Goals

Personal Goals Paper

My personal goals I want to achieve at the University of Phoenix are to attend every class, work hard throughout the week to complete all tasks the best I can, and get good grades on everything I turn in. I also want to be able to balance Life Issues like, work and routine tasks that need to be completed day-to-day. I believe that the fact that class is only once a week, and is in the evening I will be able to attend every class.

When I first went to College, I had a hard time adjusting to the schedule of having class 5 days/week sometimes 3 classes each day. College was different from High School because with high school I would go to school at 8 in the morning, and be there until 3pm, with College I would have a class at 9am, then a break for a couple of hours, then another class at 1 or 2pm. A great deal of students adjusted to this schedule but I could not handle the hectic schedule that College provided. Many of times I would not even wake up for the first class of the day, and I realized once one misses a class it is extremely easy to not go the next day and/or the next class. During the 1st semester I got diagnosed with Mononucleosis, and that truly put a hindrance on my ability to go to school and do well in School. This was over 3 years ago, and now I am healthy, and will not have to worry about that kind of schedule or those kinds of health problems. I also have a very flexible work schedule so I will be able to complete all the tasks for class in a week, compared to having one day to complete an assignment in my prior College experience.

I will be working from 11am-7pm everyday of the week besides days of class in which I will be done working at 5pm. My line of work also allows me to focus on School tasks when I am at home because I will not have to worry about work related issues. I am going to try my hardest on every assignment that I do in School, and I think that since I have been given this opportunity for a fresh start I need to take advantage of it, and get through school as fast as I can with good grades. The next obstacle I will have to overcome is balancing Life, Work, and School.

I have estimated that there are 168 hours in a 7 day week, I will be working 40 of them, sleeping 50, and physically being at school for 4Ð'...which