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My Education Journey Essay: My Educational Journey

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My Educational Journey
Today I would consider myself an average student. On occasion I tend to slack off but what student doesn’t. At the end of the day, I always try my hardest to be the best possible student I can be but, life isn’t perfect everyone has setbacks but we have to work through it. Don’t take obstacles as a negative switch them into a positive use them as motivation to keep going, Ralph Marston states “you turn a negative into a positive, you gain twice. You are no longer burdened with the negative situation, and in addition to that you are strengthened by a new positive force”.
I began trying to always to see the good in every possible situation in an early age, growing up neither of my parents attended college, my father was not even fortunate enough to graduate high school.That being so money has always been tight around the house. Being the youngest as well, I watched my siblings struggle throughout high school and never enrolling in college because it's not something that was our main priority with bills due and food needing to be put on the table. Most of my life and till this day I watch my family struggle though this may sound like a broken record education …show more content…

I will always push myself to seek an opening to better myself despite all odds and negativity to be the best me I could ever be even if I mess up along the way I know it’s only more lessons to be learned. You should never stop learning and improve yourself because even if you don’t try just know you will always learn something new every day, education is endless. I will forever remain hopeful and humble because of what I personally have been through and have witnessed growing up. I have now learned I am not average I am me and there is nothing else I would rather

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