them every morning and only getting a couple of hours of sleep. Being Hispanic and coming from a background where school is very important, I need to try harder and be someone in life and not be that guy who doesn't have any money or a career while living in my parents basement, I want to be able to provide for myself and my future family.

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.

Having studied computer science and electronics for four years after high school and not being able to get a decent job in my home country, Senegal, dismayed me. When I decided to come to the United States, away from my family, alone and at age 24, I knew it was going to be challenging and costly. However, I did it so I can earn a degree in Business-Information Systems and start a career in the field I love. It has been a circuitous journey, but obtaining

Piedmont College is a college that I'm interested in because I find it to be a school that is one of the best. Attending Piedmont would allow me to obtain a college diploma which would allow me to find a job that suited my intended degree. Along with the academics that Piedmonts provides its location is another key feature that makes me interested in the school. While at Piedmont College I would be able to have the whole of north Georgia open to my hiking wants and needs, the mountains provide a sense of beauty to the school at can be admired. School room sizes is also another reason that I am interested in Piedmont College is the student to teacher ratio. I believe that due to this size, I would be able  to learn more effectively and get to

When I was younger, both my mother and father would do their best to explain the importance of education for a better future, and at a very young age I did my very best to understand. In high school there was a certain eminence to having a job and I was able to enjoy that towards the end of high school; however it quickly changed as I entered the ranks of adulthood. Working at a family restaurant was an interesting experience for me, but it did not compare to what it was like working as a CAPS youth leader it taught me to be independent and valuable lessons I will be able to use throughout life.

No matter where you grow up in the United States, there are many American values we all have in common. In particular, you can group several values together to form a cluster value such as Material Comfort and Education. In order to seek the material comforts Americans want such as financial stability, a car, a home and a retirement saving, many feel you need to seek an education. A formal education is believed to help achieve a higher rate of salary and thus making it affordable to achieve the material comforts one seeks. After 26 years, I have returned to college to seek my degree in accounting in order to advance my career, seek higher wages and afford myself the material comforts I want in life.

When I was a freshman in high school I had a friend whose dad was a manager with the railroad company close to my town. She always had the nicest clothes, coolest bike and best parties. My father worked for a coal company. He did well, but we just didn’t have the cool stuff. I really wanted to have the luxury’s my friend had. College was never pushed on my siblings or me. My parents always told us we could go if we wanted, no worries if we didn’t. I lived in a smaller town so the college attendance rate wasn’t the greatest. People wanted to stay close to home and work for the coal mines or railroad. You could land a fairly decent job at a young age and buy a lot of cool things. That was my plan, once I finished high school I would get a job with the railroad and begin living the good life at 18.

Education has been a special value in my parents’ lives. My parents did not have the opportunity to go to college since they faced numerous financial challenges throughout their lives. Seeing me graduating from High School, was a magnificent feeling for my parents since I was the first person in my family that graduates High School. However, the love and hard work of my family has encourage me to give my best to become an Electrical Engineer.

My parents and I are both immigrants from the wonderful country of Vietnam. I’ve experienced two very different ways of learning from the countries I lived and currently am living in. For example, in Vietnam kids start school at the age of three and by the age of thirteen they can spend approximately twelve hours in school each day. These differences really opened my eyes to the importance of education. Because education is the key to success, I really wanted to work hard in order to get a good one. The more one learns, the more doors of opportunities will open. Since my parents never had the opportunity to have a good education, I feel really blessed that I have so many opportunities for a higher education. These opportunities can open major