Why I Want To Pursue My GPA

During my time at Union County College I have been faced with a lot of difficulties. I’ve struggled along the way but one thing I do believe is that I have the power to do better. My GPA has been affected by my personal mistakes. In my past semesters I have let my job take over my life rather than let school be most important. I have also let my personal family problems affect my work ethic. But through my fall 2014, it was most difficult because of March 2014 I lost my father through an unexpected heart attack. Throughout my fall semester I did struggle and cope with my father not being here anymore. I believed that I wasn’t focused enough because I used fall semester as a time to occupy myself rather that time out to deal with my father’s

My Freshman year of college, I was a mechanical engineering student at the George Washington University. It was there that I learned how difficult school could really be. My past schooling experience had not prepared me for this extremely rigorous program. As one of my requirements for the program was a social science, I had registered for a history course my first semester. Unknowingly, I had registered for a third-year history class, clearly not the correct class for a freshman engineering student. I went on to struggle with the amount of work that was assigned for the course including an 18 page research paper. This course, on top of the difficult engineering curricula was extremely challenging. At this point, I also realized that although

As I embarked upon the process of applying for a judicial assistant position in the Utah Second Judicial District, I sought advice. I want to put my best foot forward. A friend’s husband, who is a human resources specialist, volunteered to critique my resume. He suggested I remove my paralegal school grade point average (GPA). He does not think a potential employer will care. Although I respect his subject-matter expertise, I am disregarding that advice.

As an eighteen year old fresh out of high school, I made the mistake of trying to please everyone. I jumped into engineering thinking, "I'm smart, and I can make a lot of money." At the midterm mark, never had I ever felt so stupid. I received an A- in each Chemistry, Physics, and Introduction to Engineering, the three most difficult classes in the first year of this engineering program. So, why did I feel stupid? That's simple, and that doesn't take a degree in anything to evaluate. I had fallen into a realm in which I allowed exterior influences to take over and become a large factor in my decision to declare a major in mechanical engineering. I didn't know what I should switch to, I pondered the thought of changing my major to physical education, but I wasn't sure it was the right move. Praying daily for an answer, I felt as if I was put on hold, until one day, recently, in which I visited my high school. I entered the main office to say hello to previous teachers and peers, and I saw a bowl of bracelets. I thought to myself, "If it's free, it's for me!" I grabbed a bracelet and placed it in my jacket

College life became a nightmare for me when I secured a part-time job along with my classes. There were some few breaches, but that never stopped me from advancing into the future. I never gave up, but rather challenged myself to overcome all those barriers. I chose my classes in a way that my job won’t interfere with them. “Of

From the first day of my freshman year at Livermore Valley Charter Preparatory, I was taught to focus solely on academics and college admissions. Annually, my counselor would confirm that my courses, grade-point average, and SAT scores matched with the college profiles I saved on my list. Over time, I enrolled in classes which I believed correlated with my goal: I enrolled in almost every science class on the campus, and completed most of my graduation requirements before senior year began. This experience allowed for me to become a high achiever. After realizing my abilities, I now aim to complete my Bachelor’s degree in approximately three years, and am confident I will be able to do

Being a first-generation college student, attending college has been difficult. I haven’t had anyone to really push me, therefore it took time to know what I wanted be in life. It also took my family some time to understand my commitment to engineering,

Deciding on what I wanted to pursue in college was an uphill battle. For years I was set on myself becoming a teacher, but as the end of high school creeped closer and closer, I started to doubt my choice of career. Although my love for children was still prominent, I found myself intrigued by social issues more then anything else. I felt the need to somehow use my existence to help assist in reaching the solution to these pressing problems. This realization is what eventually led me to my educational goals. Firstly I plan to obtain an Associates degree in Communication from Montgomery College. After that I want to transfer to American University to get a Bachelors in Public Relations and a minor in Public Administration and Public Policy.

