Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • Free Essays • My Term Papers • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - Education college college Every person who begins a college career has a multitude of reasons for doing so. Some people do it because they are expected to get a college degree. Others do it hoping for a better life than they could have without a college degree. I am not entering college for either of these reasons. I am a high school dropout who believes I can do better than I did. Therefore, my reasons for beginning college are some what different than the average person starting college for the first time. I have something to prove to myself. I want to prove that I can earn a college degree. I am beginning college after a long hiatus from the academic world. You see I dropped out of high school in 1973 after completing my sophomore year. I was young and in love with the man to whom I am still married. School was never a problem for me, however; I was eager to begin my adult life and high school was not part of my plan. I wanted children right away. Subsequently I gave birth to my first child, Tosha, in 1974 and education became the furthest thing from my mind. After all, I had a baby to care for and love. Twenty-two months later I had a son, Jason. I was a stay at home mom with two children. I didn’t begin work until both of them were school-aged. I held various jobs until 1985 when I became employed at Andover Togs in Pisgah. I still had not completed my high school education at this point. My children had always urged me to get my GED. I had excuse after excuse for not pursuing my Graduation Equivalency. That is until Tosha had almost driven me crazy. I agreed to go just to shut her up. Even after receiving my GED in 1990, I never thought of going to college. I was content with my job. Unfortunately, like so many other textile workers I lost my job in the fall of 1999 when Andover closed. I signed up for unemployment and learned about the WIA program. I was unsure about going to college. I had always wanted to be in a field that involved helping people, even though I had never held such a position. Nursing seemed like a great career, but WIA would not pay for a degree over two years in length. Therefore, Emergency Medical Technician, or EMT, training was the place I chose to start on my way to a nursing degree. I wasn’t sure I would be able to do the work. Even with this uncertainty I was determined to give it a whirl. What did I have to lose? I also determined that I could finally prove to myself that I was capable of getting a degree despite being over forty, jobless, and out of school longer than I cared to think about. I may not be the typical college student; but with one semester behind me my confidence in my ability to succeed is growing. I know that I am at a disadvantage because I’m not fresh out of high school or blessed with having few or no responsibilities. I have bills, a husband and many other things that can’t, or won’t, be ignored. However, I am determined that I will acquire my degree, because I have something to prove. I can’t disappoint myself. Bibliography: Word Count: 738
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