Finance U: LFLA's College and Career Blog

Justin, Class of 2018, explains how to keep your grades up.        Keeping up with grades will be one of, if not, the most vital thing you will have to maintain throughout your career in school. When your grades are kept up, not only are you passing, but you also get a feeling of achievement in the end. Of course, when you care about your grades, you will end up stressing. Then again, the stress will be worth it, considering that you are stressing for a good reason.        If you are someone like me who has a lot on their plate, making sure your grades are kept up might feel like the least of your worries. Having that mindset, however, does not make anything better. I remember during the second and third quarters of 2017 (March to October), I ended up going through a deep depression. It felt as if things would never go right in the heat of the moment.        There was a lot going on during those months, but the main thi...

Erica, Class of 2018, shares her experiences with managing your time when you go to school & work a part-time job.   One of the most important things about senior year is learning how to save money and manage your time. Coming into senior year I knew I had to get a job, because I knew that this year of all the years was going to be one of the most, if not the most, expensive years of high school with things like senior dues, prom, and college application fees etc. coming up I knew not having a job wasn’t an option. I had been looking for a job the summer coming into my junior year and all throughout junior year. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find one because a lot of jobs like for you to have experience, and I also had this thought that I was honestly better than certain jobs, which prevented me from applying to a lot of places I probably would’ve gotten hired. I finally got a chance when I sucked it up and just went to the open interviews that McDonald’s was having....

Kyajaa, Class of 2018, shares how she chose her college major.       In our lives, the common question asked is, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” As a kid, I couldn’t come up with an imaginative or realistic answer, so I would shrug to avoid the question. The path to finding my college major began in 7th grade. I know, what person finds their dream job that young? At the age of 13, I was introduced to Mechanical Engineering. I researched what Mechanical Engineers did, and I knew that wasn’t the path for me. I didn’t give up on engineering though, just the mechanics part of it.      Fast forward to my junior year in high school, I was in Engineering class, an elective, and Mama Danzo, or Mrs. Danzo #2, assigned the class to research and complete a presentation on the engineering field of your choice. For my presentation, I chose Aerospace Engineering. Aerospace Engineering is the development, design, and manufacturing of aircraft and spacecra...