Personal Narrative: Returning To College

I am studying to become a Licensed Practical Nurse. I am writing to appeal for my financial aid. I feel a letter was proper because of certain circumstances that occurred during my life that contributed to me withdrawing from Psychology, College prep writing, college prep arithmetic and failing PRN 0374. I began attending Miami Dade College in the fall of August 2006 right after I graduated from high school. I enrolled in several courses which were Psychology, College prep writing and College prep arithmetic.

I have defiantly not had a normal or a comfortable life. I have lived in RVs and cars on the streets of NE Portland, been homeless twice and I have left the country on multiple occasions cause of my family financial situation. As recent as two years ago I was in Central America and Southern Mexico looking for a safe and decent place to survive in. I missed a year of school. Currently, I live in a leaky, moldy, single-wide trailer home in Rockwood Neighborhood in Gresham. My parents are divorced; my dad, who I live with, is unemployed, has health issues, and has no formal education. So I provide for him and myself.

I started to work as a waitress at very young age. I stopped receiving education because my grades at school were not good and studying seemed to be boring. Working in my twenties appeared to be more adventurous and full of promises. As the time passed by, my routine at work turned out to be a nuisance. I was feeling empty inside without knowing the reason. As my level of expertise in the catering business was growing, the idea of starting up a restaurant on my own was beginning to take shape. I believed to know how to handle a business but I was missing all the technicalities. Getting back to school was a good alternative though I did not feel ready.

Past- During my tenure at Darton State College (DSC), I begin my freshman year wanting to become a Physical Therapist. I spent two summers before I went to college going to Shreveport, Louisiana to observe one of my mother’s best friends, Charles. Charles had his own practice in Shreveport and was practicum instructor for Louisiana State University’s Physical Therapist program. My goal while at DSC was get admitted into the Physical Therapy Assistant program offered at the college. After two semesters of prerequisites I was successfully admitted into the Physical Therapy Assistant program at DSC. However, after c my completing one semester in the program, I knew Physical Therapy was not my shown field. I wanted to go into the field mainly

Throughout High School I thought I was proficient in reading and writing in my English classes, from freshman year to senior year English classes were easy and felt I could transition my confidence to community college after graduation until I took the English assessment exam and failed in the spring of 2012. Failing my entrance exam was devastating and I refused to accept my results, I waited two academic year before I can appeal to retest my English entrance exam and after weeks of waiting I was approved to retest. After I retest the results were the same, I was placed in remedial English not only was I devastated again but I personally felt worthless. I did not know what was wrong with my reading and writing but I had no choice to enroll

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

Returning to college has been a prodigious challenge. One in which I determined I would meet head on with resolution. As a fine arts student I was fortunate to find a mentor in the Paradise Valley Community College Theater Director, Andrea Robertson. Andrea perceived potential in me and encouraged pursuit my goals as a writer/director. I took the initiative to approach Andrea with the idea to write and direct my own play in the Advanced Directing course. This past fall that idea came into fruition. As a director I oversaw numerous different areas in the production of my play. These were roles filled by fellow students, allowing the opportunity to provide guidance and leadership to peers. I worked with actors, stage management, set design, prop

It is pretty cool that you had the same teacher for three years and that you liked her. It is nice to be reminded that there are teachers who care so much about their students and it is sweet that she wrote you letters over summer break. She is definitely a teacher that leaves a memorable impression on her students. It is too bad that college was a lot more difficult than you expected, but congratulations on deciding to go back and finish. I honestly do not know if I would be able to go back to school after stopping, however, maybe after discovering that I need an education in order to move up in my career then possibly my opinion would be different. I agree that this program is a lot of work, yet there is no doubt that it pays off.

Transitioning from high school to college will not be an easy task. From the start, we were told that we shape and mold our identities from a young age, but that it's easier said than done. Moving from one country to another, was a great big deal for me. My family and I knew education was important, but were offered little opportunities so my mom had to make many sacrifices in order for me to achieve my goal of a long and successful career.

College is what people like to say is the start of a new life or a new chapter in what’s to come. To me it isn’t entirely true. I understand that it’s only a few weeks into the whole situation, but my personality restrains my hands from firmly grasping the whole college atmosphere. I came into college excited waiting for the escape of all the drama and the annoying nature of cliques. But now that I’m here I discover that it amplifies all that I wanted to get away from. From day one I could easily tell who the jocks were, who was a book nerd, or those who loved the life of living Greek. When graduating from high school, I was hoping college classes would be more of a challenge as well. But even now, the concept covered in each class is like a flashback through all four of my high school year. What I was most hyped about coming to college for was the room to

In the past I have  attended multiple muns held by different schools in my community,  my most recent mode united nations conference being one hosted by the IIMUN team here in Kathmandu where I served as a delegate in a committee rather than a member of the press team. Whereas for where my jornualistic abilities lay, i contirebuted as a strong member of a fairly large  newspaper/press team in my old school only to find myself  taking  a bit of a hiatus in between due to a sudden adjustment I had to make in my life after transferring school. Granting all this, I wouldn't consider myself to be a sensational and topnotch writer but neither would I deem myself to be an inexperienced novice.

Every single human being lives by certain principles. This also means people have different personalities and opinions. Based on my experience as a minority living in United States, I came to appreciate the struggles I faced in my life. The reason is struggles positively shape my goals and desires in life. I believe one thing that sets me apart from other candidates applying to the University of California is contributing positive aspects to society.

Wow. This word has never contained such an ominous, yet monotone, power about it. The transition from high school to college has been a leap. My expectations were anything but true. I never expected it being such a difficult time to work as a manager full time, and being a full time college student. Full-time is ironic. I think now it should be drained-time. Another thing I never suspected to be true was the amount of reading I would have daily. It is three chapters on this book about how horrible school is, then it is 10 pages of how to be an amazing reader, lets not forget that I still have fifty pages of math jargoon to get through, in two days, days that I have class and work on. I rarely find myself complaining out loud. This is my life.

I have decided to go back to school to finish my degree. The first time I went back to school was from 1999-2002. I went to Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. I almost completed my degree before I had to move back to Tennessee. I then joined the Tennessee Army National Guard and became a full time National Guardsman. My family had told me several times that I need to complete my degree, but I never gave it much thought and never seemed to have time due to deployments. Time has flown by and I realize that I don’t want to allow the college credits that I earned to go to waste without a degree. My ultimate goal for using this degree along with almost twenty years experience in human resources is to start my second career working

Although I have always wanted to earn a college degree, other priorities in life required