How To Quit College

Another challenge that I encountered, and which had discouraged me the most and made quit school for a year came after my first year of college. I was accepted into my dream university, the best one (or at least that’s what I would like to think so). I must admit that the first year was difficult but going to that school was all I had ever wanted, so I worked through it. It was the best experience of my life and I felt like I was on top of the world. I felt so powerful and accomplished knowing that I went there, thinking it was an advantage over everyone else who didn’t go there. I would wear the school’s logo with pride and even more often when I came home for breaks. Towards the end of my first year, I fell from my cloud and crashed fast and painful and didn’t get back up. My dad had lost his job. My parents were helping me pay for most of my college since I didn’t qualify for financial aid. This meant that I was not going to return for my second year. I cried and felt hopeless. It was the worst thing that had ever happened to me. I had never experienced such a failure and I didn’t know what to do. I decided that if I couldn’t get a degree from that university, I might as well quit. And that’s what I did. I came back home defeated and that summer I found a job at a fast food restaurant. It was the worst job and it sucked. I knew that I could find a …show more content…
I did not show any passion or perseverance to work through tough situations or to keep trying at hobbies I liked. I just accepted my circumstances and didn’t do anything to change them. I didn’t find any alternatives to pay for my school. Maybe someone who was gritty might have learned from that and worked to overcome it, but not me. How different my circumstances would have been if hadn’t given up so easily and gone back to the same shitty job. Or even how better things would have been if I had enrolled back in college right away and not had wasted a