Controlling Your Destiny Analysis

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Have you ever felt so depressed that you wanted to give up? In What It’s Like to Be the First Person in Your Family to Go to college, Liz Riggs acknowledges the hardships many first generation college students face. These students become so overwhelmed that they begin to contemplate the idea of finishing school. Correspondingly, In Controlling Your Destiny, Guadalupe Quintanilla reports that she was the architect of her own destiny despite the never ending contradictions (330). An overview of both Controlling your Destiny and What It’s Like to Be the First Person in Your Family to Go to College emphasizes the inevitable challenges that first generation [college] students face. However, many prevail and become successful by navigating through these challenges. …show more content…

I knew that my family was having financial hardships already and I did not want to add anymore on. My family always wanted me to go to college but we never knew how we were going to afford it; my grades weren’t perfect nor did I play sports. Things soon took a sharp turn when I received a positive result from a pregnancy test.

The thoughts on furthering my education soon vanished. How could I go to school when things needed to be done? I needed to work in order to provide for my son. Society tore me down, teen moms can’t make it in this world, they’re narcissists. How is she going to take care of a child when she is one? I spent countless amount of hours crying. I knew I had to finish school, despite the constant criticism. When I first applied to school, I was nervous. I felt like such an outsider, no one else has a child. Who can I relate to? I wanted to drop out before I even started. Everyone was right, I can’t do

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