My Educational Journey

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The common threads that connects my experiences, personally and educationally is my love of learning, my drive to achieve greatness, and pride of my family to preserve in the face of adversity. I look for security when making major decisions in my life. Those decisions are usually based on their effect on me being able to continue my educational dreams and the impact that the decision will have on my personal finances. If any decision that I am thinking about making has any negative effects, in either of my areas of importance, I will completely disregard that choice in lure of my ambitions and goals. Throughout my life I have had many jobs, but only one brief career. With some much uncertainty in the job market it has been important to me to continue my educational journey as I seek to set myself apart from other candidates. In order to obtain a college degree I must evolve my love of learning into a career-oriented driven task with emphasis on becoming a well-rounded individual. The next thread to remain while enduring discontinuity in my life is my drive to achieve. Growing up in a single parent household was financially stressful. I always wanted to have a better life for myself in my adult years than I did as a child. Though I have faced my fair share of adversity I have to remember that I am attempting to achieve a feat that very few people in my family have achieved; a college …show more content…

Never wanting to get complacent with my various situations and predicaments I looked to keep busy. However throughout my life, including the present, I have come to realize that the discontinuities I have dealt with have shaped me personally, emotionally, and physically. From the mental aspect of being homeless at the beginning of this semester I had to keep my goals and ambitions in perspective while faced with the uncertainty of my future living conditions once

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