Why did you decide to come to college?

I decided to come to college because I want a good dependable job. I wish to become a band director and make my way up to become successful and have a job that I love to go to. I came to college to get the degree and experiences to make me a successful director. I wish to acheive a BME which is a bachalors of music education. I hope to get a job and then if needed go back to college and acheive a masters in music. This would help my pay increase and my choice of where I would work. My career I disire needs this education and much more. This is why I am here and working to acheive a degree.

Let Teen-Agers Try Adulthood - Leon Botsein

Botsein was talking about how that teen-age years (17 and 18 years old) in high school and how that the school time before college is to long and thinks teen-agers should start their lives and hopefully go to college and acheive a degree and start their carrers as soon as they can. I think the time in high school and grade school is set the right age because kids have to mature up and high school does that. I think that it is the right time in age for those people to choose to go to higher education or take on a job. His audience was structered by his statement let them take a shot at adult hood a little early.

Where College Fails Us Questions and Review

        My experiences in college has been very beneificail to my life. My classes help me better understand the thought process and my study and thinking skills have improved emensly. I can think through the problems on my own much better than I did in high school. My teachers her at missouri western are very friendly and helpful. I can read a passage and understand and comprehend it better. I can gather my thoughts and put them on paper much better than in high schoool.
       
      My study habbits and my time managment has increased much more than if I would not have came to college. Durind high school I was a major procrastinator. I now put my school in high priority and get my work done and on time as much as I can.

       The only class that I take that I think has no major meaning is my university 101 class. In the class we do not have any real meaning it feels like. The teacher just talks about things us students should already know and the teacher is older so he cannot relate as eaisly to us as a younger one could.

       I decided to go to college to further my education and acheive a degree to be a band director for a school in the future. I wll become financialy stable and have a good life doing something I enjoy for a living.

Self Evaluation of Task Two

1. what is the thesis for the paper?
My thesis for my paper was the troubles of being a pregnant and then a mother in high school.

2.what was the most helpful advice you recieved from your peer evaluation?
During my peer evaluation the most helpful advice was probably to have better flow threw out the paper.

3.what was the most helpful information you recieved in class for your paper?
The most helpful information was when to have more or less details.

4. How many drafts of this paper do you think you wrote?
I did three different drafts first the rough draft that I used a outline to help then a rivised version then the final.

5.what would you differently with this paper to make it more effectively?
I would have done better note taking during the interview because I know we had a lot more disscused then what I had wrote down.

6.What are you most pleased with about this paper?
I like the topic of my paper and I like the stories that I was told. Overall it was pretty interesting.

My interview

What questions still remain?
She is still in college and I want to know the benifits she gets after the education.

How did it go?
The interview went very well and it was very comfurtable.

Where did you conduct it? 
I interviewed my mom at her house.

What did you learn?
I learned about her high school experience and how her schooling is going now.

How do you intend to transition to the writng process?
I transitioned it by stating how it all went for her.

What concerns do you have?
I first had a problem conducting the paper and organization and I hope that it is easier to read.

How do you expect to overcome them?
I overcame them by writing a outline.

Becoming Educated Question 1

 In the short story "Becoming Educated" she explains at the end that when you belive something is right but when someone smarter and more educated complicates it you have to prove the something is how you say. In my education this is very important because when a director at band tells me something I had played was wrong but I know is right I must explain my thoughts of it. Education is very important to me because with out my education I will not get the job I disire and I would not gain my Degree and my college experiences.

Response for interview process for Task Two

        My interview went very well and I learned a lot more of my mothers educational history and learned about her experience when she was pregnant with me during her junior year of high school. During the interview I took notes on the answers of the questions I had wrote down before. When I first got to my moms house I first played with their new dog and we had dinner. I started the interview right after. The interview was very easy going since she is my mother. My mother can relate to me since she is a younger parent. Over all the interview was a success. It was easy going and I hope I have enough information for my paper.

Task Two interview questions with response

1.Q what high school did you attend? what was your graduation date?
A. Odessa High School - 1992

2.Q did you have any unusual circumstances that effected your educcation?
A. I was pregnant my junior year and got married. My education was more difficult to achieve with school, a job, a husband, and a baby to care for. I knew an education was essential to be able to support my family so I woked hard to acheive my goal of good grades and a high school diploma.

3.Q did you have any problems with your teachers when you were pregnant and trying to acheive your diploma?
A. I did have problems with my biology teacher. While I was pregnant we had to disect a cat. My doctor told me that I could not participate due to fameldahide. He assigned me a large research assighnment instead of the lab. I worked very hard on the assighnment. and when it came time to turn in the paper he refused to acccept it stating "that it is not fair to the other students that you got yourself in trouble so I am going to give you an F this semester." My family went to the principal and he had three other teachers grade the paper and the teacherhad to accept the average grade
          Another example was when I was eight months pregnant my P.E. teacher was trying to force me to run a mile. I refused and stated that I would glady walk a mile instead. She sent me to the principal's office I explained the situation and was allowed to walk the mile instead.

4. Q Did you seek higher education following high school?
A. I went to UNM for two semesters, attended LPN school at lexington, and now currently working towards my RN degree. It is very odd that I am still in college and now I have a child in college as well.

5.Q what is your goal you wish to acheive in regards to your education?
A. I am actually happy being an LPN working in the clinic and doing case managment at lexington hospital. I worked med-surg for four years prior to changing positions. I love nursing and my goal is to have a BSN. I probably have a year until I reach my goal. Not much will change in my current job, but it will increase my wage significantly.