Personal Essay: My Experience With Attending College

I was never interested in going to college but my parents convince me to attend in hopes of achieving a higher education and succeed in life. Ultimately, they told me of different accounts on how college helped my family and relatives get good jobs. For instance, through college, my Aunt Nonie was able become a pathologist, my mom and sister became a nurse and my dad as an electrical engineer. With this in mind, I was motivated to attend college and succeed. But going to college has its challenges. In my experience, there are three issues I encountered upon starting and actively in college which I was able to resolve. First, difficulties in choosing a degree which I was able to fix by doing nursing. Second, issues with finding the right college which I was able to resolve by going to College of Southern Nevada. Finally, my difficulties in passing my entrance exam to get in the program.

My first issue in starting college is finding the right degree. I did not know what degree to go after but I already see myself working either in the medical …show more content…
At the moment, I am currently in my sophomore year in college credit wise. I should have been done in my fourth year but I am in my sixth year in college. The holdup was due to my repetitive failure in the nursing program entrance exams. In addition, the program is competitive which adds the probability of me not getting into the program. Thus, it made me realize that I need to take a different route in order to achieve my degree. Hence, I decided to look into other schools that offer the nursing degree and list what are the general classes needed for their programs. So, I started taking classes, such as English 102, Anthropology 101 and Psychology 210, to increase my option to get in the nursing program regardless what school it is. As a result, if I just keep this up; I should be able to finish my