Ok I'm a sophomore and am ranked 18 out of 179. My cumulative gpa is 4.34. I have all honors and AP classes. On my report card I got a C in honors algebra 2 because my teacher sucks. I got a B- in AP world history and honors chemistry. I got an A in everything else,which is theology, honors Latin 2, web video design, and honors English 2. I am getting a tutor for both chemistry and algebra. What can I do to raise my rank/gpa? Is where Im at good? Do colored like where I am right now? I live in Illinois and want to go to a college in Illinois. I'm thinking the university of Illinois at Urbana chamaign or uic. What do you think? Any suggestions? Thanks!
Also I am on the tennis team, cbn team/club, play the trumpet, do Taekwondo, and am a boy scout. I am also a male mexican if that makes a difference.
I am an IT professional that works at a "BIG4" firm. The morale is low and it is a somewhat backstabbing environment. Employees fight over projects (to have high pressure assignments handed out) and all work more that 55 hours a week.
Recently, I went on vacation and received a call from my director about a class that I hadn't registered for. Mind you at the time I am in Honduras. On the call he says to me that I should looking for the nearest internet connection to register for this class. It cost me 200 bucks to get to an internet WI-FI location and register for the class. The entire experience ruined my vacation and when I came back to work I was greeted with a verbal reprimand that caused me to leave the office in tears.
I feel that I can't trust my coworkers. Most of them are male and very chauvinistic, I feel that aI should leave immediately. Everyday, I go into the office and I feel that I am under undue scrutiny.
Should I stay and try to work through the tensions in my professional environment or should I just find another position (preferably out-side of IT) and attempt to find another career path to walk down.
Amid layoffs and burgeoning workloads, working any time, all the time, has become a habit for many employees. But companies trying to enforce time-off policies are discovering a paradoxical truth: To get more done, we need to stop working.
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