Personal Narrative: Frankford Middle School

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.” Josh exclaimed. “You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” I smiled as my brother Josh read from my favorite Roald Dahl book “The Twits”. Reading me bedtime stories was not something that my twelve-year-old brother was readily admitting to his friends. He was one year my senior and gauging solely upon our differing popularity at Frankford Middle School you would never know that we were related. My divorced parents worked long hours doing shift work which meant that Josh had assumed the role as my main caretaker. His responsible, simplistic, …show more content…
Art and literature were my favorite subjects as they allowed me limitless opportunities to express myself creatively. As we progressed through high school my parents stressed the importance of education on my brother and I. My mom and dad had both taken jobs shortly after graduating high school and not a day of my childhood had gone by with out each of them expressing their regrets for not seeking a college education. True to my spontaneous nature; however, I had still failed to create any formal college plans by my senior year in high school. I knew that job security didn’t exactly lay in the creative majors so I decided to take some pre-med electives in high school out of sheer curiosity and …show more content…
I had selected my major based solely upon my likeness of economics and Finance and the fact that I was “simply good at it”. My university gave students the opportunity to be paired with a faculty member to serve as a mentor. I quickly enrolled knowing this would be a great opportunity to discuss my interest and hopefully get some much needed guidance. I was surprised when my Personal Finance professor Mr. Pickens pulled me aside after class that next day. He said that came across my inquiry for a mentor as he was the head of the program and would be delighted if were to stop by his office for a chat. We discussed my academic plans in detail and I told him that my ultimate goal was to find a career where I could take my passion for finance and apply it in a way that would directly help others. Over the course of several mentoring meetings he introduced me to the world of Financial Planning and passionately described his experiences working in the industry. I was very excited for the direction that my life was going. The only issue was that UT Dallas only offered a course track for Certified Financial Analysts and lacked three of the courses necessary for me to obtain the CFP Board education requirements. At the time Mr. Pickens was working very closely with UT Dallas and the CFP Board to launch an approved program of study. The first issue that presented itself was the lack of available