My Educational Journey Report

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Educational Journey There have been two major turning points in my mindset toward education. Being moved around from school to school, county to county has taken a huge toll on my experiences. Whether it being a unit that just wouldn’t stick in my head or a teacher who wasn’t suited best for me, these all affect how I have looked at learning. I have gone through many shifts and expansions. It has been quite a journey to get to the places I want to go and see the people I want to see. School has never been particularly difficult for me, I am able to pick up on concepts quite quickly. I rarely struggled or was ever really challenged for that matter. I tended to fly under the radar, wasn’t very social, didn’t do my work because I found it …show more content…
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

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