My Goals For College Essay

Since a very young age I've been through a lot of hard times and struggles. I moved many times as a child to a lot of different places and growing up the youngest out of five children which was pretty rough for me. My mother was also a single parent and did all she could for us without any of my father's help. One of my biggest struggles was when my mom passed away from a terminal disease called sarcoidosis on March 20, 2011. I have been trying my hardest to reach my goals to make her proud. I am determined to accomplish my long and short term goals for a better life in my near future for me and my loved ones.

One of my first and most important goals that I have been yearning for is my high school diploma. My freshmen year of high school did not go well for me. I was placed in behavior disability classes because of my bad behavior in school after a couple of weeks into the semester. When they placed me in the behavior disability classes I began to lose focus on why i was coming to school. I would come just to misbehave, because that's what I was classified as. I didn't care about learning or doing my assignments that they had for me. I would constantly get in trouble with my teachers and my mom for the same thing the I deeply regret now. Later , on at the end of the semester my mom passed away and I had to make a choice to stay in North Chicago or move to Dolton with my cousin.

My cousin opened my eyes to a lot of different things with the time I spent with her. I started going to church and I joined the choir and everything but I didn't change any of my bad ways in school. My sophomore year was basically a repeat of my freshman year. After a couple of weeks I was placed back in behavior disability classes because I still didn't take school serious and I did what