Autobiography Of Anderson Reyes Essay
Autobiography of Anderson Reyes
Being born and raised in the Dominican Republic, the words future and happy career dreams are words of fairy tales. Yes we all go to school but barely anyone makes out of grammar school and even less make it past high school. In my household it was my parents, two uncles, grandmother, my two younger brothers, and my niece. We were a big family living in a house with 3 bedrooms so we used bunkbeds often. My dad, grandma, and uncles never got past high school. I became the first one to attend college in the United States and now my mom and brothers are attending college. The school system in D.R. is not the best. Usually people end up dropping out and working because of the high percentage of poverty in the country. …show more content…
I joined a fraternity the following year. After joining the fraternity I put even less thought into my future and I just wanted ti enjoy my college years and worry about it later on. Around the same time I was going through a rebellious teen phase at home with my mom and that proved too stressful all together. I slacked even more and, failed a class one semester. I would go to class and did just enough to get by without caring for the consequences. Well it all hit me at once my 4th year. I was already behind on credits and had to seriously think about my future. I looked at the summary of the past few years and I became extremely disappointed in myself for wasting so much time and not taking my education serious. I told myself that this is not how I wanted to live my life anymore. I took a step back during the summer vacation to reevaluate my actions and my life and try to change my priorities to get back on track. After doing a lot of thinking I changed a lot. I decided that I wanted to go back to school and get a restart on my grades and my college education but in a different major. As a consequence I would be in school for much longer but if in the end I would study what makes me happy and I would be more content
Being born and raised in the Dominican Republic, the words future and happy career dreams are words of fairy tales. Yes we all go to school but barely anyone makes out of grammar school and even less make it past high school. In my household it was my parents, two uncles, grandmother, my two younger brothers, and my niece. We were a big family living in a house with 3 bedrooms so we used bunkbeds often. My dad, grandma, and uncles never got past high school. I became the first one to attend college in the United States and now my mom and brothers are attending college. The school system in D.R. is not the best. Usually people end up dropping out and working because of the high percentage of poverty in the country. …show more content…
I joined a fraternity the following year. After joining the fraternity I put even less thought into my future and I just wanted ti enjoy my college years and worry about it later on. Around the same time I was going through a rebellious teen phase at home with my mom and that proved too stressful all together. I slacked even more and, failed a class one semester. I would go to class and did just enough to get by without caring for the consequences. Well it all hit me at once my 4th year. I was already behind on credits and had to seriously think about my future. I looked at the summary of the past few years and I became extremely disappointed in myself for wasting so much time and not taking my education serious. I told myself that this is not how I wanted to live my life anymore. I took a step back during the summer vacation to reevaluate my actions and my life and try to change my priorities to get back on track. After doing a lot of thinking I changed a lot. I decided that I wanted to go back to school and get a restart on my grades and my college education but in a different major. As a consequence I would be in school for much longer but if in the end I would study what makes me happy and I would be more content