My Motivation For Seeking A Masters Degree

What motivated me to enroll at GCU and pursue a degree in higher education is to live my dreams and to also to let my grandfather live to see his wish comes to pass. My grandfather is my biggest motivation growing up with my grandparents from I was nine months old until I migrated to the united states for college give me a great inspiration about education, my grandmother always uses to teach me how to read adult books, when I was just a third grader. She would normally say if I can not read the adults book I must read all the sign words I know and pronouns the big words in syllables. My grandmother plays the mother figure in my life during that time frame, I become a great reader and use to be the honor student in school, two years after my grandmother was admitted to a hospital to do a

When I was 29 I was working two jobs, I had two boys ages 11 and 3, and my total income for that year was below poverty level. My goals at that time were simple. Survive, raise my boys, keep food on the table, and don’t lose it. That’s not the case anymore. I want to increase my income, find a career not just a job, and have a choice to retire. Now that’s what I’m after. Pursuing an Associates of General Studies is now my goal. I’ll be a college graduate by June 2018!

Deciding to pursue a degree was an easy decision because I didn’t choose to further my education for normal reasons. My two reasons on why I went back to school are because of competition and pride. The first being competition comes from the fact that I’m one of twelve children. Sibling rivalry is a very real thing and competing against eleven other individuals to show how you fit in the food chain is difficult. Only three of my siblings have completed their college education two of them graduating with a master in their fields as well as having 3.5 or higher GPA. As for the other sibling, she recently graduated with her bachelors with 3.9 and has been recently accepted into her master’s program. I’m one of three who is currently going to college

I am an emerging software and web engineer and an aspiring security specialist. I hold two years of technical training while simultaneously being a full time employee. In that time I have produced a HIPAA complaint web portal, established electronic reporting, and support a multitude of in-house applications. Being a trained biologist I have returned to school to get formal training on software

I have many motivation of going back to college. First, I learned that you will need an education to accomplish things in this world. Second, I am so ready to have my own daycare center. Finally, most all I must be a role model to my siblings, relatives and goddaughter.

In the fall of 2015 I enrolled in a beginning computer science course at Cosumnes River College to explore the option of working in the computer industry. After a few weeks into the course I knew that this was the field I wanted to become a part of. After discussing my options with my professor, Dr. Markus Geissler, I began to research my options for a degree path that would allow me to use both my strengths and interests. I have the ability to learn quickly, have great people skills, and an overall can do attitude that allows for remarkable adaptation into different environments and when I discovered the options that follow a management information systems degree, I knew I had found the best degree path. Computer science and all of its’ related sub fields are ever growing and changing, I am looking to work in a field that is fit to grow as demands for technology change, as well as challenge me to improve with any and all changes.

Throughout my life I have fought to determine what my meaning in life is. Suddenly one day I found that meaning and it was to help those who needed it the most. As a current employee in the Human Services field, being a caregiver for the mentally and intellectually disabled has made me realize what my meaning in life is. Each and every day I strive to make a difference in a person’s life by assisting them to become more independent. For instance, every night that I pull out of work I smile, because I know I have made a difference in someone’s life other than my own. It is off extreme importance to help the people who cannot assist themselves on their own.

I would like to pursue a combined MD/PhD degree because I want to work in both clinical and laboratory settings studying the mechanisms of disease. My ideal path would be acquiring an MD along with a doctorate in the neurosciences, but I am also interested in biochemistry and pathology as well as a few others. I believe the experience gained obtaining a dual degree would increase my understanding in whichever specialty I choose and build skills related to research like obtaining grants and writing papers for publication. My interest in this program started around the end of my sophomore year. By then, I had been working in research for about two semesters, and while the work was not directly linked to medicine, medically based research had always attracted me more than chemistry or biochemistry. This attraction started before I was even in college.

My senior year of high school I sat in my moms car on the Purdue campus and cried over a pamphlet about veterinary medicine. I had worked myself to the bone for four years of high school and I was changing my mind completely after my acceptance. To many people it may not have seemed like a big deal at such a young age, however I am a planner. I like to know exactly what I am going to be doing and when exactly I will be doing it. To see the future that I had so painstaking planned fall apart was a scary experience. As my mom sat there thinking she asked me: "Samantha, what do you really enjoy? What is your passion? If you could pick any career regardless of the pay what would it be?" This was a tough question for me. I had chosen vet med specifically because of the high salary and my love of animals. The fact of the matter was I did not enjoy science and I really did not enjoy math. My heart was with history, government, and politics. As we drove home that day we bounced around several career options within my chosen fields. Coming into IUPUI I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do, thanks in big part to my internship at a local law office.

Virginia Tech is a demanding university that has high expectations of its students. While VT was a challenge, upon graduation I gained employment with Fidelity’s global security organization and am in the company’s top 20% performance level after my first full year with them. In speaking with my management, Fidelity agreed to support me academically and financially towards a master’s degree with VT. With my undergraduate in information technology, I work full

College, up until my sophomore year of high school, had always been portrayed in my own mind as an overly enthusiastic and admittedly picture-perfect environment. It was, for some reason, a faraway land with smooth sidewalks and clean, crisp landscapes, smiling students and animated professors, cozy (albeit messy) dorm rooms and fashion-forward backpacks. The word itself meant immensely more to me than four years of hard work and the opportunity of earning a degree. It represented an era of independence, something I’d never truly tasted before, and of freedom to learn and to flourish, to create and nurture relationships that would last a lifetime, and to be myself without the polarizing judgment that came along with growing up in a tight-knit community. I couldn’t wait to move out, to buy enormously overpriced textbooks, to stroll around the campus grounds sporting pretty waterfall cardigans and autumn colored nail polish. Football

After graduating from high school, I had a 14 year gap in my education. When I first graduated high school, I inherited a house that I needed to pay for and maintain. In order to do this I got a full-time job immediately upon graduating. For the next several years I worked first in a deli and then doing direct care for developmentally challenged adults. None of these jobs were very fulfilling for me so when I found a job that I really enjoyed, I stuck with it. I have been with my current employer for the past 12 years.

My hope for my grades is that I will continue to strive to do well academically and so therefore I anticipate on making an A in the course. I have taken Advanced Placement courses in high school and managed to make quality grades throughout the classes, so I will strive to carry over that same determination into this course. This class covers topics that I take a great interest in, which I desire to be able to apply. I am currently on a path to gain an Associates degree in Education and my hope is to specifically teach History, which the material from this class also is empowering me to further my knowledge in my future career choice. All these combined reasons are why I am going to strive to learn the most I can, and earn an A for the

What motivates me most to pursue a college degree is opening new doors for career options and inspiring my daughter through my own actions to pursue lifelong learning. I have waited until this point in my life to take this first step for many reasons. I feel that I had a lot of fear of failure that kept me from pursuing this higher learning. I am in the right place mentally at this stage in my life and feel like I can fully invest in this experience and make it truly a success and representation of what I can do. I am also highly motivated by the fact that my career is truly stalled because I am not competition for someone that has equal experience and a degree. I plan to conquer that competition through this process.

In this essay I will identify the reason I want to continue my education through Spring Arbor University. I am currently a registered nurse in an emergency department and have been for almost 6 years. I have been in charge of the unit many times and have enjoyed teaching others. I would like to advance my degree for multiple reasons. The primary reason is that a Master’s degree is distinguishable and shows commitment to the field of nursing. Furthermore, it shows dedication and motivation of an individual to complete a degree that only about ten percent of nurses are able to accomplish.