Personal goals achievable by education. Brief, lots of reference material!

Essay by casper8106University, Bachelor'sA+, February 2003

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Personal Goals I Will Realize Through the University of Phoenix

"As long as a college education remains an enormous value in the job market and a person's life, the demand for it [a college education] is not going to decline," said Sandra Smith, University of California's assistant vice president for planning and analysis (Berkeleyan, 2000, p.1). She is right, too - the demand for and satisfaction of a college education goes much further than the next paycheck; my college education will fill three key roles in my life (and various other, smaller ones). I will enjoy the learning experience, energize my career, and enhance my lifestyle. These factors combine to provide a powerful motivator for me to make and keep my college both an experience and reality; in the following paragraphs I'll explore these motivators in-depth.

For the first factor, enjoying the learning experience, I can say I will very much enjoy the overall learning experience.

One of the best things colleges do (but do not advertise) is to bring together smart, motivated people in an environment where students can explore and stretch boundaries. My college education will contribute to my character development, enrich my life, and exercise my brain. As Anne Matthews has written in her book Bright College Years:

...an undergraduate education is not so much a pile of notebooks moldering in the bottom drawer, but learning to talk in front of a group, to read and to summarize, to reason on demand, to push yourself late at night. To live and work with people you might never speak to in ordinary life. To think against the grain. To manage time. To not be afraid or rejecting.

She summed up the character development potential of college nicely! A college education also offers the contribution of overall life...