What I Learned My Success Of Receiving A Degree From A Community College

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

Life skills play an important role for becoming successful professionally and improving our personal lives. Oprah, in her lifeclass video, talks about being responsible for yourself and not waiting for anyone else to change the circumstances around you as a way to develop the skills necessary to flourish. The story of Robert Sherfields first experience at community college, “How Community College Changed My Life” tells of how Mr. Sherfield let go of his past failures and worked toward a better future for himself. The quote by Charles Noble “First we make our habits, then our habits make us!” is great to remember when developing the life skills necessary to continue to grow in all aspects of our lives. The video, story and quote can all be connected, good habits produce responsible people. Responsible people are aware of their

“Returning to school after so many years of not attending, to obtain a degree can be a struggle for many people throughout their life, but it also has its benefits, changes, challenges, and goals. Initially, I had planned to go to college right after high school, but due to many family problems I was unable to. It would be another eight years before I would make the decision to enroll in school. My reasons for returning to school are to higher my education, have a better career/ job, and to better my life, as well as the life of my daughter. Returning to school for me, has had its benefits, changes, challenges, and goals. In this paper, I plan to give you a brief

After barely graduating in the spring of 2017 from Lopez Early College High School, I went straight to my parent’s house not knowing exactly what I was going to do with my life. I knew I had ruined my life after not paying attention to my teachers and counselors about applying to colleges. They said I was a wonderful and intelligent student with a tremendous capacity of succeeding in life. Although everybody thought that about me, I never did. I was constantly under pressure thinking that I had to work in order to support my family economically, so our house was saved. I was also worried about whether my parents were getting divorced after every insignificant argument they had. I had to be an excellent example for my two younger siblings; but even though I tried my best, I never was.

In today’s presentation, Deputy Superintendent shared examples of changes at Waipahu High School to prepare the students for college, career, and citizenship. First, there was an Elephant problem. To improve student learning, there was a sense of urgency to change the systemic stereotypical image of Waipahu students and school. As a principal, he created common experiences for the faculty to affect their values and beliefs to change their perception of the students. Together, the faculty answered the questions “What do we believe and value and what do we believe about our students, our community, and ourselves?” The discussion engaged and motivated the teachers’ emotions of their moral purpose as educators. The discussion, reflection, and collaboration also built a positive, trusting relationship with each other and set high expectation for all the students. Also, throughout the transformation, the school

In the article "7 Steps to Success at Community College." By Joanne Jacobs she discusses the importance of the first year of college, and show 7 steps to be successful while attending community college.

Encouraged by my English teacher, one of the few teachers to ever talk to me about furthering my education, I decided to apply to college during the fall of my senior year. I was reluctant to apply at first because I was never able to envision myself being able to pursue a college education, as a high school diploma was the highest educational level any of my family members ever obtained. Throughout my entire life and time in school, I had never received any guidance on pursuing higher education. In fact, I was completely unaware of the steps I needed to take to further my education. Both my parents dropped out of school before the sixth grade, thus they could not provide any

There are challenges that everyone faces in their lives. Some people deal with difficulties as minor as baking problems, some struggle with the pressure of sports or deal with tremendous amounts of social anxiety. For me, many of the problems I face are related to my academics. This past year has produced some of the most strenuous situations. One of which has been the convoluted choice of which classes to take. School is everything to me, because I look forward to a bright future. So, I take classes that I believe will be most beneficial to what I want to do in life.

Every year thousands of individuals are faced with questions about college. These questions, whether it be committing to a community college or a university or deciding to commute or live on campus, determine the course a students’ life takes while in college. Finding a college that fits each individual person and their unique needs is a difficult task that takes time and patience. I believe revamping the structure of community colleges will benefit students of all ages. Remodeling the acceptance and tuition requirements, as well as ensuring more personal one-on-one time with advisors, will not only make choosing a college easier for students, but will also help improve graduation rates in college students across the globe.

When you first meet this person and start having a conversation with her,you would think that she graduated from a well respected University.But reality she mostly learned from life experiences and from attending a community college.This person is my mom.

Day after day I had always regretted not finishing school. Every day that went by Reminded me how much I needed to complete my education. I would remember applying to jobs and always seeing that dreaded sentence saying “must have High school diploma or equivalent’’. The memory of those days still feel as if it was just yesterday that I was without education. Growing up I never realized how much I would need education in my life. Education is needed to overall make a decent living in order to survive. All of the jobs that I was working at the time were either fast food or hard labor. In my early 20’s I soon figured that there were no short cuts to success. If I wanted to make decent money, I need a decent education. I then started researching how to get my General education diploma. Since I was too old to return to high school to finish that was my only option. I remember it was like yesterday walking onto the Community college property where the test was given to inquire about signing up to take it. Everything on campus looked so well put together in my eyes. I knew at that time that I wanted to be a future college student. I felt like I belonged there, but I was missing one thing a GED to qualify for enrollment. Being in the scenery of an actual college environment showed me just how much I was missing and made me more determined to follow up on my dreams of one-day graduating from college. As I neared the testing centers door my heart started pounding. I noticed that I

Students have hundreds of undergraduate degrees that they can explore from. Through each program, they will become experts in the fields they wish to pursue. In addition, students have hundreds of clubs and organizations that they can join to make connections because as a university, we see the importance of creating well-rounded students. In addition, we seek to educate our students by providing them a foundation of broad disciplinaries and enforcing practices that will help them succeed in school and in the workforce. Furthermore, we pride ourselves on turning our students into future leaders for their communities and for the nation as a whole. We believe that our job is to foster the growth of each individual student and to help students constantly learn each and every day while accounting for their own unique lives and goals. Thus, our ultimate mission is to allow our students to reach their fullest potential as soon as they enter our

There was many difficulties in my prior educational endeavors. There’s not many people that can juggle being a husband, father, full time student, and provider at the age of 20. I don’t want to go into too much detail, just because I don’t want to sound like I’m making excuses, but it’s tough. Paying my own way through college without my mother and father’s support, paying for diapers, milk, groceries, rent (then mortgage), and all the

Over the course of this semester me and our group success have participated in a variety of activities coordinated by the Counselor Mrs. Warren which touch on topics oriented around college, careers, and ourselves as people. These activities taught us life skills that we can apply in our life. For example, some of the activities included learning to do or determine our SMART goals, long term goals, skills/strengths, values and making decisions based on them, pathways to our potential career/education. Therefore, what we learned as a group with Mrs. Warren was how to apply those life skills taught in everyday life, How we would reach point A to point B, and learn more about ourselves as people.

In the midst of my sophomore year, I had been given some beneficial advice on my schooling habits, from my mom. Unfortunately, I didn’t take it into account until I found out how utterly ruinous my education and career path was, due to unsatisfactory grades and my subpar attendance record. I had fallen behind an entire year’s worth of schooling. After dropping out of high school for the second time, I decided to seriously think about my mother’s suggestion.