Monday, January 26, 2015

#1: Why I'm Here at UMKC

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. 

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