Everyone has a dream or goal they wish to accomplish in their lifetime. Well as for me I haven’t thought about the future too much. I only have some things I want to do in my freshmen year and nothing beyond it. College was the breaking point of my isolation. The upbringing of my Vietnamese family has left me alone at home for most of my life. This left me with little interaction outside the house besides my computer. It may be one of the major reasons why expressing my opinions in writing pieces effectively is quite difficult for me. I believe college will help me develop the communication skills I desperately lacked when I was a child.
The obvious reason I landed inside English 95 is because I don’t know how to structure my essays effectively. …show more content…
Yet, there’s a distance between me and my family at the same time with strangers as well. The major I declared was specializing into communicating with others who struggle to express themselves because of health conditions or mental issues that came over time. I thought by choosing Communication Disorder as a major would clear up these confusions set up by language barrier in my family. That wasn’t the case though. My family kept to themselves as they kept me at home like a bird in a cage. People would invite me to hang out but I ended up staying home due to my parent lack of trust and the fear of having me kidnapped or worse. They told me, they felt I was going too much already even if I hadn’t gone out at all this month. Plus as a girl I should be careful around people. Since I was always kept alone with my grandma I became very independence of my own action from self-motivating myself to do homework to cleaning after myself. Which left me applying for college so I could go on and depend on someone other than myself. My family was nervous as hell because I would be out of the house more often at the same time excited and happy for me that I’m pursuing a higher education for my future. Here I am at college giving myself freedom of will and hope. This leaves me chasing after those social experience and potential friendship I could forge during my
The obvious reason I landed inside English 95 is because I don’t know how to structure my essays effectively. …show more content…
Yet, there’s a distance between me and my family at the same time with strangers as well. The major I declared was specializing into communicating with others who struggle to express themselves because of health conditions or mental issues that came over time. I thought by choosing Communication Disorder as a major would clear up these confusions set up by language barrier in my family. That wasn’t the case though. My family kept to themselves as they kept me at home like a bird in a cage. People would invite me to hang out but I ended up staying home due to my parent lack of trust and the fear of having me kidnapped or worse. They told me, they felt I was going too much already even if I hadn’t gone out at all this month. Plus as a girl I should be careful around people. Since I was always kept alone with my grandma I became very independence of my own action from self-motivating myself to do homework to cleaning after myself. Which left me applying for college so I could go on and depend on someone other than myself. My family was nervous as hell because I would be out of the house more often at the same time excited and happy for me that I’m pursuing a higher education for my future. Here I am at college giving myself freedom of will and hope. This leaves me chasing after those social experience and potential friendship I could forge during my