My Family’s Culture of Graduating College
The relationship between my going to college and actually able to graduate from college reflects on my family 's culture because a lot of people in my family have attempted to go to college but no one has gone far enough to graduate. Graduating college is a huge issue and expectation by my culture at my home because no one in my family has graduated. There is a lot of pressure on me from my family and culture to graduate college. My family doesn’t want me to follow in everyone else’s footsteps from the family tree. The issue of being a girl, only intensifies this pressure to do better because girls are valued to be smarter and to achieve better things in their life than boys. Accepting my family’s …show more content…
Being successful to me means achieving my dreams and having a career that I love and that makes enough money to support myself. Being successful means not settling for a minimum wage job because of the lack of school background. Although the culture of my previous schools are a lot different than the culture in college, I have grown accustomed to college already. I didn’t get any tips on how to do well in college because no one in my family had a good experience in college. Because of this, college has it’s downs that nobody warned me about. I hope my future family can get tips from me on how to graduate college and be successful so they won’t have to go through college feeling uncertain like I feel going into college. But I learned to get help when I need it, I know where my resources are, and I know how to improve my grades if I slack off. By continuing to do well in college, I am keeping the culture of my home alive and not repeating the history of my family. But because of the high expectations of my culture at home, this pushes me to do better so I am thankful for that. So far college has been tough, it’s lots of homework and lots of studying. But I know that this is all benefiting me in the long run in becoming the first person from my family to graduate
The relationship between my going to college and actually able to graduate from college reflects on my family 's culture because a lot of people in my family have attempted to go to college but no one has gone far enough to graduate. Graduating college is a huge issue and expectation by my culture at my home because no one in my family has graduated. There is a lot of pressure on me from my family and culture to graduate college. My family doesn’t want me to follow in everyone else’s footsteps from the family tree. The issue of being a girl, only intensifies this pressure to do better because girls are valued to be smarter and to achieve better things in their life than boys. Accepting my family’s …show more content…
Being successful to me means achieving my dreams and having a career that I love and that makes enough money to support myself. Being successful means not settling for a minimum wage job because of the lack of school background. Although the culture of my previous schools are a lot different than the culture in college, I have grown accustomed to college already. I didn’t get any tips on how to do well in college because no one in my family had a good experience in college. Because of this, college has it’s downs that nobody warned me about. I hope my future family can get tips from me on how to graduate college and be successful so they won’t have to go through college feeling uncertain like I feel going into college. But I learned to get help when I need it, I know where my resources are, and I know how to improve my grades if I slack off. By continuing to do well in college, I am keeping the culture of my home alive and not repeating the history of my family. But because of the high expectations of my culture at home, this pushes me to do better so I am thankful for that. So far college has been tough, it’s lots of homework and lots of studying. But I know that this is all benefiting me in the long run in becoming the first person from my family to graduate