Reflection paper
Reflection papers are a venue in which you can offer personal reflections to something we experience, something we see, or something we read. When you reflect on something, you are offering your opinion, your insight, and your thoughtful commentary on the subject (the subject of this paper is your choice!). Your subject could relate to your experiences here on campus, with your friends, or in our class or another class. It could also relate to an experience you've had outside of UML, whether that means a trip you took to Boston for the day or an experience you had at a local grocery store. "The goal of this assignment is for you to NOT merely describe the experience, but to acknowledge and discuss why the particular experience impacted you" I'm International student please taken into consideration when writing
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Is Education Necessary?
It has never occurred to me that there exists any other key to success in the modern world except working hard and getting access to higher education. My perception on higher education, as the key to success in the 21st century, is always fortified by the nature in which modern technology has revolutionized the universe. Consequently, the modern labor market is prompting workers to undertake life-long learning even through Distance Learning in order to stay competitive in the technology oriented market. Many students all over the world are struggling to gain access to constrained resources in institutions of higher learning because many, like me, believe that better and higher education grantees better life. Nevertheless, my believes that working harder in class and accessing higher education could translate into a better job were challenged by the New York Times', Steinberg (2010) who advocated that students could skip college because he believed that higher education was not meant for everyone (para. 1). He implied that there are young people who instead of pursuing higher education, make even a better living through other avenues. Since I read his assertions, I am challenged concerning whether education, in general, is necessary for me.
Indeed it will be of greater loss to give up my comfort at home and come into a foreign land to seek better preparatory education to my future only to end up indifferent or worse than those who choose non-academic paths. For instance, my family has invested a lot in my education but worth is it? Education is indeed a preparatory ground to equip the young minds, like myself, on important aspects of life and how to be successful in life. The 21st century has been dubbed the “Information and Telecommunication eraâ€. In order to reap the benefits of available technologies, higher education is fundamental to inducing new technologies and techniques to young minds, on how to use problem solving approches in the real world job problems. This infers that the highly educated individuals in the socie...