My Struggles in College Essay

While parent engagement, extracurricular activities and teacher quality may cause a student to succeed or struggle in college, the outcomes of pursing a college degree could include better paying job but also student debt. One cause of students academic success in college is parental engagement. Many readily agree that engagement from your parents and family can guarantee a student to go above and beyond in higher education by the parent engagement in order to succeed academically. Robert D.…

obstacles thrown at me. In my first year of school I had to learn a completely foreign language by myself, without the aid of my spanish-speaking parents. From a young age I have been self motivated to push myself and get out of my comfort zone. If I attend and graduate college, It would make me the first in my family to get a college degree. I would not only be making my parents proud but myself as well. I was born in Mexico and was brought over to the US at 8 months old. Both my parents came…

a background of the college. The founder- Rev. Fee began Berea College on the belief of providing an education for all races and sexes to rise above the evils of the time. This belief carried onto create a strong community, unique mission, and a Christian based outlook. To follow this speech, the invocation began with speaker Osvaldo Flores, a current student of Berea’s class of 2018. Flores is a first generation undocumented Mexican student and related his struggles to creating a…

College education is extremely crucial to me. I received a $500 scholarship from USD for each semester of my sophomore year of college. I am paying the rest of my educational expenses through student loans and money that I have earned from my two part time jobs. I was raised by a single mother for countless years until my mother married my stepfather. My mother was a teen mom and had an abundance of financial struggles as I was growing up. Due to this set back of financial struggles, she was…

the urge to quit and finally graduating, while the curriculum helped me, there was still many other burdens in my life apart from education. In community college, when I first began, the “Student fear factor” definitely applied to me because I did not know what college was even about. I was so used to just being in high school where most people did not care if you made it to college, and my family was so busy with work and trying to keep up with rent and bills, that they had no time…

desire for scholarship, and honorable character. Furthermore, my mother has influenced how I live my life through her selfless acts of service for others. My mother, Karen Darwin, raised four children to become men today. In addition, my mother decided to return to college to earn her bachelor’s degree to become a registered nurse. As one can imagine, raising and providing for a family everyday can be strenuous alone. However, college also demands a great deal of time and effort. She resulted…

encounter as I work toward my goal of earning my degree in nursing. My son has Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome which results in him being sick and having seizures frequently. As soon as my son gets sick he has seizures. Therefore, unless someone is CPR certified, I don’t allow anyone to watch him. Child care for my son will be one of the biggest complications I will face. With that being said, I will miss many classes and it will also be a set-back. Due to child care and situations with my son’s father…

classes to get into college.…

There are so many struggles I have experienced in my life. Some of them were easy to go through, others were challenging and hard, but still got through it. Some of the hardest struggles that I overcame with my family was literacy and poverty. Literacy is the ability to read or write. I was illiterate my childhood years until my country started developing to build schools, hospitals and etc. That’s when I started to read and to write the alphabets. Education has changed my life. It has given me…

Towards the end of my freshman year of high school my parents had separated for the last time. In addition, my dad had to move to Utah to get his life back together. This had broken my heart. It was hard for me focus in school knowing what was going on in my personal life. That summer was the hardest one I have ever had since I would not see my dad everyday like I was used to. It was also difficult to see my mom struggle with finances, and then have to end up moving in with my grandma and…