The following was my partial response to a question in one of my recently submitted college applications, which asked, \u201cWhy do want to go college?\u201d<\/p>\n
I grew up in a family who lives for education, so it’s no surprise that going to college was pushed onto my siblings and me very heavily.<\/p>\n My dad believes very much that education is the foundation for a successful life. He has preached that to me multiple times, but until recently I never really took the time to listen. I had assumed that when he talked about being successful, he meant a stable career and a consistent flow of income. Turns out, there’s a lot more to that than I had previously thought.<\/p>\n When my dad talks about success, he’s referring to what he calls “inner peace.” He always told me that I would never come to peace with my life if I lived with a bunch of unanswered questions, and education prevents just that. The more you know, the less questions you’ll have, and it’ll be that much easier to find your answers. <\/p>\n By going to college, I hope to find my inner peace, which is a little ironic considering I’m signing myself up for a heavy workload and responsibilities, and where’s the peace in that? However, I do believe that college will be one of the biggest steps I can take toward living the kind of successful life my dad has always told me about, and I think that sounds pretty great.<\/em><\/p>\n For those who don\u2019t know, my Dad, James M. Rayphand, happens to be running for the CNMI\u2019s Board of Education in this year\u2019s election and I think that sounds pretty great too. <\/p>\n Jayda Morelle Rayphand<\/strong> The following was my partial response to a question in one of my recently submitted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[26,37,21,428],"class_list":["post-239747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-cnmi","tag-education-2","tag-life","tag-san-vicente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSan Vicente, Saipan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"