Sunday, February 27th, 2011
Is there a foolproof method for finding the ideal subject for your college application essay? Unfortunately, no. But here’s a way you can start looking.
The Self-Interview is a reliable technique for uncovering areas in your life that will make excellent topics for your college application essay. All you have to do is honestly answer the following questions, jotting down the answers as fully and expansively as you can. Don’t edit yourself, allow each question to take you where it will. Then read your answers back and see if they don’t stimulate a compelling essay subject.
1. What’s the smartest thing you’ve ever done?
2. The dumbest?
3. The most innovative?
4. The bravest?
5. The most memorable?
6. The most valuable to another person or people?
7. What’s your biggest achievement?
8. Your biggest disappointment?
9. How did you learn from both?
10. The title of your autobiography would be…
11. Is there anything you would fight and die for? What? Why?
12. Any person? Who? Why?
13. What’s your dominant positive quality? How do you think it was developed within you?
14. How has that quality been revealed in your life?
15. Do you have obsessions? What are they? How did they develop?
16. You’ve got access to a private jet. Where’s the first place you’d go?
17. What scares you? Why?
18. What’s the most unique thing about you?
19. What would you describe as the shining moment in your life so far?
20. Give a one word description of your character, for example, “dependable”, “sincere”, etc. How do you think you got that way?
21. Is there a story from your life that illustrates that quality?
22. What event in your life always makes people laugh when you tell them about it?
23. What event in your life always makes people sad/cry/go awww when you tell them about it?
24. You can have any job, any profession you want. What is it?
25. What is the purpose of life? Why are you here?
26. Have you taken any actions that embody this purpose?
27. How would you like to embody this purpose in the future?
28. What would you like your best friend to say at your funeral?
29. After knowing you for five minutes, what impression would a person have?
30. How would they be right?
31. How would they be wrong?
32. If you were meeting someone for the first time, what could you tell them about yourself that summed up who you are?
33. You’ve been given the right to make one law that everyone in the United States has to follow. What would it be?
34. Congratulations, you’ve just won twenty million dollars. What are you going to do next year?
By: Craig Heller
Tags: Autobiography, College Application Essay, College Essay, Disappointment, Foolproof Method, Ideal, Job, Obsessions, Private Jet, Profession, Purpose Of Life, Sad Cry, Self Interview, Shining Moment, What Is The Purpose Of Life, Word Description
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Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Here’s a common story. Ellen C. dropped out of high school in the tenth grade. She’s tired of low paying jobs and wants to enroll in nursing school but needs to obtain her high school diploma or the equivalent, the GED. She goes online and enrolls in an online high school that promises to give her a GED in two weeks after she passes a quick online test. Ellen passes the test, pays her $250 and gets an official looking “GED” diploma in the mail. But when she tries to enroll in the nursing school they politely inform Ellen that the diploma is a fake.
This familiar story plays out over and over everyday for thousands of people. Just as the Internet has become a valuable source for online education, it has also become a way for unscrupulous and dishonest companies to take advantage of people in need. For the 40 million people without a high school education, getting a diploma the fastest and easiest way seems to be the quickest road to a better job and higher income. But fast and easy is very often a waste of time and energy.
How can one tell if the online school is a fake? Here’s what to look for.
1. If the Internet listing says you can take the GED test online, it’s a fake. The GED is ONLY awarded by your state after you pass a 7
Tags: Advantage, Fake Diplomas, Fake Ged, Ged Test, High School Diploma, High School Education, Job, Low Paying Jobs, Mail, Nursing School, People In Need, Tenth Grade, Waste Of Time
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
Have you had someone tell you that just received their certified MBA? Are you now wondering how this person was able to complete their education while holding down a job? If you asked you would probably find that your friend graduated from an online course as this is a way that many people are able to get their degree and better their life, all without stepping foot into a classroom.
Making An Online Program Work for You
You may have been putting off that Master of Business Administration for years because you didn’t think that you had time for the top business schools in your area. Now, you don’t need to have hours on end where you can sit in a classroom each week. Instead, you need to carve a couple hours out of your week, when it is convenient for you, and complete your course work. In many instances you may be able to complete the work in the middle of the night or early in the morning, whenever it is convenient for you.
Wondering how you can become an online MBA course graduate? You simply need to do a bit of research. There are many different resources out there today that are offering online courses for you to choose from, you simply need to look into all of the options and find the one that is most fitting for you. You need to take some care in choosing the right option as there are diploma mills out there that will simply take your money and give you a diploma that has no real merit. You want to make sure that you are going to get what you need to get further in your career, which is an MBA that means something!
When you find the right online MBA course you simply need to look at all of the requirements and then stick to the plan. You may need to apply for the course and you may or may not get in on the first go around. When you do get in, you need to make sure that you give it your all. You only want to have to go through the process once, and if you do well and stick to the plan, you will then be a course graduate! It will have the same meaning and benefits of being a graduate from a university where you actually went and sat in a classroom, so make it work for you!
By: J.J. Yong
Tags: Career, Couple Hours, Diploma Mills, Education, Instances, Job, Many People, Master Of Business, Master Of Business Administration, Mba Course, Money, Online Courses, Online Mba, Top Business Schools
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