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    I Am Pursuing A Career

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    observed his work I never understood the immense power to change lives a simple piece of paper hanging from his wall provided. Like many high school graduates, I undertook a university education to assist in finding my a way to make a personal impact through professional work. I was fortunate enough to pursue that education and achieve my undergraduate degree through the University of Idaho. While attending, I took it upon myself to undertake classes that could help me understand his profession and help

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    Statement on Approach to Teaching and Advising Much has evolved since my initial years at South Dakota State University when I had no teaching appointment. During those initial years I took advantage of any available opportunity to increase my college level teaching experience mostly in the form of guest lectures in ABS 704 and other courses where I lectured on Plant Functional Genomics and Abiotic Stresses. Based on this experience, I developed Independent Study opportunities for interested students

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    in real-life experience, and practice writing in APA and using statistical methods (Landrum & Davis, 2014). Within the next year I plan to either talk directly to faculty members about getting involved in research or go to the research lab in the education building to find research opportunities. If possible, I would also like to maybe head my own research project. Work Experience Chapter 8 of Landrum and Davis (2014) talks about the benefits

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    The transition from expert registered nurse to novice nurse practitioner includes inherent challenges in adjusting from one practice role to the next (Barnes, 2015). There are both internal and external factors that combine to create this difficulty in role transition. External factors that define the role of nurse practitioner contribute to this challenge by creating role stress. Internal conflicts regarding new roles create role strain (Dreher and Smith, 2017). These two sets of factors taken

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    Personal Reflection

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    Many people would like to make a difference, not only in their own life, but in others’ lives as well. Deepak Chopra once said, “Everyone has a purpose in life…a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.” All of us, at one point in our lives, have to make the difficult decision of the goals we want to work towards. We all have certain

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    1. How have you served as a role model to your peers? As someone who came from a family that lives in poverty, I have been plagued by a statistic that told me that working the amount of hours I needed to support myself while being in school made me substantially less likely to graduate from college than my peers. I’ve spent most of my college career working towards proving that statistic wrong. Not only did I want to prove to myself that I would beat the odds and graduate, but I was going to graduate

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    The overarching goal I hope to achieve from pursuing a degree in Industrial/Organizational psychology is to gain experience from conducting research and develop an in depth understanding of the field of I/O psychology. Completing a Master 's of Applied Science in Industrial/Organizational psychology at the University of Waterloo will allow me to reach this goal as I know that research is an important aspect of the program. Additionally, the Master’s of Applied Science will prepare me to either pursue

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    One of the first steps toward applying to a graduate school is looking into what interest you in each school. This report discusses three different graduate programs in different graduate schools that offer with admission requirements that include, but not limited to, grade points average (GPA), graduate record examinations (GRE), Personal Statement, and transcripts. Moreover, it also provides information in regards of the intangibles of each program such as costs, location, and funding like assistanceships

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    There comes a time in someone’s life when certain events don’t turn out the way they expect them to. This is the story about a time in my life that I did not anticipate happening. I knew what career I wanted to pursue when I was eight years old. My parents, both being chiropractors, helped me decide what I wanted to do for a living. With the knowledge of what I wanted to do, I knew early on that I needed to perform very well academically in order to succeed. Throughout the years, I became a high-honor

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    Until recently, the common social and institutional norm in my country was that women were only suited to work in specific fields and professions. Although the mentioned norm has significantly diminished in large metropolitan cities and the modern urban, it still resides in several other regions of Saudi Arabia. Thus, and although these social and institutional norms have loosened and Saudi women have begun to enter in professions that were previously assigned for men only, such a change has yet

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