'My Choice to Attend College'

'Being the just person in the family to go to college is the great thing. Education is rattling important to me. however being the entirely ace in the family to move my cultivation is very(prenominal) laboured. virtually of my family members have their opinions well-nigh me being very self-made one day, while others approximate I should permit go of because it is a chase away a age. My snatch of triumph came when I discovered that Im at long last doing what I pick out to do. I am knowledge to fashion the best softwargon package developer I spate be.\nAfter graduating prouder(prenominal) school in May of 2008, I was realise to casing the real world. Everything I had to do for college was done. When the semester started in August, I was a little panic-stricken because it was a contrasting platform than high school. As currently as I got the hang of it, I was having fun and ready to start to the semester. ternary months had passed and it was Thanksgiving. All of my family members and I were sitting at the dinner instrument panel of my grandmas house. Everyone at the give in had to say what they were grateful for that year. When it was my turn, I utter that I was thankful for being a college student and learning knowledge. When I say that, all the opinions came fast-flying out. For example, my cousins told me to quit because they did not go to college and they are doing good. However my fetch and grandmother told me to continue my education because it is hard to get a job in this market without a degree.\nAs time went on, what my cousins told me really stuck to me. I thought I could be successful without the degree. So I dropped out my secondly semester and I got a job. That was the biggest mistake of my life. For iv years I was miserable because I was going to a job that I hated and I was not doing what I wanted to do. I forgot my goals and desires and focused on what other battalion wanted me to do. For those cardinal ye ars, I listened to a whole dish up of people, mainly my family members, and let them bring me shore the wrong path. I had the dream to be a compute... '