Personal Narrative: My Graduating With My Bachelor's Degree

My sophomore year at Central High School did not start out the best. I was recovering from an awful grade point average, awful for me at least, I was sitting the bench in a sport that I had lost interest in, and overall I just did not enjoy school anymore. I personally did not see the point in coming to school at all. It took some time, but I finally started to get my grades up, my season had ended for football, and I knew I was not going back. After everything was starting to go my way I started thinking, “What am I going to do next?”

college until that moment I wasn’t sure I wanted to go and was intending not to do so. I think

decision to return back to school and complete my degree at first was an overwhelming course of

changed my education since I was a sophomore in high school. Little did I know, at the

Although, I enjoyed steady employment my desire to finish school lingered with me. I needed a guided path of straight forward thinking with no distraction also with no life worries of daily living and survival.

As of mid 2017, I am now enrolled at CCU, seeking a degree in Healthcare

College was one of the greatest challenges I had ever faced, because I was terrified to fail, and in turn fail myself. I did what I always do though. I dig in my heels. I was dedicated. I finished my AAS degree in paralegal studies and received high honors, and an award for most outstanding paralegal, and best public speaker.

My decision to return to school was a struggle, I was raising my three girls and working and worried about the affordability and most of all I was constantly told that I couldn’t attend college because I had a family to take care off or constantly told “put it off until next year” time and time again. I felt resentful, infuriated and guilty and all at the same time.

career. In my senior year of high school, I could have slacked off like many other people but I

I decided that I should dedicate myself and into finishing the degree that I had stupidly given up on. The classes weren’t what I expected. Suddenly the urge to quit got strong

graduate school. Because of this, I have made an effort to be a mentor as well as a teacher by

At first I felt like I wasn’t going to be able to put as much time as I wanted in my outside of class work. But over the course, I learned that I had to make it a priority and didn’t have any other choice. I had to make it work with my job schedule and use my time very wisely, which at first wasn’t easy because I wasn’t really good at that.

I had set up great study habits in high school and finished top of my class with

One of the proudest accomplishments of my life was earning my college degree, despite the fact that my early adulthood

By then, I realized that I wasn’t doing anything to deserve my success, and that it’s nearly impossible to do well by doing practically nothing. Sure, I thought I was smart, and I knew I could complete any assignment handed to me easy, but there was one thing that bothered me; I hadn’t worked toward achieving anything. I had no idea how to study or prepare for exams and essays, I had no idea how to ask for help from peers or teachers, but the hardest part was accepting that I have many areas of myself academically to work on. I was still getting far above average grades, but when it came down to working towards them, I had done little to no work whatsoever. I realized the importance of having to work hard the second I received my ACT score, and I knew I had to do better. Realizing how much work I had ahead of me, I concluded that no one will succeed unless they put hard work into it.