Why College Is Important To Me

Education has been made an important factor in our present day and age. Society today has made it into a prerequisite and with some good reason. When people become educated, they become aware of opportunities all around them. College is an opportunity to get informed. When students become informed they have the opportunity to have a better future. They will also be far more prepared because they will have been in the classroom learning skills about what it is they want to do with their life. In the United States of America, attending elementary school, middle school, and high school is practically mandatory for people of that appropriate age. Even though college is now considered for everyone, it still has many benefits. I believe that this scholarship can help me get through college. I graduated high school in three years. Some would say that I am smarter than most my age because I was able to accomplish this. I didn’t graduate high school in three years because it was easy. I graduated early because I worked hard and found the right motivation that I needed to keep going. My greatest supporters were my parents and two close friends. They constantly reminded me of assignments I may have
When they were both younger they had to work to support themselves and in part their family. Then they married young and found it even harder to support themselves financially yet had the support of my dad’s parents. My parents because they got married young were not able to pursue their education until later in life. Now that I am in college, my parents want me to finish college without having the pressure of working and supporting a family. This is something I am grateful for, yet it does not happen without struggle. I would like to hold my own way financially as to lighten their load and show that now I am an adult and can support myself even if it’s just to a small