The amphitheater was full of people when Stephanie walked in to take her final exam before graduation. She hoped that some of the experiments she had done during her three years of studying would made it easier to graduate and not worry about grades. However every one of her professors told her the same exact thing, ’’Despite your achievements you still need good grades to graduate top of your class. We value your efforts to create new elements or make a difference in this world but you need to read your textbooks and pass your classes to have academic success. She had passed all her other classes leaving quantum physics as the last course because she found it less interesting than all the others. Her goal in life was to become a scientist …show more content…
All her fear appeared to be in vain when the test was surprising easy especially for the final course. Stephanie left the campus relieved and prepared to start the papers she needed to graduate and afterwards to look for a job. Although she was contented about her success in the exam in the same time she had a weird feeling she was being followed. The coffee shop in the corner of the street she went to every day hopefully would make her feel safe for the time being. She ordered her favorite hot chocolate and took a seat near the window. As soon as she started drinking a tall suited man approached her and sat next to her at her table. ‘’I’m very sorry for the intrusion Miss Jones but I would like a moment of your time. I am agent Coulson and I am here to offer you a job.’’ The man stopped and took a look around the shop noticing that it was empty and nobody could hear in their conversation. ‘’I work for the government in the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division.’’ ‘’And let me guess my first task for you will be to memorize all of this. I’m sorry I am afraid it will take some time.’’ Stephanie interrupted her future
Mae Jemison 's Education When Jemison was younger she spent her time in the library. She studied science, and was most interested in astronomy:The study of the stars. She later decided to be a biomedical engineer. She got an academic scholarship which helped pave the way for her to go to StanFord in California.
After her father’s hanging, she moved to live with her grandmother. She showed a passion early on for education and the pursuit of knowledge and despite the tragedies of her past, continued to get schooling. Aged eighteen, she married
These days Shukumar was always asleep by the time Shoba was up and off to work. When she awoke, Shoba would immediately slip out of bed, get dressed, and leave for work. By the time Shukumar had awaken, she gone, already dressed, downtown, sipping her third cup of coffee, and searching for typographical errors in textbooks and marking them in a code. The only evidence of her presence the previous night was strands of her thick dark hair left behind on her on pristine white pillow, Shukumar’s closet door cracked which caused him to stare at the boring rough, woolen fabric of his tweed jackets and velvety corduroy pants, and coffee left in the coffeepot with a clean baby blue mug beside it on the countertop.
After she graduated from Stanford she went to Cornell University Medical College. After graduation she went to intern at Los Angeles County/university of california medical center. For two and a half years after that she was in the peace corps teaching and doing medical research. After She left the peace corps she decided to pursue her dream of science.
In Alfie Kohn’s essay, the argument of grade expectations being too overvalued rests on a chain of assumptions, but can be argued. Alfie Kohn’s essay portrays that he wants students to find a variety of different purposes in school, and questions the idea of grades being too centralized. In detail, Alfie Kohn explains how students go to school not for the right reasons, but for the wrong reasons instead. For example, the author writes, “They’d scan the catalogue for college courses that promised easy A’s, sign up for new extracurricular-activities to round out their resumes, and react with gratitude when a professor told them exactly what they would have to know for the exam so they could ignore everything else” (para. 8).
Sophie being brave, insecure, and anxious has led her to overcome her goals. Sophie is very anxious about a lot of things. For example, Sophie was very worried was when they got a call from the border patrol, “My stomach tightened, I knocked on mom’s and Juan's door telling them that the border patrol was on the phone. ”[2] This was the one section were Sophie was very concerned about
The Pursuit of Grades Over Happiness There are many accomplishments that we have achieved, yet many to achieve, and the race towards them never seems to stop. Well, this is the case for many students because the race towards achieving high grades never comes to an end. Grades are meaningless in the grand scheme of things, as they do not control the rest of your life, but yet are still overly looked upon and can affect a student’s life drastically. However, a poet once said, “Life is not a race, but a journey, to be savored each step of the way” (Nancye Sims).
Although her Engineer professor didn 't think she could go anywhere with engineering because she was
When she’s alone, she feels fine because there is nobody to judge her. She made up her mind to write about her own story when she falls in the women’s room. The author writes “the building deserted, I was free to laugh aloud as I wriggled back to my feet, my voice bouncing off the yellowish tiles from all directions. Had anyone been there with me, I’d have been still and faint and hot with chagrin. I decided that it was high time to write the essay” (20).
(Kramer 5). There, she discovered her passion for science and shocked her peers by being the only female to attend the science program. (Kramer 5). She had an extremely positive attitude throughout her education which led her to joining the school’s tennis
Her large family helped influence her love for teaching and caring for others. Along with teaching,
She was one of the first female applicants to be an astronaut and ended up being the first American woman to go into space. Her feat has been an inspiration for women to pursue their dreams of STEM careers. This is why she founded Sally Ride Science in 2001. Her nonprofit organization sought to inspire women in STEM. Before she died, the organization accomplished organizing science festivals, running an engineering design competition, writing STEM books, holding the Sally Ride Science Academy, and more.
Date TMA received: Date returned: TUTOR’S REMARKS: Content Language and Organization Earned Mark EL121: The Short Story and Essay Writing TMA: Fall Semester 2015 - 2016 The ending of every short story represent a great significance for the short story itself.
Hence, the dangerous forest and the safe town. When ‘the native’ (p. 29, 21) suddenly approaches her, the female protagonist is paralyzed by fear for ‘every vestige of control, of sense, of thought’ (p. 29, 49). Yet, she does not fear the man himself since it is ‘Fear itself that [has] her by the arms, the legs, the throat’ (p. 29, 52).
One of the most important things she learned from him is that each and every time there was a new opportunity, she had to think of it as a new door opening to her welcoming her into a new future. Thanks to this wonderful encouragement to go to college, she was able to get a Ph.D. in Animal Sciences from a