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Personal Essay About College Life

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I've had a lot of problems throughout my life, but I try my best to overcome them. Even if they seem impossible. Some of the struggles for me put me back in school, because they were very life shattering, and it was hard to cope with some of them, and I still struggle with coping with them.
As a child, I had a lot of struggles that made it harder to handle things in life well. After my little brother was born, my parents split up. We moved to our grandfathers, and my father stayed with his mom. My mother still had a very close relationship with my dad's mother. I have always been more of a “grandma’s girl” and my grandma was very active in raising me. My mom eventually started dating and got a new boyfriend.They ended up …show more content…

It made me so depressed, and I stopped caring about school completely. So even though my grades not be a big celebration to someone else, they were a big feat for me. Passing was successful. When your that down, getting out of bed is success. It may not look like it to some, because they've been blessed with normal parents, and having stable supportive role models. The only stable role models I’ve had in my life are my Grandma Brenda, and my Grandpa Edwin. But it's hard for them to be there for you when your in a foster home and not allowed any contact outside visits. I still have my Grandpa, but he hasn’t had kids in highschool for probably 15 years or so, so he doesn't understand much of the work.
I'm not really sure what I want to do yet, but I just know I want to go to college. For me it has really just seemed unrealistic. It has since after my mother passed away because my grades started dropping drastically, and since most of my closest family haven't graduated. I just want to do something with my life that makes my grandmother proud of me. So my first goal is to just graduate. I want to go to college now that graduation is becoming more of a reality. I am going to try to go to a college to help make something of my

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