Dylon Garrison College Essay Ever since I was a young I always wanted to have a nice, expensive, and brand new car. Just the feeling behind riding in one of these cars alone made me want to get this nice car for myself to drive. My mom had a mustang and a Camaro at one point, and I just loved the feel of riding in a nice car. The day I turned 16 I received a 2000 Chevy Tahoe. The old thing was blue and scratched up all on the body. The interior is another story. It was torn and old, one of the door panels even came off and my back passenger door handle broke off. There are a few good things about my car, don’t get me wrong I was very grateful for getting a free car! The day I got that old beat up Tahoe is the day I decided to go to college …show more content…
My parents wanted me to learn responsibility and hard working. Having to go work late while all of my friends go out and party was rough. While everyone had fun, I had to work. Having to work for what i wanted shaped my life to help me convert in to life as a young adult. I have the desire to be a big man in our economy, I want to go through college, get my business degree and then go out to start my own business to become a young wolf on the market. I want to make my business something useful at the time but not something that other people have, I want to make my business original and the best of the best. I see stories all the time about young people with one dream grow up and become rich just by a simple idea they had. Follow through and show persistence is all you will need in order to achieve your goals. I wanted to go to college from ninth grade, unfortunately I wasn’t given much knowledge about college until last year. I didn’t know I needed my GPA at all in order to go to college and so I was unprepared and have to try to play the catch up game in order to get a high enough GPA to attend college. I have made a lot of progress coming from a 2 GPA to a 3 GPA in one year. My cumulative GPA is a 2.4 though, and I am working hard to get that up. My mom went to college for 8 years and now is making over 100,000 a
When I was fourteen I began the search for a vehicle. I want to find an older truck or muscle car to fix up and have done by the time I got my driver’s license. So every day I would search the web for what would be the best looking, easiest to work on, and cheapest vehicle I could find. I fell in love with the look of the square body Chevy short bed trucks and it was all the things I was looking for; the hunt was on for the one for me.
My parents have always pushed me to be better than they were. They knew that if I wanted to be successful I needed to go to college. In highschool, they always made me put my education before anything else. My parents didn’t go to college so they would always tell me to not make that mistake because their lives could have been easier if they would of just invested a few more years into their education. They would also tell me about all the opportunities that missed out on because they decided not to further their education.
For a young adult buying a car is a big step into growing up because after a car the next step is buying a house or renting an apartment. I made the right choice by selling my old car because now I do not have to deal with the headaches or fear of my car breaking down on my way to work or school. I stand by my decision knowing that my car will last me many years to come. Also, my mom loves driving my car and occasionally we would switch cars during the week. Her car is a little old and driving it around worries me about breaking down on me, but seeing how happy she driving my car makes it all worth
I believe in doing what you enjoy. I believe in not letting others influence what you like. I had a cousin once tell me that getting a longboard was stupid and I’d never use it, it’s now something I ride very often. A group of my friends and I would go ride two or three times a week. Before I got in a car accident and my car was totaled, my friends often joked my 2000 Toyota Corolla was a piece of junk, I wish I still had that instead of a 2006 Highlander. It had character, the couple of pins holding the cloth up, the old side mirrors that you had to adjust with a lever on the inside. It was my first car and I didn’t care what it looked like or what people said, it was mine and I loved driving that old thing. I firmly believe that if you want to dress or look a certain way, then you do it. I have family and friends tell me I should cut my hair, but it’s what I like and it’s my hair so I’ll do what I like. People telling me to cut it makes me want to keep it even more. Freshman year I would wear shorts in the winter, everyone would tell me it was stupid, and I was crazy, but it was what I felt comfortable in and it was my choice. I respect people that stand up for people that stand up for what they believe, even if they’re the only one. The people that hold firm, no matter the consequences. A recent example is the students at the community college in Oregon. Those students knew that if they said “Yes I am a Christian” they would be shot, and they didn’t let it affect them, they held firm in what they believe. I can’t imagine having a
When I was little, mother always told me, “Take on the chances that I never had and make me proud.” I want to start by attending college in order to show my mother that I will continue with the education she was not able to have. Because my mother is always my focus; I go to college to show her that I want to give back to her all these years and time she spent on me. She did not give up on me, nor did she give up on herself. I realized that my mother tried the best she could in order to give me the life I have right now. She is my role model and inspiration. I want to prove to her that raising me all these years was worth all her time and effort. As her first child, I want
My mother's’ biggest fear is that I won’t attend college just like she hadn’t. I look back at my mom's life and think what she could have done to graduate and to further her education. Did she think about her life in the future? No, she only thought about her getting out of Worland High school for good. She always tells me, “Monica don’t give up on school. Look at my life, you don’t want to struggle with money and you most definitely don't want to be a single mother like me, without an education. If I could, I would go back and graduate to make our life better, but it is, was it is. If you don’t want the life I have graduate and further your education. Believe in yourself.” I have looked into so many grants i could in order to attend college and it turns out I could get grants for basically anything. I started looking into grants at the age of fourteen, just in case I didn’t have the money to put me through college, and turns out that was the smartest idea I have ever had. I’m not rich, so I have to think about all possibilities, just so I can to accomplish my dream. If I could give anyone any advice, it would have to be to my siblings and to all the people that are thinking about attending
Because both of my parents worked extremely hard their entire lives, they expect me to do the same. Ever since I was a young child, my parents started to teach me things about what they do. I was also very curious and asked a lot of questions. I remember when I was maybe eight or nine years old, sitting down at the dinner table with my mom while she explained genetics to me.
