Ones personal reasons for attending college is molded mainly based on their upbringing. Those who may have grown up in a wealthy environment may choose college because they want to join a sorority or fraternity that their ancestors have become greatly apart of rather than education because a successful future is handed to them. Those who may have grown up in a poor household with a promising mind will use that mind to study their way into providing for their family. As the product of a fifteen-year-old irresponsible couple from Compton California, a father also being in prison since before my birth, and a very privileged lifestyle my reasoning for attending college is different from most. I am not in college because I want the opportunity to make a lot of money, or even because I value education. My reasoning is based on my wants to prove a point, high recognition in the long run, and pressure held over me. Due to my parents being so young and known for their irresponsibility, and also a family background that holds a line of strong black men and women who lived their life working any job that would pay them enough to take care of their families, I made a personal choice to never settle and be like those before me. As expected, from a fifteen-year-old mother, I was sure to amount to nothing but my plans are different for the soul fact that people have expected me to be the same way based on my background. I came to college to prove that I can do it and I am doing it, I refused to immediately get a job after high school that I will for sure work for the rest of my life. I want to be able to held with high esteem from my family, the one that they brag about, the prized member of the family. I dream of these results from both my mother’s family and also my fathers. As a child I never understood why every other kid had two families and I only had one, my mother’s side. Because my father was in prison since before I was born I never got to be introduced to his family or be involved with them. It is a very sad thing for a little girl to think, but my goal has always been to be rich and successful with the belief that that would make them want to be involved with me. Today my goal is still to be successful for them, but instead of trying to buy their love, I want to be successful so I can also gain high esteem from them, as the child of the biggest trouble maker in their family.
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This caused me to have a different mentality and surrounding that no one in my family has had. As a result of this, I began to feel it was necessary to attend college because the friends that I surrounded myself with and also the schools I was placed in made college seem like it was just a way of life and it was just how life was supposed to go. I began to believe that college wasn’t a choice that people made, it was just the next step in education that everyone does as if it was a transfer from middle school to high school. I felt I was expected to attend college because if I did not I wouldn’t be doing what normal young adults do after high
This caused me to have a different mentality and surrounding that no one in my family has had. As a result of this, I began to feel it was necessary to attend college because the friends that I surrounded myself with and also the schools I was placed in made college seem like it was just a way of life and it was just how life was supposed to go. I began to believe that college wasn’t a choice that people made, it was just the next step in education that everyone does as if it was a transfer from middle school to high school. I felt I was expected to attend college because if I did not I wouldn’t be doing what normal young adults do after high