Valerie Ramillon Biography

She went on to graduate high school and attend a community college. Family problems were beginning to be too much by then so she decided to seek solace from her English professor. The conversation resulted in her moving in with her professor; this had a critical impact on her life. Her professor provided a stable home and encouraged her to pursue writing at a four-year university.

She enjoys the English classes as she believes it is not only about learning a language but also about learning a different culture.

college. Even though she might have grown up with a hard life, she fought for different ways to

I came to college knowing, that so much of what I was over the first eighteen years of my life would be put to the test. Not simply because I was a conservative, in a liberal environment, but because I would be faced with four years, in a place that was in such

To support herself and fuel her efforts to get an education, Hurston worked a variety of jobs including a maid for an actress in a touring Gilbert and Sullivan group (Biography). After suffering an appendicitis attack, she caught a lucky break. She was accepted into Harvard University in nineteen eighteen and she had cut all ties to the Gilbert and Sullivan troupe (Lillios). Two years later, she graduated Harvard university in nineteen twenty and then moved to the Harlem neighborhood where the Harlem renaissance and the arts were thriving (Biography).

Finally, she decided to go to John Murray Anderson drama school when she moved to New York (tc).these schools she hoped would get her where she wants to be. All of it really did helped her big time of her dream but it never helps when people don’t want you to be there in the easy way. She was not considered “beautiful” so no one thought of what she could accomplish.

University of Grenoble and Sorbonne junior year and then for her senior year she attended the

I interviewed my mom according to questions I have prepared many question starting with,how was your first experience with college?”So excited with being by myself” … “ I was nervous about the classes i would have “... When it came to midterms i was stressed, it was hard for me to handle but i still got through it on my own and handled my responsibilities dealing with me getting through school.” i went on to ask her for any advice that she would want to be given her response was “To all the students that are graduating next year ,make early decisions so that you’ll be prepared for .life ,fore everything won't be laid out for you like always.” After all my research my intake on it all is that i still think college is for me,as a person i want to further myself and my profession as being a writer

After a moment of silence, she smiled. “My dad never went to college, but he always inspires me everyday to go and better myself there. And my mother did go to college, and she is a walking example of how I can be in the future. Not only do I have them as a backbone, but I have my own personal strive to want to go. I have a fear of being a failure, not being successful, but I know that college is a one way ticket to brighter future, not only for myself, but for my future children as

Attending college has been one of the best decisions I have ever made. It has opened up many doors and options in my life. Not only am I the first in my family to graduate high school, but I am also the first to go to college. My parents come from third world countries and traveled all the way to the United States so that my younger brother and I could have a better chance at life. My biggest motivator is my family; they are the reason why I work so hard.

When she returned to Boston she asked her grandmother if she could start another school in her grandmother’s dining room. After a bit of opposition, her grandmother agreed. There, she taught until 1835, but she became sick with tuberculosis and also exhaustion had set in. Because of her illness she closed the school and then traveled to Europe to recuperate, under the advice of her friends and family. She again returns to Boston, months later, but this time she found herself with a very large inheritance that would allow her to love comfortably for the rest of her life.4

College changed my whole perspective of how I looked at life. I also figured out that not everyone was who I thought they were. Everyone learns this at different times and Welty found this out

Burns graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1902, but continues to seek for knowledge. She later went to Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, University of Berlin, University of Bonn, and University of Oxford in Germany. After being educated from multiple colleges, she went seeking for opportunities for jobs, but realized that there’s are very limited options for women to choose from. Lucy taught English at Erasmus Hall, a public school in Brooklyn even though teaching wasn’t what she really wanted to pursue as a job career. (American)

When I started college, I was quickly awakened from my little fantasy. I thought college was going to be glamorous and just loads of fun. I understood that college classes were going to be more difficult, but I was a pretty awesome student in high school. I thought that being in a long term relationship in college was going to be nothing, but fun. I thought that the friends I made in the first week were going to be my lifelong friends. I thought that the fact that I had everything planned when I came into college meant that none of that would change. Here are the things that I wish people would have told me before I went to college.

Hearing so many good things and bad things about college I didn’t know what to expect and look forward to. That change my junior year knowing different college come every year I didn’t really pay it any mind what college I wanted to go to until ODU, Virginia State University and Virginia Teach came. It was Virginia State first year of visiting out school and I knew I wanted to go there I start getting e excited for college that were talking about their experience at college and what to look for when we graduated if we decided to go to college. Eager to start a new chapter college sound like it could be a little nerve wrecking but I thought I could handle it.