Reflective Essay: Participating In The Theft Program

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Participating in the lift program will help me out in so many ways. What the lift program dose is during the summer for new students it allows you to take two of the classes I need as a freshmen at gateway that way when I start in the fall I have those classes taken care of so it means two loess things I have to worry about and its free, and as I have learned anything helps. Being the youngest of seven kids life Wasn’t as easy as people assumed it sounds. None of my brothers and sisters graduated from high school so being the first was a big deal and the closer the time came the more I realized just how much of a big deal it was. I started thinking about college early on as a freshman but I had to learn in order to make it to college I had to pass high school first. I knew going to a big school with my friends was going to distract me so I went to metro tech high school because I didn’t know …show more content…

Junior year I took the early childhood course and got my certification. I knew from 8th grade that would be the career I wanted. Junior year I got my first job at subways and it was working out but just as I was getting used to the scheduled I had I was in a terrible hit and run accident and I missed a lot of school. That accident set me back a lot I had finally an SAT testing. When I went back to school I had to wear a neck brace, already having ADHD made school hard enough but being restricted by the brace made it harder. Suddenly studying and focusing in class seemed impossible. When sat came around I still had the brace while I was recovering from head trauma as well so that didn’t make matters easy. I was uncomfortable and couldn’t concentrate and I became more aggrieved and annoyed and giving up seemed like my best option at that point. When the end of the year came I was relieved but I knew coming back senior year how hard school would be. Work wasn’t easy either I

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