One of the struggles I have always faced in life was being able to succeed in college.

For the longest time I convinced myself that college was not for me. I was so upset with my lack of success in college that I looked for every possible way to not have to go to college. Eventually after talking with some very insightful people I realized that I could use the college degree to be able to stregthen my success in life and career. So after a full year of college I can now say I am being very successful at college. I was on the Deans list my first semester back and I am on pace to make the Presidents list this semster.

I have been successful this time around in college becasue of some different things in my life. I have more stablility in my life this time. I dont have to worry about my living situation. I also have a strong support team behind me. I have people who refuse to let me give up even in the tough times. The most important difference though is my maturity level. I have a different perspective on life and success. I am determined to not let anything stand in my way and refuse to give up on myself.

Sometimes in life things dont play out as we plan them but the one things we have to do is never give up. We may have to reevaluate our plans and change the paths we take but we have to keep our end goal in mind. We have to keep hold onto our goals and dreams and never let anything get in the way of them. My success has also been noticed by my fellow peers at college. Recently I had one of my classmates write an amazing article about me for the college paper.

I was so honored to have her write a article about me and for it to be placed in the college paper. So college to me has as different view of when I stsrted right out of high school. It may have taken me a little longer to get this new found success but its not how we do it but rather if we do it that matters.