The Honors College

I am currently majoring in Actuarial Science and double minoring in Economics and Business Administration because I believe those two programs will best benefit my choice in career. I am very close to being a semester ahead of my advising path. My plan is to pass my first actuarial exam by the end of my junior year as most actuarial internships require the passing of at least one exam. My focus my senior year will lie on the second exam. I hope to have completed the second by graduation as most Actuarial

experiences they had while on their retreat. I would like to have those awesome memories as well! For most of my first year in college I felt lost and alone; I was not really involved with clubs or organizations until my second year at Miami Dade Honors College and I don’t want to have that same experience while attending FIU. I know that being part of the Honors College at FIU will benefit me because of the tight knit community, but it is always good to have friends and communicate with people from

As I was growing up I never thought about going to college, I came to the United States unaware of what an S.O.L, the SAT, honors, AP and DE classes were. I didn’t know anything about this. There was only one college I knew and that was James Madison University because it was everywhere in the city. When I was a freshman, history was my favorite subject it was just so fun to learn about the history of each country. When it was parent conference day my teacher told my mom that since i’m so good in

The Mass Maritime Academy is a college that will put me on track to achieve my ambitions. I am thinking of a future in the United States Armed Forces, and it appears that the Academy will help me to decide how I want to go about this. I also know that attending the Academy will prepare me for an excellent career with whichever major I decide to pursue. When I was 11 years old, I spent a week in Washington, Maryland with a family friend. His name was Colonel Bruce Wescott, who worked at the Pentagon

People feed off of other people. The Ohio State Business Honors Learning Community is a fantastic opportunity to surround myself with other excelling business majors. First of all, I will be able to provide a broad set of interests from theatre, to music, to sports, and to discussion. My diverse background will allow me to reach out to many members of the community both on the business level and the personal level. Along with my broad set of interests, I can bring an up and coming major, (Information

I grew up in the Lake Orion area. I attended Pine Tree Elementary from kindergarten to fifth grade, and Oakview Middle School from sixth to eighth. Throughout my years of school, I have always been in advanced courses, and along with my interest in math, I have a spot in my heart for chemistry and physics. I have two older brothers, Nate and Brad, who also attended Lake Orion schools and are currently working as machinists together in Sterling Heights. My parents are happily married and continue

that I was meant to be a pediatrician. I plan to attend the University of Georgia, Mercer University, Charleston Southern University or Clemson University in the fall of 2017 majoring in biology/pre-medicine. I am currently a member of National Honor Society and National

​Throughout my life I have had the honor and privilege of helping people whenever the opportunity presented itself. After college, I aspire to become an Obstetric Surgeon; specialize in Fetal Surgery. When I was in the fifth grade my entire class did a project on what we all wanted to be. Upon my research, I discovered the entity of a surgeon. I knew from that moment on that it was the career for me. During my high school journey, I have cumulatively volunteered and interned in the Catawba Valley

academic honesty through an honor system, requiring each student to pledge that work submitted for a given assignment has been done without illegitimate assistance or unauthorized appropriation. Many schools are now focusing on taking steps to reinvigorate their honor code policies and evaluate the chances of implementation of honor codes for the first time. According to McCabe, Trevino & Butterfield, 1999, “Recent research demonstrates that well-implemented honor codes can be effective in

have to really work on for a long period of time and have motivation for. My goal is to maintain a 3.33 GPA for my first semester of college and hopefully for my next four years as well. Why specifically a 3.33 GPA? This is because I plan on joining the honors program next semester and to do that, a 3.33 GPA is exactly what I need to attain. In order to stay in the honors program for the next four years, I need to keep that 3.33 GPA and not let it drop. This goal is a great one and is definitely affected