The Most Influence In My Education

Growing up I saw my aunts and uncle doing college assignments late at night because they worked during the day. Looking at them working so hard to pursue a college degree showed me how important education is for those who want to have a career and improve their lives. Their example taught me the value of hard work and self-motivation. However, the two people who had the biggest influence in my education were my grandmother, who was a nurse, and my mom, who has been a lawyer working for the government in the department of health for as long as I can remember. Sometimes I would go to their jobs and see my grandmother taking care of her patients or my mom interacting with doctors and nurses all day. After high school, nursing school felt like my natural calling, but I soon learned that passion and talent don't always come from your background and mine was far from the health field. It took me years to accept that what I really wanted to do was to be a writer. Even as a young kid I enjoyed reading and writing. One of my aunts had copies of Shakira's song lyrics and I read them numerous times, then I started to write down the lyrics of other songs I liked and then I began to write my own songs. My mother saw how much I liked reading so she got big fairy tales books for me and kids literary magazines that were available at the time. Later in high

I also learned college experience is much better when you like what you're studying. Unlike before, I now make a point of building relationships with my professors, my excellent GPA is a result of my genuine interest in classes and to my own surprise I absolutely love to go to class, break stories and poems in little pieces and learn their meaning and value in society. I learned to accept who I am and who I want to