My High School Graduation was ten years ago this last May. So, to say it's been a while is an understatement. However, it's not that I don't remember my high school days it's that I don't really want to remember anything academic about it. My school years were terribly frustrating and very stressful mainly because of my parents. My parents did not care about my education and put it all solely in my hands. As a fourteen-year-old kid this sounded great and the school system had already labeled me as non-college bound since my parents both went into trades (firefighter and paramedic) instead of getting a formal four-year degree. As a confused teen I found this freedom in not taking any 'hard' classes was wonderful this however caused a lot of
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This is not just because I am now a wife and mom, I have always had other responsibilities while getting my education in high school it was watching and caring for my siblings and now it is my daughter and my husband. I am talking about my educational responsibilities. Going to college the first time right out of high school at Wabaunsee Community College I had no idea what I was walking into. I didn’t actually know how to learn the material they were teaching. I knew no note taking skills no lecture listing skills and I had no idea how to read a text books. I soon found that although I did well in high school art classes and photography classes were taught quite differently from biology and English in college. I dropped out of school and it took me a couple years of trying and failing before I found that I needed to learn how to learn. I then attended Elgin Community College and was finally able to pass classes and not only pass but get on the honor society while doing a twenty-six-credit hour semester. I had to read and research how to listen to teachers and take notes, how to write essays, how to read my text books and how to take responsibility for the fact that my education was up to me. Owning up to this fact has helped me to learn and grow as a person and pass my
This is not just because I am now a wife and mom, I have always had other responsibilities while getting my education in high school it was watching and caring for my siblings and now it is my daughter and my husband. I am talking about my educational responsibilities. Going to college the first time right out of high school at Wabaunsee Community College I had no idea what I was walking into. I didn’t actually know how to learn the material they were teaching. I knew no note taking skills no lecture listing skills and I had no idea how to read a text books. I soon found that although I did well in high school art classes and photography classes were taught quite differently from biology and English in college. I dropped out of school and it took me a couple years of trying and failing before I found that I needed to learn how to learn. I then attended Elgin Community College and was finally able to pass classes and not only pass but get on the honor society while doing a twenty-six-credit hour semester. I had to read and research how to listen to teachers and take notes, how to write essays, how to read my text books and how to take responsibility for the fact that my education was up to me. Owning up to this fact has helped me to learn and grow as a person and pass my