My mother, Valerie Ramillon, was born in St-Julien, France, close to the Swiss border. She went to Catholic school as a child and went on to Boarding School at 14 in order to study languages. She developed a passion for the English language at a young age and decided to attend the University of Savoy, France so she could become an English teacher.
Savoy is a cultural region in the South East of France. She chose this University because it was a beautiful area close to her hometown. Her parents agreed to help pay for her apartment and other essentials like food and books/school supplies (University education is free in France). She has a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature and Arts and went to Teaching School for 1 year. She ended up becoming a teacher but not to kids like she wanted to. Instead, she taught English to adults.
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She had to learn the history of England and the United States of America, phonetics, and throughout the year she had to study and write essays on three English or American classics, including Lord of the Flies, The Moonstone, The Great Gatsby, Passage to India and The Red Badge of Courage... however, Shakespeare was mandatory every year.
Outside of the classroom, my mom would go to parties, go hiking, go to the movies, theater, gym, and most importantly, STUDY. “I liked to meet people from all around the world on campus and at parties,” she said. My mom chose to learn English because it was her passion and she loved the language. Her first English teacher was from Oahu, Hawaii and she was fun. Her teaching methods were unconventional and made my mother want to become a teacher as well.
“College was not fun”, my mom said “ studying was hard and competition intense, but if I could do it all over again, I definitely would. It was an amazing and enriching life changing experience
In order to fulfill her dream, she went to school unlike other girls. She learned academic subjects like Latin and Greek. More
college. Even though she might have grown up with a hard life, she fought for different ways to
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).
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.
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.
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
University of Grenoble and Sorbonne junior year and then for her senior year she attended the
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
“I want to go to college for Game Design, Visual Basics. But my main goal is Graphic Design.” She said, smiling. “I was always fascinated with the way the digital world works, and I have been playing video games since I was 5. It was a very important part of my life, and it helped me realize that I want this to be my career. It’s also a great stress reliever!” She said, laughing. As we reached the part where I asked her what made her decide to want to go to college, she became serious for a moment. “I believe that it all comes down to family matters. With that being said,I want to be the successful young lady that my mom, dad, brother, and sister know I can be. I want to be a role model to my siblings, and also I want to make my parents proud of me.” She smiled and crossed her legs as I went to the next question. “What colleges did you apply for?” I asked her. She thought about her answer for a moment, before she finally spoke. “I have applied to Monroe, my main reason being that my mother went there and I want to follow in her footsteps. I am considering Mercy, since Mr. Frum said that it was a beautiful campus, as well as the fact that a friend of his went there for game design, and now he is successful and happy in his field. I found that to be very cool.” As we began wrapping up the interview, I asked her one last
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
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
I knew college was going to change me in many ways. Yet, after my family and I restructured our collective and individual emotional reactivity over the three years that I was away at school, I believed my work in that department was done. I thought transiting into college was difficult, however, I found myself once again unprepared for the aftershock that rocked my family once I return from school. I left college a strong, independent, mature, and differentiated person, or at least I kind of did.
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)
She enjoys the English classes as she believes it is not only about learning a language but also about learning a different culture.
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.