Overcoming Obstacles Of Pursuing A College Degree In College

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Perusing to obtain a college degree in engineering surely will not be a simple task. Yet, I have clashed with arduous challenges and hardships throughout my life. One issue I continually face is facing the battle of financial assistance, which will continue to grow throughout my years at college. Dealing with economic hardships didn’t affect me critically until after sixth grade when my parents divorced. It wasn’t only troublesome to deal with this fact on an emotional spectrum, but also in a financial perspective. My older sister, my younger brother, and I had to accept the fact that money will influence our everyday lives. We had to use food stamps for our groceries, had to withdraw from the amount of sports we could play, as well as the places we could go. Our mother had to enroll back into college (at the University of Akron) so she could afford to live a decent life while raising three kids. …show more content…

My mother received a Bachelor’s degree and therefore, moved up into a better position in her career. Now, I face the challenge of supporting myself, as an incoming freshman engineering student. It is my full responsibility to pay for college. My main goal for myself is to take out the minimal amount of student loans I can. Even though both of my parents are in a better position than they were at the time of the divorce, they aren’t on the level of supporting someone else on a financial need basis. This has been a motivational drive for me to perform exceptional in both the classroom as well as the

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