Why I Chose To Attend TNCC
To be motivated to do something you have to be passionate about what your doing. After I finish high school I wanted to go back to school to persue my career but I didn’t have the money to go back . I had to find a job to help pay the bills I was so unhappy, I felt like my life had no value without a proper education. When I saw others going to school I would feel so bad knowing that its something that I wanted to do so bad and not able to do. There were times in my life I wish I was one of those people in my neighborhood that was going back to school.
One day while coming home from work on the bus, I got a call from my eldest sister telling me to meet her at the library at first I was hesitant but then I just did as she had ask me. When I got there she was sitting there with her personal computer . She look at me and said am going to register you at a TNCC for classes, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing she must have got tired of …show more content…
To know that we were all in the same class having goals to continue our education and to see that they weren’t persistent and determine to do what it takes to fulfil their dreams. It made me realize that achieving my goals, to go to college and finishing college was more than just saying words. I had to do my class work, be at class and turn in my work when they were due, so that I could get good grades. It even required me to get help in areas of my work where I was weak at out of class on my own time, to better improved myself. Because I didn’t want to be the same illiterate person that I was for the rest of my life. To be around my family at times and we are having a conversation and they start using word that I don’t know, was also one of my motivation to stay in college. Everyday I wanted to grasp as much as could, I would ask alot of question because I had so much to learn in so little
To be motivated to do something you have to be passionate about what your doing. After I finish high school I wanted to go back to school to persue my career but I didn’t have the money to go back . I had to find a job to help pay the bills I was so unhappy, I felt like my life had no value without a proper education. When I saw others going to school I would feel so bad knowing that its something that I wanted to do so bad and not able to do. There were times in my life I wish I was one of those people in my neighborhood that was going back to school.
One day while coming home from work on the bus, I got a call from my eldest sister telling me to meet her at the library at first I was hesitant but then I just did as she had ask me. When I got there she was sitting there with her personal computer . She look at me and said am going to register you at a TNCC for classes, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing she must have got tired of …show more content…
To know that we were all in the same class having goals to continue our education and to see that they weren’t persistent and determine to do what it takes to fulfil their dreams. It made me realize that achieving my goals, to go to college and finishing college was more than just saying words. I had to do my class work, be at class and turn in my work when they were due, so that I could get good grades. It even required me to get help in areas of my work where I was weak at out of class on my own time, to better improved myself. Because I didn’t want to be the same illiterate person that I was for the rest of my life. To be around my family at times and we are having a conversation and they start using word that I don’t know, was also one of my motivation to stay in college. Everyday I wanted to grasp as much as could, I would ask alot of question because I had so much to learn in so little