My Struggles in College Essay

What has been a struggle for me in the past I will learn from to better myself. I have found myself struggling in school and I things have pin pointed what has attributed. I find my self lacking motivation, I have a hard time doing things for my own benefit and I'd rather help others then help myself. Going along with that I have a hard time asking for help. I don't like feeling like I'm an inconvenience to someone, I'd rather spend hours trying to figure out an assignment on my own then spend…

My parents and I plan to pay for my college education with scholarships, financial aid, and with money earned from our jobs. My parents already pay for my older sister, who attends Indiana University Southeast and will have to afford for me as well. I plan to attain a job this summer working at the French Lick Hotel or Paradise Pizza. I am not on 21st Century so I will not get a bountiful amount of money given to me instead, I will have to fill out a multiple scholarships and apply for financial…

The Struggles of a Community College Student: A Thirst for Knowledge and a Degree I grew up impoverished. Financially underprivileged, my parents whose total annual net salary of $3000 struggled to raise me and my brother to afford basic education. They did not miss to provide our needs, in fact they provided more than what was expected. I lived in a developing country where I was forced to wake up 4am to pump up water six blocks from my house. Considering my parent’s income, our daily staple…

parents who don’t understand the language very well, I’ve been on my own to succeed academically. My biggest obstacles that I encountered were the language and cultural barriers. When I first came, I was able to speak English at a basic level. My reading ability was poor and I could hardly understand academic vocabularies. I also experienced a tremendous culture-shock. I had problem socializing and in general being able to assimilate. My first year of being in the U.S. consisted of two…

concepts.” My mind often forms made up scenarios of how much better things would be “if only”. Currently I am in the stages of realizing how unhealthy assessing those daily comparisons can turn out to be. Opportunities at times create challenges and because of those I intend to shine a light on how they can be transformed into something enlightening. My vivid memories of elementary school consist of preparing for TAKS tests (state mandated exams). These flashbacks…

“The college life”. You, me and everybody else wants to live the “college life”. It is where you can explore and find yourself, and to feel free. A place and time to be responsible for yourself and learn how to live. And in order to be responsible for yourself, you have to face obstacles many college students are going through. These challenges are social, study and financial challenges, and these are the main challenges I think many college students struggle with. It is difficult for college…

In the article “Who Gets to Attend College” by Tram Nguyen. Expresses how only currant kids are allowed to go to college or a university because of education and how it affects the community and the next generation. There has been some success in the “A-G System” helped the student succeed in school. We should fix currant things in public schools to help the students succeed. I’ve struggled in school as well and I understand the struggles of school and education but I have overcome some but…

them? Or what frustrated you about reading and writing? My experience with reading and writing start with my teacher from elementary all the way up to my teachers in high School, Ripley, Tennessee school district, and University of Memphis. My teachers during school remind me about the things I must do for class more than my college professors. In Ripley, Tennessee their district held up high standard on students with reading and writing. My favorite teacher from elementary school, Miss. Hayes,…

dread, this is basically the lives of the majority of people in Pakistan. I took this picture when I went to Pakistan and was on my way to my Aunts house. My family, miles away, live in a very large sub-urban home and when viewing these people I felt melancholy due to the struggles they face. Before my parents immigrated to America they also lived difficult lives, especially my father, who was fatherless at a very young age, had to support his family on his own and struggled to continue his…

Being a first generation student and being completely clueless about my future beyond high school was a conflict that I spend most of my teenage years overcoming. Throughout my whole entire life I grew up always being told the same words of “you can be whatever you want”. As a mostly serious young girl, I had already developed the sense to always rely toward being more of a realist than a dreamer. I didn’t understand what people meant when they said I can achieve anything I wanted because I…