Pass-In-Review Nicholas Negron, ECPI University My father would always tell me, “What you get out of anything is how much effort you put into it”. Never would I have imagined that this day would come! The blood, sweat, tears and all of those restless nights have finally paid off as I’m standing tall in my uniform as proud as I ever been in my life. It was the summer of the year 2008, August 17 to be exact; this might have been a normal day for most people, but this was the first day of my new beginning and it was actually the first time I finished something that I started. I proved everybody wrong and I proved myself right. This was my graduation day, the day I transitioned from a civilian to a sailor. The day that I knew deep down inside would always come, but at the time, even with high expectations of myself
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My parents were obviously upset that I didn’t finish high school, but it became quite clear that even though I was an intelligent young man, I did not have the discipline for school. I had to take another course of action, I have always thought about the military since I was a child, I had an uncle who served in the army who I truly looked up to and I figured maybe I go join the military to receive the discipline I needed. I had no intentions of telling my family I was joining the military since I already knew the remarks I would get about starting something that I probably would not finish. I called the Navy recruiting office in Downtown Brooklyn and as soon as the recruiter picked up the phone I told her “There’s no need to sell me, I just wanted to leave as fast as possible!” 6 Months later it was June 17, 2008, and I was in Great Lakes, Illinois at recruit training command. A new recruit who was trying to aspire to transition into something much more such as a disciplined, well mannered, fast thinking, team playing sailor. I learned so much about myself in those 9 weeks than I had my whole
My parents were obviously upset that I didn’t finish high school, but it became quite clear that even though I was an intelligent young man, I did not have the discipline for school. I had to take another course of action, I have always thought about the military since I was a child, I had an uncle who served in the army who I truly looked up to and I figured maybe I go join the military to receive the discipline I needed. I had no intentions of telling my family I was joining the military since I already knew the remarks I would get about starting something that I probably would not finish. I called the Navy recruiting office in Downtown Brooklyn and as soon as the recruiter picked up the phone I told her “There’s no need to sell me, I just wanted to leave as fast as possible!” 6 Months later it was June 17, 2008, and I was in Great Lakes, Illinois at recruit training command. A new recruit who was trying to aspire to transition into something much more such as a disciplined, well mannered, fast thinking, team playing sailor. I learned so much about myself in those 9 weeks than I had my whole