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Personal Essay with Gems

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Personal Essay with GEMS

This personal essay will consist of a lot of my personal traits and qualities. This will tell you why I am taking online courses or pursuing a college degree in Information Technology. My essay will also consist of my personal traits as describe in the GEMS online site. I will also be telling you my own learning style and why this style works so well for me. In a whole this is my ways of learning and how I will use this towards learning my degree and how my own personal learning style will apply towards my own goals.

There can be lots of reasons for trying to get your college degree or trying to take college courses, but mine is to try and better myself and also to get out of the line of work that I am in now and also to spend more time with my family. Being in law enforcement does not leave much time for family functions or to be able to attend every little thing that you want to with the family. Getting my degree in

Personal Essay with GEMS

Information Technology will make things a lot easier and will also give me the working schedule that I want and also need. By being in law enforcement and working twelve hour shifts can be hard on one person but by trying to get my degree will allow me to work eight hour shifts and to be able to be home for all the important functions and family events that are going on. Getting a college degree is vital to also moving ahead in life or just to move up at the current job that you are at now. The job world is just so challenging right now and without a college degree you might have a harder time just finding the job or career that you may want in life.

Everyone has their own personal learning style whether it being one or sometimes you have two personnel styles. My own learning style is kinesthetic or tactile style. This style in general is like hands-on activities, needs demonstrations and physical representations to learn,

Personal Essay with GEMS

learn best while doing and would rather do than see or hear. This style fits me so well because I love to let someone shoe me and let me do it

right afterward and that is how I get the concept of what I am learning. Me learning is all about visual and you showing me what I am learning and then me showing you that I get the concept of what's being taught to me. In high school I had a little bit harder time learning my core classes but once I got into the military and started to do a lot of hands-on with me job or career, I tended to get what is being taught a whole lot easier. Just showing me what to learn and to ask me to do it for you can really get my attention more than just to be taught it and expect me to know it already. Kinesthetic style of learning has been the best learning style for me since I know how to learn and at times I may use the

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