Personal Narrative: My Dual Enrollment Program

I am enrolled in the Commonwealth Governor's School. It is a rigorous academic program for highly gifted and motivated students. The program, which spans all four years of high school, is designed to challenge students in the four core subjects. Students in the program are required to take the most academically challenging courses available at their school, including a total of eleven Advanced Placement courses and one Dual Enrollment class. The program also requires its students to create two independent research projects called culminating projects. The goal of these projects is to teach students about how to conduct scholarly research, write literature reviews, create original products, correspond with experts, and present their findings.

they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please

I provide myself only twenty-four hours to dwell on a failure before creating a plan to overcome the obstacle and achieve success. Over this twenty-four hour time period I had the opportunity to reflect on my performance during the game, thinking about what I have done wrong and what I need to do better in practice the next day. The next day in practice the team moral was broken, we were all upset with our loss and needed to remember that the season is not over and that we need to get back out there and practice. This loss helped us to learn that we cannot take anything for granted; we went in with high hopes and made unfortunate mistakes that cost us the game. We must be humble, wise and learn from those mistakes in order to become

I am dual enrolled at Macomb Community College, earning 22-23 transferable college credits. I have a job and work quite a bit. My mom is a single mother of four children with no child support. This has forced me to grow up a lot faster than I should have. I essentially support myself financially which has made it tough past few years but I would not trade it for anything.

Ever since I was a kid I have always thought about what college I was eventually going to go to. I made the decision in high school that I wanted to be a special education teacher, so I thought about some schools that had that teaching program. My number one school I wanted to attend that had the best teaching program was East Carolina University. Having ECU as my number one choice lead me to apply there. Weeks after I applied I got a letter telling me some sad news that I was not accepted. Since I applied to ECU and did not get in, I was now thinking about applying to other schools like Methodist University or maybe a community college.

Joining a new club soccer team coupled with almost daily workouts allowed me to improve my skills in the offseason. The feeling of going into tryouts being so prepared allowed a new level of confidence to emerge in myself. With only two starting spots open, working hard from the very start was necessary in order for me to prove myself to coach. After making the team again, I knew giving my best effort couldn’t end here. I showed up to practices with a positive attitude, always ready to work hard. When the preseason scrimmages, long practices, and exhausting fitness checks were over, the feeling of having earned a starting spot was incredibly satisfying. Now, not only am I working hard to keep up my starting spot, but I am hoping my attitude will rub off on everyone and make the team stronger. Afterall, soccer is a team sport; and the possibility of winning a state title in the near future adds to my ambition to perform well for my teammates every time I step on the field.

After recently graduating from Fullerton College with two associate degrees in psychology, I could have not accomplished this goal all by myself without the proper guidance that I received from EOPS and FYSI at the time. These programs were established to support former foster youth at Fullerton College in their education as long as they met all the conditions for each semester. As a result, this was valuable for me during my time as a community college student, allowing me to guarantee that I would finish all my requirements on time to transfer to a good university, and becoming more involved with the campus each semester. That being said, this is one of the main reasons as to why I am applying to your program, so I could receive the support

I am a non-traditional student. I began my college matriculation 15 years after receiving my high school diploma. I started my family before focusing on my education and career. I have been fortunate within that 15 year gap to be a stay-at-home mother. When my youngest son began kindergarten, I began college classes. This reversal of traditional education and family construction has given me a unique perspective on life.

Fall of 2016 started off with football games, getting accepted to UA’s New College Life Track program, and I finding out that I was pregnant. Even though my boyfriend John, and I are not married we were still excited and ready for this new chapter in our lives. Living with endometriosis it is very hard if at all possible to get pregnant. We were in shock. Everything was normal with my body and I had been taking my birth control reguraly. There was no thought of being preganent I felt a little strange like something was off but I wasn’t feeling sick. Once I went to the doctor they told me I was six weeks preganent. Again, we were surprised but but happy for this new adventure. A few months passed and we went for an update, by then I was at

I am an optimist and a fighter; I do not give up easily. As we walked back to the sideline at halftime, I reached out to my defensive backs and started to highlight the positive things that we did, such as limiting our opponents to three goals, emphasizing how well we were communicating, and reliving the passes that exposed the weaknesses of the other team. It’s a mindset, I remembered thinking to myself, and at halftime, it was a matter of re-energizing the entire team and pointing out that it takes teamwork to accomplish a goal. As we started the second half, we scored a goal, then another one. The other team capitalized on a mistake and scored yet another goal, making our goal of winning so much harder.

During the second half, it seemed as if the world was fighting against us. Almost none of our shots went in. Even the starters were beginning to lose hope. But I had seen what our team could do. I refused to believe we could lose a game this important. Sadly, as the game progressed, we only fell further behind from our goal. I quickly glanced up at the scoreboard, 13 to 26, with 3 minutes left, it read. The odds were slim no doubt, but the game is never over until it’s

Finding ourselves down early against a team which we were better than had deteriorated team morale, causing us to make critical mistakes before halftime was over. During the break in action, we had a few precious minutes to regroup and this was the opportunity I used to lead my team. Some people were irritated, others were despairing, but I resolved to turn around our fortunes and

I developed a relationship with my professors by making appointments when I need help or sending emails. Just like your daughter spoke with the TA’s I do went to my TA’s for assistance but it was never very often. I would rather interact with the professor instead of the TA. As for the staff, I worked in the financial aid office at my institution which made it super easy to understand my financial aid. The admissions office is also in the same building so whenever I had a question I would just walk-in and ask. I never had a problem seeing my academic advisor, because I always made a point of actually communicating with him or her. The reason I had no issues attending a large institution and developed a good relationship with my professors

As of now, I have not begun the official curriculum, but I am looking forward to topics that deal with Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Knowing that I was not academically ready for college was one of the scariest times of my life. I was afraid of failing and having to go back home with disappointment. I would ask myself, “is it even worth going to college?” High School was a time where I relied on others. I was only cheating myself and did not realize I was not getting a proper education. Once I began my studies at San Jose State everything became completely different. I knew I had no one to help me out to and I also knew I could not take the easy way out. I actually had to try. I began to pay attention in my courses. For once I was committed to complete all of my assignments and worried about deadlines. It was not easy at first and it still isn’t. It is only getting harder and will continue to do so throughout my four years. So far I have definitely seen a difference in myself and my learning experience. I have seen a great development in my ability to express my ideas and be able to analyze a text while criticizing effectively. As well as my learning experience in a college setting. I finally understand the purpose of the course and have had an outstanding professor who has taught me a tremendous amount of information this semester. I know now for a fact as long as I keep putting in my effort it will only get better from here. The knowledge I have acquired was possible because of the homework, essays, and the in class activities my professor has assigned throughout the semester. Not doing my homework in