Essays on Higher Education

I’ve always been deeply interested in computing. I can always remember the feeling at a young age of wanting to know how my Xbox 360 was put together, how such a device worked so efficiently and how the games seemed so realistic. This interest never left me. From playing on my console to seeing the...

I am a junior at Boston University’s School of Hospitality Administration. I am writing to thank you and express my gratitude for making the Arthur G.B. Metcalf Scholarships Fund possible. I was thrilled to hear that I was a recipient for this scholarship and deeply appreciate the contributions you have made. Currently, I am pursuing...

For every man, woman, and child at some point in their life, for those who can go will have to enter the American education system. Some will take homeschooling; others will go to public schooling or private. We can argue or counter-argue that one is better than the other or it is different. We as...

«I got fired!» I heard my dad telling it to my mom in our small, but cozy apartment on the outskirts of the county in a little village. I was a child about 6 or 7 years old playing with my newly born brother in another room, but the sounds of my mom’s cry after...

Stress is an integral part of human life. Anything that makes our comfort challenging or threatening is a stress. It is not considered bad for all forms of tension because it helps people work better. Stress among students is inevitable in academics, and it influences the performance of students in all academic activities. Academic stress...

I followed my father to his lab on days that weren’t school-days as a child. I was fascinated with the environment and the work he did. I would watch with enthusiasm as he carried out his experiments which led to the production of effective drugs. One of which stopped a stomach upset I had at...

My quest to acquire an MBA degree is ten years in the making, and I am thrilled to be on the cusp of realizing that dream. It was ten years ago, as a junior in college, that I switched out of the college of science so I could pursue a business degree. Thinking back on...

I have always nurtured a strong desire to make a positive difference, to serve the society, gravitating towards serving the ailing by being a medical practitioner. Since my early childhood, I inherently found myself intrigued by the intricacies of biological science and disease. This passion was further ignited during my schooling days, when the entire...

This point considers the causes of specific student problems and how it can result in these problems. Students, who want to start education, very often thinking, that it will be the best adventure in their life because they can meet lifelong friends and this is an opportunity to lern everything about things, that interest them,...

My main motivation behind turning into a GOI-IES Scholar is to pursue my master in renewable energy in Ireland. Which empowers me to procreate green energy accessible to every small village and city in my home country and Ireland by highly mitigating the demand toward fossil fuels in power generation. Aside from interest, my major...