Graduation Speech: My Career As A Nurse

Hey Everyone! Its the middle of the week! Woohoo! hope you all have been having a great week so far. So today I wanted to get on here and talk about my college life. I talk about it quite a bit especially on twitter. So to start off with I started college a few years back, and had been going as a full time student until this last summer quarter. I got to the point in my classes where I no longer could talk 3 classes at a time. I ended up taking summer quarter, and Fall quarter off from classes. This current winter quarter I am taking one class. I go back next quarter taking a pretty hard class which is Anatomy and Physiology. My degree path is Prenursing at the moment. I am just finishing up classes that I need to be able to apply to a nursing …show more content…
I had goals of being finished with my degree before now. I thought I would be a nurse by now. However even though I think Its taking forever, and I will never get my goal. I have to remember where I started. I started as a girl who had a GED, who never went to a day of 10th grade. I made great strides. I pride myself on being so close to being done with college. Yes it may be taking a lot longer than what I want it to. Yes, I have taken classes that I don 't need. What I always have to remind myself of is that its not a race to get a degree. There are people who are middle age people just now going back and getting their degree, there are people older than me who are still trying to attain their degree. I have got to stop comparing myself to others. Because we all have different situations. All I can do is continue to stay with it, and do my very best to get through school. I know that I will get it done. Yes it will be at a different time than what I want it to be, but the important part is that I will get there. I think about how long I have to go, and I sit and think. Okay I have 1 year until I can apply for a program. then that program is two years, then I need my BA. well those first two steps are not that far away. 3 years in total until I get my dream job is not a bad time frame. I just have to push myself to get great grades so that I am able to get into that program on the first try. If I don 't get into a program on the first try then so be it. I will apply to as many schools, as I can. I will do my BA online after I get done with my first part of the program. It used to stress me out that I was not at my goal yet. But I can 't let that get me down. I have to be proud of myself. I will get there! I will get to my dream! It will take blood, sweat, and tears to get there, but it will be worth it in the