Jen Johnson once stated, “ High school is not only a place for education, but also a place for students to participate in various sports. Most students who participate in sports are just as 5active in the classroom.” This is relevant since as the quote states above, everyone needs to focus on education just as much as sports. School is not just concerning sports, but also having higher education. Schools need to hold athletes to a certain GPA because no one can depend on going ‘pro’. They also need a good GPA to go to college and achieve a superior job. Having an appropriate GPA also shows that the young adult has commitment to something.

Anyone who has completed any college courses can attest that college itself introduces new difficulties, including new class structures, expectations, living situations. Ordinarily, these changes contribute to many students, notably at the beginning, leading to them underperforming. While I experienced these changes, the factors and adversities that contributed to my final GPA being just shy of a 3.0 are not part of a typical student’s college experience.

At the time my undergraduate journey commenced, I was so excited, knowing the degree I wanted to pursue and the field I wanted to go into upon graduation. I thought “how hard can college actually be?” Boy, was I completely wrong. How naïve was I to believe that my practically 4.0 GPA in high school would reflect how my undergraduate would go. Early on during my undergraduate career, a personal event greatly impacted my studies and pulled my focus away from

Some individuals shine under stress while other individual fail at it. The most stressful time I underwent during my undergrad was when I found out that the master’s program that I wanted to attend was asking for a higher grade point average than what I had. The business program that I wanted to attend was asking for a minimum of 3.20 grade point average in order to be able to get into the program. During the first two years of my education I did not take school seriously and because of that it effected my overcall grade point average however, I found out that the master program is only looking at the last ninety units of your undergrad. I felt relieved and quickly started counting up my overall grade point average not taking the first two years of school. I had a 2.70 grade point average counting only the last sixty units of my undergrad work. I was really upset because I had eight classes left (Thirty-two units) to take before graduation. I would have had to get really high grades in the winter quarter in order to get accepted into the program. The stress was overwhelming because I either got good grades or I would not continue my education. I worked forty plus hours a week and attend school fulltime getting nearly perfect grades seemed an impossible task to me. The stress of obtaining good grades during the upcoming quarter motivated me to reach new heights that I believed I could have never reach because I did not have enough time to focus on school.

When i first started at Trine, I felt strongly that learning was important to my growth and development but I have never acted on this feeling ; but, I felt that i would finally change from when I was in middle and high school when I entered college. I feel that i can learn basically anything, and that limitations on my learning that set on myself would be gone. If I open myself up to learning and give myself to my studies, I know I could fuel my potential to its fullest. I know that learning increases my options and gives me the means to respond to the multitude of opportunities in the engineering career. My perspective when i first started was that i was going to change from the past; studying, taking note, participation in class, I planned to do all of that and I wanted to do all of these so i could improve in academia. In observing my first few weeks of entering my classes it shows that i had been showing changing from my past, I took notes in almost everyone of my classes, i was engaged in the classroom activities, and I paid close attention to anything the university professors’ said. One can never tell when it will be necessary to suddenly shift gears and proceed in a new direction, but I was making progress that not only i could tell but my peers and more importantly my family. I did want to pursue a major course of engineering, and the studies that usually associate with it came easy to me from math to working with designing programs but i didn’t excel in because of

Practically, to complete all of your major’s requirement and achieve your undergraduate’s bachelor degree is not a simple matter. It requires a passionate heart and lots of effort in the process. In general, university expects its graduates to have certain kind of skill and mentality that high school or college graduates may not possess. Over 2300 graduated students have participated in a survey by AGCAS regarding university’s expectation over its graduates, and “over one third of respondents believe that the university has the main responsibility in preparing them for working life.” As a Seattle University’s student majoring in Electrical Engineering, in order for me to secure my future working life and mingle with future work

I’m not afraid to admit that I wasn't always the most intelligent person in my class, but when I graduated high school in 2016, I knew I wanted to further pursue my education. The fall of that year I enrolled in school at Riverside Community College. I trudged onto the campus with a general idea of what school would be like. Shortly after I noticed there was such a large amount of pressure in the courses that I became discouraged. The professor I had in a communications class gave a motivational speech that changed the way I perceived college. There was no concealing the fact that college wasn't easy to wrap my head around, but as I was introduced to the courage I needed to succeed in school, I rose to great heights.