Why I Chose To Go To College

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One hundred pennies make up a dollar. When I was 13 years of age, my father took me to Walgreens as a spontaneous trip. I was not interested in his reason to go to Walgreens; I was just excited I was going to the store even if it was just to look. As excitement grew in my face looking at the toys, my father told me I could choose one. I knew that any toy I chose to take home with me was going to be difficult for him to pay. I decided to take a pack of 100 stickers at the price of $4.99. As we reach the register, my father tells me “help me count” as he pulls out a hand full of pennies from his pocket. As my father, the sales associate, and myself are counting the pennies, I realized I had to be different. I come from a family of immigrants. Hard working adults surrounded me, but as I grew older, I realized they were hard working adults for a different reason. They didn’t have the privilege of having an education …show more content…

It was a major step in my life because not only was I the first generation to attend a university, but I was moving from cities. I decided to attend the University of Illinois at Springfield because it was a school I could afford. As I spent more time there, I realized that attending a university was not how my high school told me it would be. From my fist day there I had problems ranging from having the wrong roommate to having no files under my name. When the university lost my files, I was forced to leave Springfield and go back home. I lost a semester because I decided to work. I told others I was not going back to school for a semester because I had financial problems, and I was going to work to save money. However, I would tell myself that going to a university was not in my destiny. I had no one to help me when things got hard, and I did what I saw growing up. I took a job that was paying me minimum wage. I got a job working as a sales associate at Bye Bye

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