Success is the only word that comes to mind when I think about my future. All of my life I have dreamed of becoming a successful person who gives back to the community through counseling or social services. Growing up in the small town of Tulare has limited me to the amount of opportunities that I have. Many of my friends come from low-income families that have to use government services that provide financial support. Seeing the poverty around me is motivation for me to search for a better life. My community is not perfect, but I want to help it get one step closer to being there. In order to make this dream a reality, I will have to work hard and strive through college. I will do whatever it takes to achieve my goal, no matter what obstacles cross my path.
II first attended Academy of Art, knowing full well that A's were not given out likely, yet never considered not graduating. During my first year at the Academy of Art, I received financial help from my Mother. The Summer of 2012 is when I began working. I was unable to pay rent or bills, unless I worked thirty hours or more a week. I take full responsibility in letting my grades suffer under these conditions. I find working six to eight hours a day four to five days a week, and attending class and doing homework, extremely difficult. I piled too much on my plate at once. I came here as an unwilling college drop-out, in hopes of leaving as a college graduate. Neither of my parents attending college. Attending college was never pushed on my siblings or I. We were unprepared for
Due to our humble state, my parents were faced with under-employment and thus they were compelled to work for long hours and secure multiple jobs in order to make ends meet. My parents worked for more hours each day as compared to the parents of my classmates, this reduced their accessibility to me and my school. Moreover, given that there was no adult at home to compensate for my parents’ absence, there was also an overall reduction on the level of parental participation in my education. Thus, I had to come into terms with my situation and take responsibility of my grades and school homework. Undeniably, I was my own motivation.
They have accustomed me to certain standards, and I am used to putting my best work forward for assignments. Over the years, they have expected me to do well in school and get high grades, and I am supposed to live up to their standards. The third and final influential factor of my life is my ambition and will to work hard. I push myself to higher standards in life because I realized that what I want will not be handed to me. Coming from a middle-class family where only one parent has a college degree, I have come to understand the value of an education.
Tony Hsieh the CEO of Zappos once said “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” My dream job is to own my own business someday to become an entrepreneur. “Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision of something and a want to create” once said by David Karp, Tumblr founder and CEO. To take responsibility to be the person that is the leader of my team. To help my vision come to life and be successful at it, I will need to reach my goals and gain knowledge. My wiliness to help others find their goals in life and them to accomplish them.
My parents raised me to be independent, which I can say that I am. I learned that I cannot always rely on other people and that I need to do things for myself, I control my own destiny. If I needed or wanted something done, then I would have to do it myself. I got a job in order to take my financial independence from my parents, one step further. At the same time, I was learning responsibility.
Both of my grandparents raised my own parents when being young kids into having discipline, responsibilities and obligations. Back in the day, the years were different and it required a lot more education/principles. Education has been one of the most maybe top five of me, my character. Since what I remember by parents always taught me the right path, not wrong, they always tried to fix my mistakes so I wouldn 't repeat them or make myself look bad in front of other people. They wanted me to be an educated person with principles, but I never understood why
We were responsible for managing our homework and schedules. We were not nagged into studying, and did not rely on their reminders to do our work. This was not a burden for me, but a freedom. They encouraged us to put every effort we could into our work, but if we didn’t we were the ones who would bear the consequences. We were punished for never “encouraged” to do well with money or treats. My mother and father emphasized the personal responsibility and consequences of education, instead of using material items as incentives. Because I felt responsible for my education, I wanted to do the best possible. I knew my efforts in school reflected on me personally, and I wanted to do well. I knew that if I could not get A’s in my classes because of a difficulty understanding or learning material, or for other similar reasons, it was fine, but if I only did not get A’s because I did not put effort into my work, it was my fault, my responsibility, and my regret I had to deal with. This understanding and outlook has helped me to do well in school, and motivated me to be a determined, hardworking