Personal Narrative: My Entry Of College

himself before I had returned to work. I spent a few days really angry and confused.

My father decided to kick my mom, me and my three sisters out the house. We had no money for a new home. Luckily my mom's friend let us stay at their house. Immediately me and my bigger sister started to work. So I started working in construction.

School was also very difficult after his death. It took me about a year after he passed away to realize that my father would not want me to do poorly in school because he always told my older cousin that doing bad in school will get him nowhere in life. After realizing that, I decided to try to do everything from then on to my best ability. In school, I started to step it up, and my grades increased significantly. I have continued to get good grades from that point on and that was the best decision I have ever made.

choices I make are not only right but in his best interest. I knew I needed to do more, only I

At the beginning of the school year, I missed a vast amount of days due to medical reasons. In addition to that, I was a procrastinator. I would wait to the last minute to study and cram for tests. I was more concerned about hanging out with my friends and what was happening on social media.

Within the last few weeks she has reported child abuse of her youngest daughter to the authorities and we have been processing that experience for her, she does have a lawyer and

On the 11 October 2010 I gave birth to a healthy baby boy named Trey

I have recently started my first college class. While, yes, I am only a freshman I have found it to be very helpful and educational. A friend of mine introduced it to me and my school counselor pushed me to do it. The class is called Intro to College and Careers. It’s exactly as it sounds. We’ve been learning about college life, what that entails and how to manage a job and money. But it’s just as fun as it is hard. Although it probably isn’t as hard as I think it is. It’s just different. I’m not that big on writing, which I think comes from my short attention span. I’m able to listen to the professor then all of the sudden am thinking about the birds and their migratory patterns.

I’m in college. To the average person, this seems like an average sentence, but to me, this means everything. I’m the first person in my family to do this. I didn’t have anyone to ask about admissions. I didn’t even have support to help me finish high school. So many of the things that the average child would have the guidance of a parent for, I didn’t have. I did things on my own. Even when it came to doing my reading homework in first grade, my mom couldn’t help me because she couldn’t read English. Nonetheless, mine isn’t a story of despair or defeat. If anything, the simple sentence “I’m in college” is an absolute achievement. All of the hardships I went through didn’t leave me as a C- on a teacher’s desk, or a foster child bounced around

Long story short, I encouraged him to go back to school. He showed interest as well. Knowing that I have a full plate with my own school work and kids, I still felt a pull to help him by putting

In contrast, a lingering sense of dysphoria trailed along with my temporary satisfaction. I wasn’t naive enough to think I would enjoy menial labor the rest of my life. Without a high school diploma, my future opportunities would be extremely limited. I distinctly remembered statistics such as: a high school dropout makes- on average- 33% less than someone with a high

my first job, I learned to stand up for myself, even though it was really difficult because of my

It was time to let go of the bad habits and think of my future. This is all happened the end of July of 2012.

July 18th, 2009. That was the first step into this life I am in now. The day God granted me a wife. I

Since I thought I was grown, I got a full-time job which I despised. My manager was very arrogant and very condescending when he spoke to his subordinates. The customers were rude, the manager was pompous, so I quit because I could not bear being disrespected by people who were irrelevant to me. I knew my life was on a downhill slant, but I did not care. My only concern was I did not have to wake up early in the morning to catch the A-Train to school or work.