Becoming Who I am Supposed to Be As a student at Sonoma State University, I decided to declare my major in human development because it covers a broad range of subjects like psychology, anthropology, and sociology. Then, at the end of my junior year in college, I decided to declare a minor in early childhood studies. To complete the early childhood studies minor, I have taken classes that teach concepts such as child development and how to assess the different behavioral patterns and the stages…
Statement of Purpose Applying for : Master 's in Industrial engineering for Fall 2011 When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, “As much as the living are to the dead” ,aptly defines the importance of education in deciding how successful a human will turn out to be irrespective of where he started from. Science has always been instrumental in easing the hardship of human existence throughout the history of mankind. With this fascination I took…
her from reaching her dreams and obtaining her goals is amazing and I can only hope to be half as great of a psychologist, and woman, that she was. She had many obstacles in her life, one of them being how difficult it was for her to receive her graduate training, and she wanted to ensure that other students of color wouldn’t have such a hard time with the same issue. I am very grateful for her involvement in that topic and its betterment because it makes it easier for me, and many others like…
Snell-Rood from the Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior (EEB) program. I am applying to the PhD program at the University of Minnesota because of the opportunity it offers understanding the impacts of human-induced changes on ecology. My goal of pursuing a graduate degree is something that I have been focused on throughout my undergraduate experience at Boise State University (BSU). A path to achieving this goal is reflected in my approach to education, including my dedication to the undergraduate…
Fresno Pacific university is a non-profit Christian university founded by the Mennonite Brethren Church as a post-secondary school in 1944 (Fresno Pacific University, 2016). The school’s current student population is estimated around 3500, and a majority of students are either enrolled as traditional undergraduate, Degree Completion or are in a Graduate program. The paper provides an overview of college design, how the hierarchical structure of communication works within the university and in…
your field?” He emphasized the importance of planning ahead, and making sure that graduate school was a goal to keep in mind. He stated that a psychology degree can get a job. However, the most fun and interesting careers in this field requires graduate degrees. “If you’re going to do it, you 're pretty much going to have to go to graduate school. It’s okay for jobs, but it is not great for jobs without the graduate stuff.” He stated that many people he has seen at City College are…
take her lunch break the same time every day. During her lunch break was also the same time the Karen, the mail women would drop off the mail. Since I knew that the mail was dropped off, I knew I would not be able to concentrate for the rest of the school day not knowing if my acceptance or denial letter was sitting at home. Finally, one day the response to the text message was “yes, it is here, see you when you get home,” Although, I wanted to open the letter myself I told my mom she had to…
What’s next? If you would’ve asked me a month ago what I wanted to be, I would have said to work for Social Services as a Social Worker. Since Fall 2015 started, I got a Social Work class. Since the first week of school, the professor had said that we were going to have to do volunteer work in the Social Work area. My first choice was to go volunteer at Social Services as a Social Worker; didn’t have luck. As the days went by, the first page of my volunteer packet was due, and I still didn’t…
hone over the course of working for a variety of nonprofits that I found were built into the social work curriculum in this school. I would see many instances in which the art of communication became fundamental in my work in the health system and realized then, that I had made the right decision in applying to the social work school. Fear and uncertainty before starting school had me abstain from applying initially to the dual program and because of this I decided in my first semester I gave…
I always knew there would be a point in time where I would have to choose a career and I've always had an interest in being something medical so I decided I would research about how to become an anesthesiologist. The reason I choose this topic is actually kind of a dumb reason. I've always was interested in a medical job but what really got me thinking of having a medical job was because of the show Grey's Anatomy. It is a show about surgeons/doctors in a hospital. I always knew I probably…