Personal Narrative: My Post-Secondary Education

Throughout my educational experience I noticed the discrepancies with regard to the advantages my peers possessed. In high school as I began exploring what career I wished to pursue, I experienced inferiority as my classmates who’ve taken the ACT three times, visited college campuses, and have had resumes ready since the 6th grade unintentionally mocked my lack of college-readiness. However, my ignorance wasn’t intentional, my parents never reached a high school education in Mexico, they couldn’t pass down SAT tips or acquire internship opportunities for me. I realized it's vital to pick up the pace to avoid being left in the dust akin to countless others in my situation. Henceforth, this statement resonates with my experience, I interpreted

My educational history is very diverse. I went to Catholic school from kindergarten to sixth grade, then went to public school from seventh to twelfth grade. The transition from Catholic school to public school was very complicated but at the same time it was effortless. I did not have to wear a uniform, go to church, or learn religion anymore.

Although most people would continue post-secondary after high school, I plan on going to college, most likely Langara college, first after graduating. At first, I did want to go straight to UBC or SFU after high school, however, I started thinking of what I wanted to do. Then it occurred to me of how this is going to affect my entire life. From what I heard from others, people sometimes change their decisions based on what they want to do as a career. Not only does this take a lot of time on studying something else after changing their primary focus, but also costs a lot of money. Unfortunately, I know that I won’t have enough money to pay off the financial expenses just to study for the career I want for my future. I need to make sure that

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.

When I was in high school, I wanted to go to college. I wanted to become well educated with a good

Recently I got asked the question “ If you could continue any one activity after high school what would you continue to do”. This question really fascinated me because I never really thought about picking only one activity to continue after high school. But after thinking about it for a while I finally decided on Diversity club as the activity I would continue if I could pick only one to continue. I would pick Diversity club because the world is made up of 7 billion people that are all different and Personally, I can’t even begin to fathom what a world where everyone is all the same would look like. Diversity club is a place where different people can all come together to learn about each other's differences. While still finding reasons that

"Things end, but memories last forever." My weekend was sure to prove that. Even though the seniors of 2016 are in readiness to graduate we will most definitely miss these times consumed together. On top of my roof, we sat chattering about what we are going to do after senior year. We discussed about how May 21, 2016, would arrive way before we wanted it to come upon us; once that day comes, we will realize only then that we might never see everyone out of our class again. As we all were articulating about how college will be contrary, how we will study so much more, and how tough it really might be; we promised to never drift apart from the best friends that we are. Finally, two a.m. crept up on us, and we knew it was time to get some

It was a bright sunny day and I was ready to play. I was on the playground at recess. It was in April. I was on the monkey bars when my friend told me to jump down and she would catch me. My 3rd grade self thought it was a good idea and jumped. When i jumped from the bar, she moved. I slammed into the ground. I learned from this experience that you can’t trust everybody, not even your closest friends. No matter how much you know a person, you never know when they could change just in a second. Even if she moved because she was scared, or she wanted me to hit the ground, it doesn’t matter. Through it all I learned that you can’t give your just to everybody.

Public school systems need to be more sensitive to their students. Parents play the major role in determining a child’s academic outcome, but the school system needs to notice children who don’t necessarily acknowledge their gift. These children need guidance -- I believe it is the schools’ responsibility to provide it to them. I have been through a situation that makes me feel strongly about the subject. My example is an indisputable case in point.

After what seemed like hours, Hanna had finally decided which shoe I was going to wear to the party.

I really started to go and develop in the 7th grade. I started to take school seriously. Before the 7th grade, I did care about school but I wasn’t serious about it. I used to mess around with friends in class, do my work sloppy, and not taking time to study outside of school. When 7th grade started, I told myself that i gotta focus on my education because it will prep me for the following school years and develop good habits. During the year, I put school as a higher priority than other things like video games and sports. My grades were good except the one C grade I had in English class. Overall the next two years my grades were great, I had only A’s and B’s in my classes. Once I entered my sophomore year at Puyallup High School, my focus

When I was a freshman, without an idea about my future or any knowledge of college outside my state, I watched Gossip Girl, a TV show, with my mom.One episode, the characters were discussing colleges-Harvard, Yale, Brown, NYU. I'd never heard of these places so I grabbed my computer and started researching. At the time, no one in my family had been to college and graduated; this was new territory. I was enthralled. Every school was so interesting and exciting. I continued down the magical, mainly Ivy League, college rabbit hole until I came across something particularly interesting: Stanford EPGY (Education Program for Gifted Youth) Online. I've always been the girl to take chances and see what happens, so I spent the summer filling out an

One of my educational goals consists of graduating the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico with a BA in Indigenous Liberal Studies as well as, a certificate in Business and Entrepreneurship. Since I joined the IAIA community two years ago, I had expanded my knowledge aspects and had the chance to meet various people from various Native communities from the United States, Mexico, Canada, to Alaska and Hawaii. IAIA is one school that projects a unique atmosphere with various cultural perspectives. While attending the Institute of American Indian Arts, I have discovered I am passionate in the fields of cultural and language revitalization, the history of the various Native American communities and nations, and tribal

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.

My Journey after high school is to go into business and to be an Accountant, I am a hardworker and am dedicated and have the qualities that you should have. To do this I am going to graduate from High School and go to CCRI for business in Accounting. I have looked all the necessary things for this Career that I want to do after High School, I have also looked up the task that they want you to do and the other things that they want you to do and how much they pay you. I have also seen that they want you to have a GED when you graduate from High School.