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constant buzz. I could feel my heart beating through my chest. Thump..thump...thump. I knew it was time. The gondola passed the final pole holding it up. I was just 20 feet away from were the gondola would turn around. This was my last chance to go back. I heard a loud sound. I was jolted forward and the gondola door opened. I stood up, only to notice my legs were jello. My whole body felt asleep. I painfully staggered forward. As soon as the door opened, I felt a cold rush of

My Challenge My reason for going back to college is as an African American women born and raised by my father and mother in a religious environment. I saw the need for change to better myself and stop begin a part of the statistic, but be an inspiration to my family children, grandchildren for a better life and leave behind a legacy behind for them to follow. At the age of 57 I have look back with emptiness and realize that I have spend my life serving others, and have forgotten the

Motivation There is a ton of things that motive me to go back to college. One would be my daughter; she inspires me in so many ways. Just as much as she looks up to me, I look up to her. Here lately, we have been dealing a lot with her health problems that we have found in the past 5 years. Even though her body is giving her trouble, she is going to college for Hotel Restaurant Administration and holding down a job. I am so proud of her. Then there is my son, He went to college for two years and

If you live in the D.C. metro area, there’s a fairly high chance that you may have heard go-go music. You may have been walking down the street in D.C. and heard people banging on trash cans and not even realized what kind of music it was. A Home to a well educated black middle class because of institutions like Howard University, DC, unfortunately, experienced a similar urban issue that was the same as with many US cities beginning in the late 1960s. After the assassination of Martin Luther King

First I wold let them know that I chose to go back to school not them and that I want to make a better living for me and my kids. Then I would let them know that I have to set aside the going out and traveling for a while at least till I get the hang of everything, I have three kids I tell them everyday that school is important because without reading,writing,and arithmetic. You will need these three things in order to complete schooling. I also state to my kids that If you do not graduate from any

here 20 years later I realize the frame of mind wasn't there. So if i could go back to then and change that "attitude" i had about school and what it could mean for not just me but my career, my family and my personal knowledge; I would. Looking at the younger, I would say these words of encouragement. "I know why you want to go to school, But things aren't always easy in the next few years. You will have major set backs and failed attempts and feel like giving up. School isn't whats portrayed in

job one day, but I must first go back to school and get my Master's degree. He is not the only person that has hounded me about going back to school. Many other managers, administrators and even family members have said the same. Clearly they see something in me that I had not quite yet see in myself. I think I am finally coming to the realization that if they think I can obtain a Master's degree, then I certainly possess the skills, knowledge and motivation to go back to school. It is time for me

My family loves to go back to el Salvador to visit family. We go there for vacations each year in the summer. The past two years we went. My father’s cousin recommended a resort. He said “for your children’s to enjoy and for you guys to relax”. He also paid for our stance in the hotel which was 1 week and 3 days. He paid for all my family but my dad paid for my grandmas because he said that it was already too much. At first it was a little challenging trying to find the place, because it’s far from

Let's go back in time... It's 2007, the iPhone is just being introduced. Before the iPhone was released do you remember the phones that were used? Our interactions were dramatically different. Do you remember having to click 3 or 4 times on your flip phone just to find the right letter? Do you remember the first iPhone and how slow it was compared to today's phones? The world was a different place. Thanks to innovative companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, and others we have been able to

People should look to their peers, family, professors and advisors for the tools to be able to surmount such a task. There are many options available for those who wish to go back to school or those students who need some extra cash. It is very important to use the resources that are provided and to take every opportunity to be able to better ourselves. If we look to the past to see how others have achieved their goals, we