Once I remembered my dream and put things into perspective, I registered for my “remedial” classes. After the pity party was over I remembered that dream when I was a child. After I started going to my classes, I started to plan towards that dream I once had as a child. I then made that dream my goal and I knew form that moment on that I would follow that plan all the way to law school. “How good you are in the beginning does not measure how great you can become.” There really is an enormous amount of truth behind this statement.
The University of La Verne’s core values have been present in my life throughout the years. Even though my mother wanted to attend college as I did, she didn’t have the option to so and that’s why she encourages me to try my hardest in school. When my mother was young, she dreamed of attending college in the United States and getting a job so she could support her family, whereas when I was small, I didn’t think school was important. Although my mother only attended elementary school, school was one of her top priorities because she felt like it was an honor to go to school, and if you went to school, you were considered to be lucky. My mother was an over-achiever and saw education as a way of showing that she was better than most.
Returning Back to School I graduated back in 1984. While I was in high school, I had never thought about college because I was lead to believe that for me to go to college I had to have scholarships. So I decided that I will have to make do on what I can do for myself. Well back in 2000, a friend asked me why I haven’t decided to go back to school. She told me that I should seriously consider to think about what I can accomplish for myself and my children by returning back to school for a better career, so we talked about what possible careers that is good for me.
Going back school to be a teacher was not my first decision. My first decision was to be a nurse’s assistant or something within the health care field. Somewhere along the way I changed my decision and decided to be a teacher. My reason for the change of heart was that several of my relatives said that I should go to school to be a teacher because I was good with children and children seemed to look up to me as a role model. So I enrolled into Lenoir Community College and decided to major Early Childhood Education.
As a teenage mother I wanted to go into college knowing exactly what I wanted to do. I prayed about it, and after a couple months passed by, we noticed it was taking one of the lymph nodes in my neck was taking a while to go back down, after having strep throat. The doctor ordered an ultrasound. While I was patiently waiting for my name to be called back I began thinking about a career as a sonographer. Soon after we got there my name was called back.
My mom is the first in her family to have children to go to college. I feel that that is a huge accomplishment because most parents most parents don’t instill in their kids that college is important, but I’m glad my mom
Growing up, my mom pretty much told me that if I was not joining the military then I was for sure going to college. And I was okay with that. I knew that going to college would give me a better job so I could maintain a stable lifestyle; but that’s the thing, it never crossed my mind that I need to go to college for a better education. In today’s society, in order for people to have a good job outside of professional sports, music entertainment, and military, they have to have a college education in order for them to maintain a decent job. So far into my college experience, I can tell that some of my classmates and peers have that mindset.
Being the first person in my family to get a college degree makes me feel so good. Setting example for children and letting them see that mommy can do it is priceless. The things that we do in life as far as school wise are thing we can take us to the next level is just a lot of us lose hope we are not sure where to go. I though getting a high school diploma was fine for me. I felt school was not for me because I have dyslexic and, I feel people just don’t want to help me.
All about Me Jennifer Webb COLL 100 I026 Fall 11 American Public University Eleanor Hewitt My name is Jennifer Webb and I am going to write an essay about why I decided to go back to school. I got tired trying to found a decent job, I wanted my daughters to follow in myself steps and go to college. I learned that most jobs are looking for some kind of college degree. I have been out of school for awhile and so I was a little nervous but after getting started I feel more comfortable with going to school. I want my daughters to always know that you can never get to old to learn new things.
The choice of even going to college is entirely one’s own choice. High school is like a mother holding her child’s hand helping her child cross the street into another street called college. College itself prepares one for the future, a future with no mommy and daddy to hold your hand or guide you. I can recall my first day of high school like it was yesterday. Faculty and teachers were right that the four years of high school will be over before we know it.