When I decided to attend college, I had to figure out how to apply for financial aid, and apply for college. I was accepted into Ferris with the college of retention and student success due to my low ACT score. As I mentioned I received a 4.00 my first semester, and gain admission to the college of Health Professions the semester after. I decided I was going to get my B.S. in Allied Health Science and my A.A.S in Radiography. Before starting the program, I knew of three of my friends who failed the program.…
In 2011 I gained admission into North Dakota State University, mentally I was not ready for college. Being accepted into North Dakota State University was a dream I was excited to leave high school. However, when I arrived on campus my first semester it was not how I expected it to be, classes got difficult and I had no family support. Soon I begin to skip class and got depressed, with that my grades dropped, I owed financial aid money I had to Leave school second semester of my freshman year to get a job and pay back the fund that I owed. My Family was still not there for me I became more depressed and unfocused when I started back at North Dakota State University in 2013.…
This is my first year of high school, and so far I am enjoying this year more than any of my previous years in elementary school at Aviston Elementary. In the past years, I was a stressed out loner who was easily annoyed by everything and could not get long-term projects done without having a melt down at some point. However, in this year that has changed. I have made a few friends who have stayed with me for the entire year, learned to tolerate immature, childish actions, and have not felt completely overwhelmed to this date. This year and previous years both had their moments, but I would not change anything that happened because they both helped make me who I am now.…
When the opportunity came to find community service hours for my Human Growth and Development class, I knew I wanted to help out somebody who works hard to provide me safety. I talked to my dad after finding out I needed hours and he advised me to talk to the sheriff. The sheriff told me that he would gladly appreciate my help and he decided on a task for me: washing patrol cars. I thought that washing cars seemed like an easy enough task. The day before my service my dad informed me that I needed to bring our car washing supplies from home with me to the sheriff’s office the next day.…
For as long as I can remember, as a child I was raised to believe that a man should be the king of his castle. When I was five years old, that statement became a fable to me. I felt the Judas kiss the day my dad left. His reign has ended as king of his castle. He relinquished his crown and abandoned his kingdom.…
I never thought I could feel so much happiness than when I knew I was impacting a child life for the better. I would rush home from school, change into my work uniform, and soak up as much sun as I possibly could knowing I wouldn’t see or feel its warmth for the rest of the day. My bleak attitude during depressing winter days completely revolved once I stepped into my classroom; every day thirteen chubby two-year old would run to me exclaiming how they missed me and how their scribbled drawings were just for me. Their parents saw my commitment and regularly told me stories about how their little one now knew the words “spectacular” and “illuminating” or they used the bathroom all by themselves singing the potty song I had made up the day before.…
It's 10:00 PM, and a woman is walking home alone. She has her keys clenched in her fist between her knuckles because she knows she always has to be on guard. "1 in 4 women," she thinks to herself, "it's only a matter of time. " It's midday, a black man is driving to work when he sees flashing lights in his rearview mirror. He pulls over, keeping his hands where the officer can see them.…
I’ve always been the black sheep of my family. I grew up only knowing adults who did physical labor or worked their way up in a technical profession. The only higher education anyone had was from the community college in town. My mom, sister, grandmothers, aunts, cousins were all young mothers; their work anchored in homemaking and part-time jobs. I had no idea, or encouragement, that I could ever make it to a traditional four-year university, let alone have the resources to pay for it.…
I lacked simple confidence, I would sit in the back of the classroom and not say a word. I figured if they can’t hear me, then I wouldn’t exist to no one. There was only one place where I felt more confidence about who I was, the pool was my, how you would say comfort place. I was able to swim to the very bottom and stay there for countless minutes thinking about my life, just enjoying the water on my skin and around me. Sometimes I would wish that I could just stay in the water forever and not have to attend class.…
I arose promptly at three in the morning. The sun had hours yet to make its presence, as I prepared to abandon my city, state, and country, everything I knew, for what then seemed like eternity. It was three in the morning however; my mind was circulating around a new frontier: Europe. The next few weeks would encompass some of the most influential and memorable experiences of my life.…
At the time I was a poor college student looking for a place to stay with my friends. We found an apartment for cheap. The rent was split equally between the four of us with one person just paying sixty dollars a month. In the apartment, there were plenty of windows that should light up the apartment nicely but despite that the house was still dim. None of us would have imagined that it was haunted.…
Enhancing intelligence is something that might be a special trait to you, something you can inherit and not know or you can work hard and become something great. As both of these stories, will have something in common if you have not read over it. Both explain a different variation of intelligence and show what they truly think about it. ” He explained that he didn’t like having non-engineers supervising engineers. Engineers shouldn't have to be supervised by managers with limited tech knowledge.…
At a branding, My cousins, siblings, family friends, and I jumped over the white wooden fence. When it was my sister's turn, she sprinted through the fresh smelling, short cut grass, leaped and landed, then she fell backwards, and let out a short almost whimper, almost like a puppy. Then everyone ran over, including one of my cousins who was carrying two red solo cup filled with sweet smelling vanilla ice cream, for me and her then my uncle carried her over to a chair. Looked at her foot and realized that it was broken. “ are you okay”…
My family has always been hard-working since they moved to the United States when they were in their adolescence, they moved here with their parents to work in the cotton fields. They would have to transition their lives to something new, my father was 14 and my mother was 16 when they started working to help their parents. I heard stories about the harsh conditions they would have to endure, but little did I know, I would too experience it later in my life and it has shaped me into a man. The year was 2012 when I first went with my father and sisters to find work.…
Once upon a time, I was a little girl. Just seven years old. Off on a new adventure to a new school, wondering if I would make friends. Or if they would already have friends. Or if my teachers would like me.…