Why I Have Made The Decision For Further My Education

Paper 1 Assignment â€Å"Why I have made the decision to further my education† I was born in Novokuznetsk, a small city in the Siberian part of Russia. Life happens, and my father left us when I was only a few months old. Being a single parent, my mother had to work hard to raise me and to give me everything that was in her forces. Since the earlier childhood I had realized that if I wanted to change something in our life and become successful in the future my priority task must have been getting a good education. It was absolutely clear that, being an educated person, I would more likely become an advanced professional and achieve my own goals in career and personal life. The 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson, once†¦show more content†¦My mother noticed my abilities and put me in the school specializing in physics and math, which from I later graduated with honor. Being studying in high school, I had participated in the mathematical competition, organized by our city association of the universities. I won and received a scholarshi p and the opportunity to be placed in any university in the city without the placement tests and fee. By this way, I had got not only a gladness but also the freedom to choose the university and a major. Then I was facing the difficult and very important choice of the future profession. However, the choice I had finally made was the greatest mistake in my life. Sanford J. Ungar in his essay â€Å"The New Liberal Arts† quotes the suggestion of the president of Hart Research Associates, Geoffrey Garin, that â€Å"the responsibility of higher education today is to prepare people â€Å"for jobs that do not yet exist†. So I decided to be prepared for the job which didn’t yet exist but sounded too attractive for me. The fact is that the world is undergoing changes, the international connections are rapidly growing and the globalization is in full swing. Considering this tendency, one of the best universities in our city had established a new major â€Å"global economy†, also called as â€Å"world economy†. This major was oriented to prepare high qualified foreign affairs