In society today, education is one of the most important things
stressed to our civilization. The famous quote "Knowledge is power."
stated by Francis Bacon in the late sixteenth century is still prominent in
today's world. Although knowledge does give you power, the education system
seems to have somewhat altered from being important to being a necessity in
life. Secondary schooling-a.k.a. college- may be perhaps one of the most
important places you choose in order to gain education for the real world. I chose
to attend UMKC for financial, academic, and cultural reasons.
Not only do we live in a society where it
is expected to go to college, I come from a family where it is expected as
well. Being one of 6 children, it was the norm to me. I saw my first three
older siblings go to college, so it was expected of my parents, my younger
siblings, and myself. As I'd mentioned, I'm one of sixth children. Money is
something to be wary of in our family. UMKC was not only affordable; I also had
some scholarship that helped with the cost as well. So it being expected to go
to college, UMKC was one of my options that was a good choice.
A second reasoning behind choosing UMKC
was for academic reasons. I was never completely sure of what I wanted to study
or do as a career for my life, but one idea I had was something in dentistry.
Being that I wasn't positive on this though I ended up looking into the schools
Ucollege program, which allows students to explore a field, they may be
interested in. This provided me the opportunity to explore the field of health
and sciences and possibly explore something in dentistry being that UMKC has a
good dentistry school.
One of the final reasons behind choosing
UMKC was the fact that I've always loved cities and urban settings. I wanted
the chance to leave home and being that I'm from St. Louis, Kansas City is far
enough away from there that I get the feeling of being away. I really enjoy the
urban feel of Kansas City. The culture of it attracted me because not only is the city part of it interesting, but there are a lot of different types of people and ethnicities. All these factors of Kansas City drew me in.
With education being a standard in today's
society in order to get a well-rounded job for the future, I feel like I didn't
have much of a choice. In addition to societies expectations I had my families
as well. If I could have the chance to travel and study somewhere without the thought of money and my future I would. It just seems harder to do things like that in todays world only because to get a good job you need an education, and to have what would be considered a good education, you need to go to college. I ended up choosing UMKC because it was ultimately a good fit for me and it was
what I had to do.
