My Personal Experience

this is very wordy, and long, and possibly confusing. but, i really hope it makes some sense, because this concept/idea/human experience is one that i’ve been itching to share/process for a while.

One of my personal experiences that I had was when my family decided to move from New Jersey to Florida. I never planned on moving with them but my mother basically forced me into moving with them. It wasn’t really all that moving stuff because the new house was actually pretty nice, it was just I had all my friends there and I was doing well in school. Nothing I said convinced my mother so after a week of packing we was off to Florida. The first week being there was a horrible week. Nothing was going right for me, I missed the school bus for a whole week, dropped my milk on my new shoes, and tripped over nothing in lunch. It was just trying to move back but parents always have this life lesson speech about trying to make new friends and try to get used to being here until we move again. It’s been about a month since we moved to Florida and I met about zero friends but I got used to living here since I’ve found something that interested me as an after school hobby and that was fishing. There’s barley any lakes or ponds in New Jersey so fishing wasn’t really something you do as a time waster. I usually fished right after I got home but on that day it was rainy and it wasn’t really a good time to fish so I just decided to practice my free shots until it started raining hard. I think I was outside for about 20minutes and suddenly a couple kids from my new school asked if they can shoot

When I was 5 my life changed completely. My sister and I were abandoned by our mother and father. I was then raised by my aunt and uncle along with my grandparents. I was taken in and loved as if I was their own. I want to show them and myself that no matter what happens in life that I can succeed and accomplish anything I set my mind to. Therefore, I am pursuing an Associates degree and the first generation in my family to go to college first generation in my family to go to college.

Life is all about choices, and the one choice I knew I wanted to make was to go to college and achieve my educational goals. Knowing that my family could not support my two older sister’s college endeavors let alone mine, I knew I had to act. Throughout my high school years, I applied myself constantly through taking challenging coursework and involving myself in clubs that I was passionate for. All of those years led me to overcome the biggest obstacle a senior student

To this day I am proud to say that my parent’s wishes that all of their children would graduated from college not only became a reality, but also a legacy for our family. Among my siblings, niece’s and nephews, there are doctors, MBA’s, teachers, a librarian, electrical engineers, a graphic designer, and a Vice President of Academic Affairs.

When reading this prompt I immediately thought of my first day moving into the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. My parents never had the chance to go to college and when they helped me move in it was a moment that I knew I would remember the rest of my life. For many it is special but, it wasn’t necessarily that I was at college it was more about how I got out of my comfort zone and made it happen. I was never really pushed by my family to pursue further education. I am the first in my family to go to college and it’s honestly a blessing to be able to have the opportunity that others don’t have. I plan on also being the first to graduate in my family from a University. I’m really hoping that I influence my fellow peers and family

I have grown up in a low income, single-parent family, and am the first person in my immediate family to attend college. I always knew growing up that I wanted more for myself; I wanted to be something more, something bigger. I didn’t know what exactly I wanted, or how I was going to make this a reality, all I had were all these dreams and aspirations of becoming so much more than what I came from. My parents were both high school dropouts, as I eventually came to be. I didn’t get the start that I had imagined, but I soon made the decision that it had come time for me to do whatever it would take to make my dreams come true.

Attending college has always been at the top of the list for me. For me to get to where I have always wanted, I must continue my education to an institution and receive a bachelor’s degree. The fact that my family traveled so far to get here just so my sister and I could have a better future gives me inspiration to always move forward and never stop along the road. How could I let anything stop me from becoming who I desire to be? My mother still wishes that she was given the same opportunities that I am receiving today, so I must make her proud by taking advantage of the chances that I own.

I am a firm believer in the fact that even the smallest of experiences can contribute to a person, though the way in which they contribute is up to the eye of the beholder. Speaking educationally, one of the most influential experiences I have had was when I transitioned from homeschooling to public school in my third grade year. As a kid, I was very shy and unsocial with people I didn't know. When I was put into public school, the curriculum was difficult, the punishments didn't seem to really punish, and the things the teachers asked me to do seemed pointless. For instance, my third grade teacher required that we read books, took tests, and accumulated 'point' for each quarter, which determined our grade. This didn't make sense to me, why couldn't I just read my books? I do not believe my parents sheltered my siblings and me too much, because I was considered to be fairly mature at a young age. The elementary way of getting kids to do things by using 'points' didn't make sense to me, among other things. Adjusting to the new system of learning was greatly difficult. My third grade year was off to a rocky start, my report card proving that with a couple C's and one D. In fourth grade, I had a phenomenal teacher who I consider to be one of the greatest teachers of my schooling because he did not have the strange punishment of being

My mother and father have always taught my sister and I about the importance of furthering our education. Both my parents have never received a college degree; nevertheless, they still worked hard in their respected fields to become a regular middle class family. When my sister applied to colleges, it proved challenging to receive scholarship options since my family doesn’t qualify for many grants or scholarships due to where we fit into the class system. Therefore, because of the struggles my sister went through, I was able to have a realistic goal about where I could continue my education since I knew not going attending college was not an option.

The experience that most stood out to me, that has self defined me today is when I got to the age to understand how society judges minorities. For example, when I was in my young teens; I used to hang around my older cousins who were a lot darker than me, we used to go to the mall and hang out for fun. The store clerks would follow us around and constantly ask if they needed help or if we were looking for

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2:35 a.m. Even though it was something that I had experienced before, the pain still took me my surprise. And it was only the beginning. I had finally fallen asleep around midnight. My parents had come down to Indiana for a weekend visit and we had stayed up a little late enjoying our visit with each other after the boys had gone to bed. There were two bedrooms in my little apartment and I had given them the use of mine, deciding to sleep with my two children in the other room. Being two weeks overdue with my third child and still working full-time as a waitress, I practically passed out when my head finally touched the pillow. That is, until a bad cramp woke me from my peaceful slumber. Still groggy from

Although we’ve all experienced any degree of disappointments in our lives, there are a select few that tend to stick with us. They act as assets in our lives, tools to use help us grow. The way a person deals with disappointment speaks volume about who someone is. Personally, I am the kind of person who likes to have constants in my life; commodities that won’t change and those that I can depend on when everything else is unstable. When I was in my second year of middle school, one of my biggest constants was my band director, Ms. Palmer. The way my school district operated, all the middle school directors would also help in the mornings at the high school band class. As a result of this, once my brother and sister left our middle school,

Growing up i learned that i needed to mature at a younger age compared to my peers. I understood that a low-income, minority i needed to work hard to achieve my goals. One experience that shaped my life happened this past year. My family and I were evicted from our home a couple of days before my birthday and right before the holiday season. This made me stronger but it also changed something inside me. I learned that life isn't a game and that i should be grateful for what i have, because one day I could lose it all.