Career Goals

In high school, I never imagined attending the nation's number one public research institution. It was something that no one from my community had done, and the lack of representation from others in my community seemed to disencourage me from even applying. It was not until my senior year of high school that I began applying to colleges, when my older sister encouraged me to apply to the University of Michigan. She saw potential in the things that I could accomplish, but even her encouragement lacked to make me understand how I could be admitted into this predominately white institution. However, I applied early action and was ecstatic when I was accepted.

“Sport is the force that unites and empowers us to be better, no matter how you look, what you believe or what language you speak.” These words of Olympian Simone Biles illustrate my life-long passion for sports and the science behind it. I had been an athlete all my life and planned on continuing my track and field career at the collegiate level before a critical injury switched my focus from athletics to academics. When I began my studies at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, I knew my future would involve helping athletes grow to their fullest potential in strength, athleticism, and overall health. Having majored in Health Science with a focus in Health and Wellness Promotion and a minor in Nutrition, I would now like to concentrate on Strength and Conditioning.

My mother battled mental illness during her life. Unfortunately she lost her battle in September 2013. Since her surprising death I have soul-searched and researched ways to help others like my mother.That introspection has brought me to your program, Master of Science in Mental Health Counseling.

My short-term career goals are to complete nursing school, pass the National Council Licensure Examination-Registered Nurse (NCLEX), and become a registered nurse. I start at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing this fall; I am expected to graduate in the spring of 2018. I am interested in becoming a pediatric nurse at first. My long-term career goals would be to specialize in either pediatrics or neonatal nursing.

I’ve always had a passion for children. When I was little I use to always want to work in a day care. When I got my first childcare job, I realized I loved kids and wanted to do more that just work at a daycare. I felt that I would learn a lot from this degree, so that it would benefit me in my new found loved career. Having this undergraduate degree will help me strive in the direction that I would like to go in life.

My career goal is to receive my doctorate degree in Occupational Therapy. I would like to work with geriatric population because they are more vulnerable to disabilities from chronic illness that results in them being put into nursing facilities. I want to specialize my education on physical disabilities. I have experience working with the geriatric patients who are physically disabled and I hope to help them keep their independence. My goal is to help geriatric patients gain valuable skills in order to keep their independence and have the ability to live at home. As an occupational therapist, I will help patients do things they want to do through therapeutic methods of everyday living. I would teach them new ways of doing daily actives after suffering from a disability. For example, a patient who had a stroke, I would reteach this individual how to hold items, how to button shirts, and so on. I would prefer to work at patients’ home or in a clinic setting; however, I am open to working wherever my skills would be needed. Since I want to work in the patients’ home, my main goal is to evaluate and change their home, so it is easier for them to stay independent. I have an interest in working with patients who have developmental delays; however, I need to observe an OT specialized in that field to know for certain if that is something I would like to specialize in.

Resources and support are available to me and that I will use to help obtain my career goals are professional connections/resources and institutional connections/resources. My professional connections include and atmospheric chemistry professor at Emory University and a mentor who recently left Emory University to go work at the census bureau in Washington D.C. Through the professor at Emory I have access to a lot of the universities resources such as access to scientific journals, I can attend seminars, I can ask for opportunities for research, I can also ask for opportunities for networking through her colleagues, I have a friendly professional who I can ask questions, and I have a professional reference with whom I have done work with. With

I am currently working on earning APE in mechanical engineering at SLCC. After earning an APE, I will transfer to the University of Utah to earn B.S. in mechanical engineering. Afterward, I will work on getting an MBA. I want to be a licensed mechanical engineer in every state, and I will work day and night to have a good reputation and make my name known so I can start my own engineering firm one day. I am pursuing this path because I want to gain the practical experience that I can use in pursuing my ultimate career goal, which is earning Ph.D. to teach people and do research. I want to help, support, and prepare students to do better in their careers. Ever since I was a kid, I was the child who wanted to know more, the child that keeps asking

Managing my hectic schedule can be very tiresome, but I still managed to stay motivated through it all. Overwhelming myself will only make me have a mental break down. Having a calendar to stay up to date with each assignment helped me big time. On my free time, I would do homework before it’s actually do so I wouldn’t have to really worry about it. I must give a big thank you to my peers and counselors who accompanied me through some of the obstacles that I faced. I’ve set personal goals for each and every assignment that comes with the course. The resources that I used is academic service; I wanted to make sure that the errors that I’ve made before won’t ever interfere with my future

Ultimately, my personal career goal is to help elucidate the molecular pathways of neurological disorders, while also being able to apply my knowledge directly to patients. Thus, a course plan within the Molecular Basis of Medicine (MBM) foundational area, combined with a Neuroscience, Behavior, and Cognition application, would be perfectly tailored to my interests. Though I have experience in bench work at the Champagne Lab, and bedside work at NYPH Weill/Cornell and TCC Health Care respectively, I am truly interested in the bench-to-bedside approach taught extensively throughout the MBM program. The Stanford Neurosciences Institute would provide a myriad of exciting opportunities for pursuing further research into the molecular biology and

My ultimate career goal is to obtain a position as a health care executive or director in a respectable health care facility. However, to achieve my objective, I must complete my master’s degree in business administration. Although, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2015), states that such a position requires a bachelor’s degree and less than five years of experience for an entry level position, which I have, I would like to further my education and increase my changes of obtaining and securing the position.

My short-term career goals including graduating with a sport management degree that will enable me to excel in the next part of my life. I would also like to be excepted into one of the top law schools that offer a sport law program and be an intern at the NCAA after graduation. Ohio University’s sport management program will help me do this by giving me the education and opportunities to achieve these goals. As a freshman, I was able to start a club for women in sport management which created more opportunities for myself. I was able to meet with more faculty who wanted to learn about the club and also meet other females in the sport management program and create a network for ourselves. Through this club, I was selected to be a part of a

Both my personal and professional goals animate me and motivate me to pursue and finish my degree. The personal and professional are fundamentally interconnected. Personally I aim to live a life filled with a sense of meaning, and growth. These terms are purposefully broad in nature so that I have space to specify how they manifest themselves in a variety of ways. These broad personal aims become more tangible, and are matched, through more exact professional goals. Currently, I am working with a start-up charter school project serving the needs of high-school dropouts. This aligns with my sense of meaning because service to others, particularly through education, is valuable to me. Within the next five years I would like to found my own social entrepreneurship project. I do not see a world in which accomplishing this, and my broader aims, is

Politics is defined by Webster dictionary as, “the activities, actions, and policies that are used to gain and hold power in a government or to influence a government.”  I aim to one day work in our government and influence lives in a positive manner. I want to help create a sound government in any way possible. Intellectually, I yearn to learn more about the processes in government, to overall aid in my professional goal of being a successful politician.

In the coming years, my educational goals will be coming my undergraduate program in May 2017 and then beginning a Masters program for secondary English. My passion for teaching has always been centered around with working for disadvantaged students in low income schools. Growing up in a low income household myself, I know the necessity of education and how it can bring you out of poverty. My long term career goals is to create a curriculum that combines culturally relevant practices into mainstream teaching because I believe through experience, students learn the best when they can relate it to themselves. My plans are to, if accepted into the MAT program at Alaska University, attend the program and then find a school in the state to work