Today, divorce is a common occurrence in families with a forty to fifty percent chance of spouses getting divorced. DUI arrests in Texas alone were almost at seventy thousand this past year. Naturally, there is going to be some overlapping and I was one of the lucky people to experience this first hand. Your environment when growing up has a huge impact on what you do, especially in school. These extenuating circumstances took me through three phases; depression, the decisive moment, and determination which made me where I am today.
Every since I can remember, my parents never got along and would constantly fight. This lead to my dad going out and drinking a lot. My dad eventually got a DUI which was the breaking point in my parents marriage. I was in seventh grade. All of the hardships that were implicated put me in a terrible mood and in turn my school work was affected. I didn’t want to do anything other than what made me oblivious to what was happening, which happened to be playing video games. It was a low in my life. …show more content…
It was also around this time that I had taken an interest in programming. At this point, my grades weren’t the greatest, but I still managed to do alright for AP classes. I did manage to do well in Computer Science self teaching myself outside the classroom. Unfortunately, it was too late for me to turn my grades around and still do well in every aspect of my life at that point because I was also playing a sport. I knew I wanted to achieve something greater through technology though. I also realized too late that I had a sense of accomplishment from educating myself after starting to focus on school work in high
Every since I can remember, my parents never got along and would constantly fight. This lead to my dad going out and drinking a lot. My dad eventually got a DUI which was the breaking point in my parents marriage. I was in seventh grade. All of the hardships that were implicated put me in a terrible mood and in turn my school work was affected. I didn’t want to do anything other than what made me oblivious to what was happening, which happened to be playing video games. It was a low in my life. …show more content…
It was also around this time that I had taken an interest in programming. At this point, my grades weren’t the greatest, but I still managed to do alright for AP classes. I did manage to do well in Computer Science self teaching myself outside the classroom. Unfortunately, it was too late for me to turn my grades around and still do well in every aspect of my life at that point because I was also playing a sport. I knew I wanted to achieve something greater through technology though. I also realized too late that I had a sense of accomplishment from educating myself after starting to focus on school work in high