Personal Narrative: My Love For A Higher Education

Going into college, I would like to peruse many of my goals. I would like to start out getting my general studies in and then build up to become a Registered Nurse. After I accomplish becoming a Registered Nurse I would like to work on becoming a Nurse Practitioner. One reason I am striving to complete these goals is to be able to have a good future and hopefully a good job will come out of this. Neither of my parents went to college and I want to be able to accomplish that for myself.

In the previous years, I have made the decision to work concurrently with my education. I have been working as a waitress in a local restaurant for years. My parents were opposed to my working since they wanted me to focus on my grades, but I wanted to lessen the financial burden for them. Both of my parents never received an education and they wanted me to solely focus on school to secure myself a better future despite our poverty.

My life has been like a dark maze. I have absolutely no idea what's around the next corner. Each path I've taken has lead me to one of two things. Something fantastic that I'll enjoy and remember or something I wished never happened that I can forget. That's why I'm scared to take the next step because I don't know what will happen to me. However a few years ago I learned to give to give each step a chance, no matter how far back that step will take me. Being a senior this year a cartoon word has been shoved in my face a hundred times a week. That word is college. Just getting into college is a challenge. Thinking about all my test scores, GPA, applications is enough to give me a migraine. If just getting into a good college is this hard, I

I vividly remember my first day as a first year teacher. I was the youngest teacher in the hallway full of high school students, who overlooked me, and teachers who thought I was a student. It was a year of growth, frustration and thoughts that lead me to pursue a career in nursing.

Making that first step to complete independence isn’t always easy. Being the first person in my family to ever attend college, I knew I was travelling into uncharted territory, one where I wasn't sure what to expect. My dad, a concrete worker, my mom an esthetician both came from very little and never had the chance to attend college. Both of my brothers decided against college and went to work for my father in the concrete business. For this reason, I was a little bit hesitant to venture too far from my home my first year. What if something went wrong? What if I couldn’t do it? I am happy I stayed home and attended Daemen my freshman year, because it opened my eyes to a great deal of things, and helped me find what I want to do with the rest of my life. Since I was little I always knew I wanted a career that involved helping people, especially children. The first semester of my freshman year I took a class called “Healthcare Studies

So now here I am. The Tribe was able to fund me in continuing my education, and I’m finally able to attend college. I never thought that I would make it to college. I was always beating myself up for having a GED and giving up in School. My first day of college in January, was filled with anxiety. I thought I was going to faint. But I survived. I now I’m enjoying the college life. Although it’s not much of a fabulous life. It’s challenging, stressful, intimidating, intense, but also fun. I want to encourage my children to never give up. I also want to remind them about how important school is just like my grandpa did. That getting an education is important. That without one they would struggle like I had. And reflecting back to when I was a

To support my education I am currently applying for all possible scholarships that I qualify for and are available. At the moment I am waiting for their response. I have also made contact with Central Michigan University to find out what amounts I will receive based off of my FAFSA application. On top of all of this I am performing to the best of my abilities academically and striving to make the most of the end of my high school career and to better prepare myself for the higher education that is to come. Outside of school I am also working for my Dad when I can in hopes that I will be able to save money towards my college education. I do not work all of the time because I like to have my education at the center of my attention so that I

Tragedy struck on a Kansas oil rig, leaving a family without a second income. My grandfather, severely injured, could no longer work to support his family. Needless to say, family finances became tight. For a family of six, the only income was from my grandmother, who worked as a receptionist at the local hospital. As the second youngest of the family, only older than her twin sister by four minutes, my mother was only ten years old. To help with finances, every child was responsible for having their own job. Although the majority of us cannot remember what we did most summers, that is not the case for my mother. At the mere age of ten years old, my mother, Carol Ann, spent every weekend and summer working.

On a gloomy, emotionally drained, rainy November evening I was stuck in the back of Shari's restaurant scrubbing dirty dishes. Twelve at night and school the next morning, piles of homework stacked higher than the dishes, I can even remember counting down the seconds until I could get out of that place. I then came to the realization that scrubbing dishes until the late night hours not only sacrificed my social life but also affected my education, things needed to change. It was time for a new job, I knew that with the skills and knowledge I acquired at my past jobs, my opportunities were endless for the future jobs waiting for me. The opportunity was eagerly knocking at the front door like my baby nephew does when he wants to come play in

Finding the perfect college for yourself can be seen as a backbreaking experience because when you are looking there is never just one aspect that could determine whether a school would be a good fit for you. The two most important things an up and coming college student must look at are the social-emotional fit and academic. The social-emotional aspect is simply saying if you could ever see yourself at the college having a good time with lots of friends and the academics are does that college have the major and or minor you would like to study. The first school I will be looking at is Bethune-Cookman University it is a medium-sized,4 year, private liberal arts historically black college it is located in the small city of Daytona Beach, Florida

At the beginning of my junior year of high school, I made the decision to pursue a different educational path. I left my high school and began the Great Lakes Bay Early College program, allowing me to gain collegiate experience and earn college credits while completing my high school requirements. Being introduced to a college environment at the age of fifteen was both challenging and inspiring. It provided a new set of social and educational circumstances and potential difficulties. Thankfully, I was able to adapt quickly and those challenges

My biggest motivation to become a Columbia Souther University student was the birth of my child. I what best for her, like every good parent. After some research in the internet, I found out that Human Resources Manager is highly paid profession. And because I already have a degree in this specialization from my International University , the CSU transfer half of my credits, that would help me to complete the school sooner. Taking this classes will help me to succeed in my future career. I look forward to learn about all laws and regulations of Human Resources, how to be a leader and a good manager, be more socialize. And also it will help me a lot with my English, that I will feel more confidant in myself

In the beginning of my college academic career I thought I had it figured out. Like most naive young adults, I soon came to the realize that I didn’t. My first year of college I decided to go away to upstate New York and study at a vocational school to be veterinary technician. I had always loved animals, and I thought that this was the career for me. I slowly came to realize that it wasn't. For some reason the career was not fulfilling, and I quickly lost interest. I struggled a lot balancing a rigorous course load my first year of college, and on top of that I was far away from any support from my family. After my first year had ended, I felt lost and had no idea what to do next. I knew that I wanted to study something in the health or sciences,

I was born on November 7th, 2002, in Eau Claire Wisconsin. I was born at 12:57 in the afternoon at Eau Claire’s local hospital. My mom knew I was coming soon so my parents drove to the hospital and about 15 minutes after they checked in I was here. It was a very quick delivery, unlike my sister who took about 5 hours to be delivered. Even though I was born at 12:57 I was supposed to be born earlier because the nurses tried to hold me in as long as they could before the doctor came. As you can see I was very impatient and wanted to be out in the world, so look out world here I come!

My educational goals are to take everything that I`ve learned from college and high school and but it into my career in the future . Which what i want to do is major in culinary arts (Pastery Cheif) and open my own bakery its been a dream of mine since I was a little kid and my grandmother was the one who inspired me to own my own bakery. When I little my grandmother and me used to bake stuff all the time for like a church gathering, a funrasier, or just for a family get together and it was always so fun. We would laugh and smile there some of my favorite past memories and they encouraged me to do my dream.