Why I Want To Go To College Essay

There are multiple reasons why someone may want to go to college. Whether it’s to pursue their dreams or prove people wrong. I want to go to college because I want to pursue my dream of majoring in mathematics, math is a passion of mine. I can not say fully what I want to do with my life or when I will find out, but I do know that math is something I want to continue studying. Being Hispanic does not give me a good advantage when it comes to colleges, I have to make sure my voice is heard. What is even more complicated is being a first generation college student, my family really can not help because my parents did not go to college. I have to set the example for my younger brother because he is also going to be a first generation college student

After four years of high school, there is only one goal I have in mind. That goal is to attend college. This is the next big step in my life. All the late nights I stayed up to complete school assignment was for this moment. All my hard work was has lead me to this point in life. College will open a whole new to me. A world where I can meet new people while working to improve my future. Why do I want to attend college though? Well I have three specific reasons for this decision.

I come from a low-income family with a household of eight people. I have my dad, my six siblings, and my mother passed away a few years ago. As a first-generation college student I felt so many emotions. I came from a high school that didn’t prepare me for college courses and that became a problem. What made it worse was that my dad didn’t go to college, so I couldn’t go to him for help. I was scared, depressed, unprepared, I was doing everything on my own. I also felt like I didn’t belong because I believed I wasn’t as smart as the other students or “rich” enough. When I first arrived at UC Davis, I was immediately intimidated. All of the other students seemed so educated and professional and I just compared myself to them without even getting to know them. Let me tell you, getting here wasn’t easy and I know it wasn’t easy for you either, so feel accomplished. You made it! Now that you’re in UC Davis, you will be expected to work hard. Times may get rough, but just remember that help is out there. Take advantage and don’t be afraid or ashamed to seek help.

“What college are you going to attend in the Fall?” “What will your major be?” What do you want to be when you grow up?” These three questions have come up in some shape or form as I was going through the college process my Junior and Senior years of high school. My answers were: “Whatever school gives me the most money. Biology. Pediatrician.” But can I answer all of these questions definitively now? Maybe. Maybe not. All I know is that, I can definitively say: “I attend Macaulay Honors College and Queens College.”

The idea of what God wants us to do comes from many different effects. There’s must a reason for going in that direction and it always is for the glory of God. It also has to do something with our skills and interests. The calling should align with that. More importantly, we learn about our calling somehow.

Growing up I was always told by my parents and other adults’ in my church that I worked well with kids. Then during my sophomore year of college it became evident to me that I had a passion for working with children. But more specifically I felt as though I was being called to work with children who had special needs. I realized I had this passion while sitting in one of my education courses when I wanted to study to be a Special Education teacher. Then while taking the math portion of a test that I needed to take in order to get into the education program at Huntington University I began to realize that teaching was not the field of work God had planned for my life.

I’m attending Dalton State College to increase my potential on my everyday life. I want better job opportunities for me to provide for my family and me. I want to earn more money because those who don’t go to college don't really earn a lot of money than an average college student. I want my knowledge skills to expand so I will make more wise decisions and think critically better. Also I want to really live a better lifestyle than my past. My motivations for coming here are to really make my mother proud. Also from being the first person in my family to go to college had really made my mother proud of me as well as my family.

I remember as a little girl setting my doll babies up in my room and playing pretend school. I had this really big chalk board and plenty of books that I would get from the library.

For anyone, making the decision to go to college and enroll in a public university can be an overwhelming jump, therefore people generally have different expectations. I moved from San Antonio Texas to attend school in Palm Beach in hopes of forcing myself out of my comfort zone and to further explore who I am. As a college student of Palm Beach Atlantic, I expect to strengthen my relationship with Christ, be successful academically, and continue to work hard contribute to the universities woman’s soccer team. I have high expectations for myself considering this new way of life, and I believe being a student here at Palm Beach will help me grow as a person.

As I look over my life and I reflect over the events or experience in my life that influence my academic and my goals here at Colorado Christian University. I am so excited about where God is taking Me. All I can do at this point in my life is to trust and as I do my goals here at Colorado Chritian will help build. I have begun to believe that experience is our biggest teacher. I want my experience here to be bigger than Me. I want to be the light that shine as a become a psycoloist . I want to use the word of God to bring hope .peace, joy so they my clients sees how God's word has healing power. So saying that I know God has me here for reason. My goals as for my academic work is to learn and share all of my experience with people who are

In this essay I am going to take a look at what should be done in terms of getting ready for college as well as when and how. I will also look at when you should be getting ready for college. I mean like at what age they should decide whether they want to go to college or not. Another thing I will look at is whether a student wishes to go to college or not. What I mean by this is that if the student will decide whether he/she wants to enter college or just go straight to their dream job. I will examine also if the student wishes to go into the working field straight after high school or not. I mean that should he/she want to go to their dream job and apply after they get out of high school. I will also show how a student might want to go straight into the working field before going to college. I mean that maybe a student wants to save money by working so they can go to college. These are the thing that I will show how a student is affected by these things.

Imagine one day having it all, a big house, nice vehicle, savings toward college and suddenly, a tragedy hits and you lose it all. My mother became unemployed after 10 years on her job. We lost our home, and was forced to use my college funds in order to survive.

Throughout my entire life, I always strived to do what God has planned for me, even if it means still searching for what I have to do in the following years. I feel my entire life and experiences that accompanied it along the way have guided me towards the direction I am headed towards to serve God to the best of my abilities. The analysis of these experiences has given me the insight into what I can exactly take away from these experiences and what God calls me to do to serve the world and others resulting from this process of introspection. I have learned through myself, that God is extremely active in everything I am involved in. He made me strong enough to endure the experiences I needed to get to my current point in life. I recognize God's sacrifice for us to

God continued to lay the orphan on my heart, but it was not until the winter of my senior year that I truly decided to be a ministry/missions major. Then, I wrote in my journal “I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back….Where, beyond the edge, are you calling me? To a foreign country, or to my neighbors? International something. Orphanages.” With those words, I believe that I was finally admitting the calling that I had felt on my heart for quite some time. Shortly after, I had my first experience with orphan ministry. Over spring break of my senior year, I spent ten days in Kenya serving at a baby centre. There, my heart broke. “My heart is shattered into a million pieces. It really hit me tonight, as I was praying, that there’s sixty some children here without parents, without a family they call their own. And Father, that’s not right. And I can hardly breathe with the knowledge of the pain that they feel. Father, I have to do something. Guide my feet.” It was at that moment, on my last evening in Kenya, that I realized that I needed and wanted to dedicate my life to the cause of the orphan and to loving them. When I returned home, I knew that I needed to be a Missions major, without a shadow of a doubt. Sadly, I was embarrassed to tell most people, as I had a 4.0 and knew that they would look down on me for ‘throwing away my life,’ so I told

When a human being enters this world, God already has a plan or purpose for them. Doctors and firemen save lives, presidents lead a nation and policemen protect communities. Whatever role a person has, it has been written as their purpose in life. It was simply a matter of time for me to realize teaching was my purpose.