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    the rest of my life. So less like goals and more like values it still took me quite a while to find things that I held important or things I wanted from the future. Actually, I had asked a couple of my old friends to see what their goals were my age, and to see if they had accomplished any of those goals. Through finding out other people’s goals it was much easier to identify my goals, like pursing further education or what I wanted to do with that education. Being a person where my education has

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    Advantageous tools that are essential to measuring one’s progress in life are goals. As Earl Nightingale said, “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” I am an organized person, therefore recording goals, both short-term and long-term, is habitual for me. Happiness is the overall aspiration I have in my life, which ties into the goals I retain for my future education, career, personal life, and community service. My future education is of utmost significance to me. The University of

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    Union County College and I haven’t had much experience in retrospect, nor was i very knowledged of its services and academic offerings. My expectations of how my goals would be viewed were progressively high. Despite the presumption that a common county college wouldn’t grant me the success i wanted, I took my chances with Union County College, applied and waited for my expectations to slowly fail me. This essay will illustrate an idea of how Union County College gave me an astonishing preview of

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    student-athlete that always told myself my only real job would be to find a rich husband that would take me on tropical vacations each year and never have to work a day in my life. When teachers often asked us what we wanted to be I was quickest to have an answer, “a trophy wife” is what I would shamelessly say. As soon as that phase paced, I knew I had to start seeking and setting some realistic goals for myself but wasn’t sure how to start. I knew I needed to go to college, but I wasn 't positive what I

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    diverse cultures and ways of life, and in my own way I have been able to incorporate that in my daily life. My family also made it clear that education would be my ticket to survival later in life. I have seen education not only as a means to survival but as medium, to change the world. Learning about different things, and giving an open mind to others is an essential required for everyone. All my academic, social and financial achievement can be traced to my open-minded personality. I plan to major

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    My goals for math is year are to get a good challenge, to do my best, and try my harderst. I want to succeed and do my best in this class of honors math. I wish to be on time, do my work effiently and transition through subjects easily and gracfully. I want to learn different new things in algrabra and in math. One of my goals in math this year, is to get a good challenge. I want to learn to do new things that challenge me, so I can learn to do better in math. Math is a subject which

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    What are my goals? I have set many for myself over my short 18 years of being alive. “I want to be in the NBA when I grow up or maybe I want to be the president of the United States!” That’s how I would often answer the question when I was younger. However, this question becomes much more serious as I am nearing my final months of high school and preparing to enter college. The obvious answer would be to finish my education. My parents have always stressed the importance of graduating high school

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    My goal as a graphic design is to create works that will cause someone to question everything. I recently have gotten into design, and fell hopelessly in love. Until two years ago, I did not know what a graphic designer was or that I could be one. I was lost, unsure about my future or who I wanted to be, I just knew that I was creative and very kinetically driven. I just wanted to move. A friend of mine introduced me to the book “Watching Words Move”, and suddenly I knew who I was and what I needed

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    I was raised in a military household; both of my parents were in the U.S. Navy. Growing up I was taught proper discipline, a sense of order, and a firm belief in right and wrong. These skills allowed me to be able to conduct my life with a sense of purpose and gave me the confidence to accomplish anything I set my mind to. I myself spent 5 years in the U.S. Navy and I am definitely a better person for it. The military taught me many essential life skills that I feel give me a unique perspective and

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    My High School Goals As a freshman, I am starting to develop many goals in life. These goals are my academic, professional and personal goals. They include getting straight A’s all four years, learning more about music and deciding what I want to have as my job before high school ends. Many people take goals bit by bit. So, there is one goal I’m focusing on- my profession. High school is the time to explore and find interests of what you want to do, eventually leading up to your final decision. Therefore

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