My Graduation Essay

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The most important day I remember of my life was graduation day. On May 28, 2016 at 11 A.M. I had the moment of my life getting what I earned because it wasn’t handed to me I had to work hard for what I wanted in life and still doing it to this day. I was filled with happiness and tears of joy walking across the centreplex stage getting my diploma from Dr. Curtis Jones the superintendent of Bibb County High Schools. Three reasons why I was so happy to get my diploma because I worked hard all my school years, I didn’t drop out even though it was tough and getting harder, and finally I wanted to make my family and myself proud by graduating on time.

When I was in the 12th grade I knew I had to work harder than all my other years of school, if
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I didn’t do it only for me I did it because some people in my family was saying you wasn’t going to mount to anything, you wasn’t going to graduate, you stupid, you go end up pregnant just like your mom and I showed them better than I could, I prove them wrong eventually when I received the diploma. I always wanted to be a Registered Nurse when I grew up because I loved helping people and taking care of elderly people or kids it really doesn’t matter to me as long I get to pursue my career in what I want to do.

On graduation day after having that feeling of walking across the stage I hung with family at a restaurant called the BRICK in Macon, Ga. Then, later on that day around 6 P.M. I went to Atlanta, Ga to the Cheesecake Factory on Saturday with my Gma (grandmother), Gdad (granddaddy), and my sister because I had a taste for a cheesecake because there is no better place to get cheesecake from other than the original place where I went. Then, on that Sunday I went to the Cascade Skating Rink in Atlanta, Ga because it was still my day and I did what I wanted to do and later on that day we came back to Macon,
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I learned to never give up in life and to strive for what I want because giving up wasn’t the option for me. All my 12th grade year the only thing I brought home to my G-parents was A’s and B’s because I know that’s what they wanted for me and I wanted it for myself so I did just that and left the school with a 3.5 GPA. I had so many people encouraging me to be successful in life and so many people to tell me I won’t be successful but I didn’t let it bother me but at first I did because it was your own family telling you what you can’t do. Now that I have graduated I became a freshman at Gordon State College because that wasn’t going to be no break for me because I wanted to gone head and get it out the way because once you take a break you go be putting it on hold for months, and probably some years so I went on came even though it was hard for leaving my Gma, Gdad and my sister, but this her last year at Albany State College. Sometimes I don’t want to get out the bed but I know I have to do what I have to do because I don’t have my G-parents coming to wake me up in the mornings like they did in high school to get ready for school and taking

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