Sacred Heart University: A Short Story

Throughout my life I faced a lot of challenges. I had to overcome the obstacle that was on my way. The obstacle made me stronger and made me the person who I am right

Life is a journey filled of many surprises, and while one day you will lose 5 bucks, the other day you will find 10. Whether you broke your leg, you got the flu, or you got a bad grade, I believe that we can always make the best of every situation.

I spent a year of college trying to be African. Afrobeats vibrated through the walls of Beets-Veenstra’s first floor dorm. My Christian college had an open-door policy. Walking past the ninth door on the left gave visitors an eyeful of my black hips swaying in circles as if an invisible hula-hoop entangled my waist. I had to get the moves I learned at the parties right. The beats were different from the hip hop music I regularly danced to. They were smooth tempos, but faster than reggae and bodies rocked with more control. My roommate complained about the hours I spent dancing in front of the mirror. We were not flat mates the next the year.

In life there will be a lot of obstacles. Some obstacles just come out of nowhere, and some you may bring upon yourself. But without struggle you will not learn how to take care of yourself. Life is not always fare, you have to take the good with the bad. Be strong and keep moving. You will get there eventually if you stay focused.

Dallas Baptist University has been at the top of my college enrollment list for quite some time. I fell in love with the campus after my visit in November of 2015. The chapel was the number one thing that caught my eye. The beauty and the structure was just breath taking. I could see myself attending the services and worshiping along with newly made friends. I have been in contact with a current student at DBU, and she has been very helpful in answering my questions and encouraging me to attend the college. There are many reason why i would love to go to DBU. First, the school is very diverse, and it will be nice to see so many different personalities and cultutes around the campus. Second,

In my life, I have faced many obstacles and have had to rise above those obstacles. The one that was the hardest for me is when I had to transfer from Believers Fellowship Academy the school was almost ready to shut down and was struggling to survive and didn’t make it one. I had to transfer to Sturgis Brown High School. When I went to talk to the counselor with my mother I found out that I would have to take a test for every class that was a requirement freshman year. To go into the year that I was supposed to go into which was my sophomore year I would have to either retake those classes, take these test, or enter into a brand new school where I knew about three people as a freshman. I was already old for my class age if I went into a sophomore

Life is hard. It throws challenges at us in the blink of an eye, not caring how we handle those challenges, and then throws another. The challenges can be small or unnoticeable. On the other end, it can be life changing, from injuries to death of loved ones. These events are impossible to throw aside and how we handle them is how life changes.

II Timothy 2:15 (New International Version) states: “Do your best to present yourself to God as

How will I make the best of my time at Colorado Christian University? The same way I have made the best of the rest of my life. You see, I am very much the anomaly of almost every statistic on troubled teenagers. My childhood was not a pleasant one, as my mother’s second husband was not a very nice man. Because our family fell through the cracks in the Child Protective system, I found myself in a precarious position very early in life. Despite being a good student in high school, I was at the age of 16, a teenage runaway. While living on my own and working full time to support myself while finishing my junior and senior year in high school, I made every attempt to complete my education. However, life did end up getting the best of me, and I ended up dropping out of high school in my senior year, just three months shy of graduation.

As I reflect on my life, I remember seeing my momma go to college for the first time when I was 7 years

Eighteen deaths. Three tragedies. One Cowboy family. When a school has suffered as much as Oklahoma State, you have to wonder what it is about that place that still draws people to it? Most kids from my town find themselves at Texas Tech or Texas A&M. Why not follow them? The very first time I stepped on campus, I fell in love. From the flowers in front of the library to the trees that surround Theta Pond, everything about the campus was beautiful to me. More important than the beauty of the campus itself are the ethics for which it stands. The vision of Oklahoma State University is to “advance the quality of life in Oklahoma by fulfilling the instructional, research, and outreach obligations of a first-class, land grant educational system.”

I lived 30 min away from my school which made be involved with extracurriculars hard but that didn't stop me from doing the things i loved to do. Another thing that has been a difficult circumstance has been my two special needs sisters. I’m not going to lie they can be incredibly frustrating at times but they have allowed me to grow as a person. They forced me to be more patient and more understanding which really has allowed me to be more empathetic to everyone. The final circumstance i have had to overcome is by far the biggest. My mom died when I was 15 and going into my sophomore year. It cut me so deep. There were times where I felt so alone and I was very emotionally unstable even when I chose not to show that. This trauma lead to a dip in my grades during sophomore year. For all the pain and heartache it cause it did bring about some positives. It allowed me to see how much people mattered in my life as well as it made more caring for people in

Life is not always a straight path, and most of the time there are ridiculous obstacles in the way. Individuals handle life differently than others. Certain people handle problems badly, but others handle problems just fine. Some acceptable ways people overcome adversity is by embracing differences, having a positive attitude, and persevering to get through the obstacles/problems.

It has been said that life can never be carried out and truly lived to its fullest unless there has been some sort of suffering and pain. Mistakes are to be learned from, and a hard past can only result in a stronger present. Though many might find themselves alone in their misery the truth is they are not, everyone has struggles. We all have our ups and downs, but it is how we react to them that truly matters. Life is life and no matter what, giving up on lifelong dreams and aspirations because of a few bumps in the road should never be an option.

Life before graduation was a struggle for me. I lived in a home that seemed to bring me nothing but pain and anger. I watched someone close to me die little by little every day. I did not live a normal childhood because I was a