Going to College

As I went through high school I realized that to be successful in life I would need more than just a high school diploma I would need a degree from college. Getting into college was not the hard part trying to find a college where I could afford was the difficult part. The process to attend college was both pain and pleasuring. It was painful because I was overwhelmed with school and work and filling out scholarships. However I also found resources that were going to help me through this process.

I come from a low income family and college was just a dream because my family could not afford college. I was able to apply and get in but the hard part was trying to find a way to pay for it all. When I first started to apply one thing all schools ask for is an application fee. Luckily if you talk to the counselors they would give you a fee waiver this was a life saver because each application cost about thirty to fifty dollars. I also knew that eventually I would have to pay a deposit fee so I started to work thirty to forty hours a week at my job so I can save money. I did know very much about college because I was going to be the first one in my family to go to college. Everything seemed so overwhelming because I had a full time job and went to school full time.

I became so overwhelmed that I finally asked for help. My college consular was a life saver; she helped me through the whole process. I learned that I could get assistance simply by filling out scholarships, and when it was time the FAFSA. I came across a great scholarship it is a full time scholarship to any school of my choice. The application was brutal I had to write four essays and go to three interviews. Five hundred students would apply and only two hundred would be accepted. My consular helped me and luckily I got the scholarship. I was relived because my dream finally became reality I was going to attend college.

The process to attend college was both pain and pleasuring. It was painful because I was overwhelmed with school and work and filling out scholarships. It was pleasurable because all of my hard work paid off and now I am in college.