But now I had a taste of what the world of learning had to teach me. When I went back to highschool I decided to graduate early, get a head start on college. I aspired to be someone like Mathews and I knew I wanted to pursue philosophy. Then I began looking at my interests in depth and realized that I want to be a real activist for the POC community. I graduated in December of 2015 and here I am. I plan on taking some of this general classes for this semester than transfer to a CSU in the fall where I would like to major in philosophy and …show more content…
My perception of my abilities and all the possibilities out there had grown. I can’t believe I was going to throw away all my potential to go to a trade school, it would have left me at such high-risk without having a back up education. I let my intelligence become static over those first couple of years of high school. I had no ambitions, I didn’t think I was good for much more than this. In the article, “Brainology,” Dweck had stated, “no one succeeds in a big way without enormous amounts of dedication and effort” (5). She is stating that even the greatest on this earth had to work hard. I have big ambitions and now am hungry for education, for the first time in my life it feels satisfying and I know within time I will be able to reach each realistic goal I have