edtrussell
Feb 16, 2007
Scholarship / What specific goals do you hope to achieve? - Scholarship Essay [NEW]
The question is, What specific goals do you hope to achieve at Western Oregon University to help you succeed in life?
I am poor and could really use a scholarship! I would appreciate your help.
I would rather you be too harsh than not enough :)
I'm not sure about the title, intro, conclusion or much in between!
Thank you
Goals for Success
It is hard for me to express how excited I am to go to Western Oregon University. While I am here I have three goals that I believe will be achieved through the University. First, I want to help people succeed. Second, I want to be able to have time to volunteer. The last goal I have is that I can make enough money to support myself while still being able to work towards my first two goals.
How am I going to be able to achieve those goals by going to WOU? I can achieve all of those goals with a degree in education. About three years ago I was asked to lead the youth group at my church. I didn't know what I was doing for a while and I almost threw up a few times I was so nervous, but I got through it and found out I enjoy teaching. It wasn't long before I was giving guitar lessons and tutoring in Spanish. I knew that I wanted to teach but now I needed to know what I would teach. I put off taking math for a long time, so long in fact that I had to retest to get in to a class. I think I forgot more that I had learned so far, if that's possible! When I did get in to the class the teacher taught it in such an amazing way. He taught so clearly and efficiently, it made learning easy. I knew then that I wanted to teach math and teach it just like him, in that way I can help people to succeed.
I can imagine you sitting there reading this and wondering, "He wants to have time to volunteer, how much time does he need? It only takes a few hours to serve soup down at the mission!" Well, the soup kitchen is great, but what I have in mind is a little more long distance than a drive downtown. What I'm talking about is Mexico. Over the last four years I have spent a little more than a month in Mazatlan, Mexico. While I am there I go out to different colonias, that's what they call the rural towns, with a team of about ten to fifteen people. In the colonia we distribute food and clothes, cook meals, paint buildings, put on dramas, and share testimonies. I have been learning Spanish and it would be great to be able to go a little more long term over the summer while school is out.
I think after spending so much time and money on an education that it should be worth something when you are ready to use it! It would be pretty hard to help people succeed and to spend a lot of time volunteering if I had to scrounge around looking for ways to support myself. I understand that no one ever got rich by being a middle school math teacher! I'm not looking for cash prizes, just what I need to get along.
Why do I think I can accomplish these goals? Well, there has been a reoccurring theme over the past few years of my life; I've got to believe. It has been very important for me to stand firmly on the faith that good things will happen. The bad things are just minor setbacks leading up to the great things to come. The way I learned about this faith is by failure, and I have failed a lot. My senior year in high school I was arrested and expelled. When I was able to go back I repeated my senior year and graduated second to last in my class. Things were not going good! After graduation I worked for about a year before enrolling at PCC. Needless to say I wasn't the greatest student, so it didn't surprise me at the time that I was failing half my classes. So, at the end of my first term of college, poof there goes my financial aid. Now not only were things not going good, they were going really bad! That slap in the face was the point at which the slope started to increase and I started working my way back uphill. It took a few years to get some financial aid back but when it did come back I didn't waste that opportunity. It has been slow and a long time coming but now I can say that I believe in myself. I can accomplish these goals because I believe I can.
The question is, What specific goals do you hope to achieve at Western Oregon University to help you succeed in life?
I am poor and could really use a scholarship! I would appreciate your help.
I would rather you be too harsh than not enough :)
I'm not sure about the title, intro, conclusion or much in between!
Thank you
Goals for Success
It is hard for me to express how excited I am to go to Western Oregon University. While I am here I have three goals that I believe will be achieved through the University. First, I want to help people succeed. Second, I want to be able to have time to volunteer. The last goal I have is that I can make enough money to support myself while still being able to work towards my first two goals.
How am I going to be able to achieve those goals by going to WOU? I can achieve all of those goals with a degree in education. About three years ago I was asked to lead the youth group at my church. I didn't know what I was doing for a while and I almost threw up a few times I was so nervous, but I got through it and found out I enjoy teaching. It wasn't long before I was giving guitar lessons and tutoring in Spanish. I knew that I wanted to teach but now I needed to know what I would teach. I put off taking math for a long time, so long in fact that I had to retest to get in to a class. I think I forgot more that I had learned so far, if that's possible! When I did get in to the class the teacher taught it in such an amazing way. He taught so clearly and efficiently, it made learning easy. I knew then that I wanted to teach math and teach it just like him, in that way I can help people to succeed.
I can imagine you sitting there reading this and wondering, "He wants to have time to volunteer, how much time does he need? It only takes a few hours to serve soup down at the mission!" Well, the soup kitchen is great, but what I have in mind is a little more long distance than a drive downtown. What I'm talking about is Mexico. Over the last four years I have spent a little more than a month in Mazatlan, Mexico. While I am there I go out to different colonias, that's what they call the rural towns, with a team of about ten to fifteen people. In the colonia we distribute food and clothes, cook meals, paint buildings, put on dramas, and share testimonies. I have been learning Spanish and it would be great to be able to go a little more long term over the summer while school is out.
I think after spending so much time and money on an education that it should be worth something when you are ready to use it! It would be pretty hard to help people succeed and to spend a lot of time volunteering if I had to scrounge around looking for ways to support myself. I understand that no one ever got rich by being a middle school math teacher! I'm not looking for cash prizes, just what I need to get along.
Why do I think I can accomplish these goals? Well, there has been a reoccurring theme over the past few years of my life; I've got to believe. It has been very important for me to stand firmly on the faith that good things will happen. The bad things are just minor setbacks leading up to the great things to come. The way I learned about this faith is by failure, and I have failed a lot. My senior year in high school I was arrested and expelled. When I was able to go back I repeated my senior year and graduated second to last in my class. Things were not going good! After graduation I worked for about a year before enrolling at PCC. Needless to say I wasn't the greatest student, so it didn't surprise me at the time that I was failing half my classes. So, at the end of my first term of college, poof there goes my financial aid. Now not only were things not going good, they were going really bad! That slap in the face was the point at which the slope started to increase and I started working my way back uphill. It took a few years to get some financial aid back but when it did come back I didn't waste that opportunity. It has been slow and a long time coming but now I can say that I believe in myself. I can accomplish these goals because I believe I can.