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Why i went to College
My Long Journey for College
“My reasons for college are probably just like everyone else’s. I went to college because I wanted a better life for myself and better myself. I wanted to find a job that I would not be living paycheck to paycheck like my parents had to do when they first got married. I mean, no one wants to live that way? I know for a fact that I did not want that, and that is why I choose to go to college, even more than is the main reason why college was so important to me. Another reason, both my parents didn’t go to college but have archived success in the new world‘s eyes, I believe children from a young age watch and look up to those in their life. Such as word ethic and things like that, yes, they’re times that even with a terrible person to look up to that person becomes a hard working because they want to be the opposite of that person, sadly that does not happen too often. Plus I get to play one of my favorite sport which is track and field. One of my reasons for wanting to go to college is that I wanted to have a better life. I didn’t want to live my life, paycheck to paycheck, and worrying about whether or not I am going to have enough money to pay to keep a roof over my head; also I want to support my family. My parents never went to college and while they both have decent jobs and worked hard to get at the top of their fields, but it’s still would have been easier for them if they had gone to college but they did not have the opportunity that I did. I am the 4th one in my immediate family to go to college so my other three older sisters went to college; I had someone to follow luckily. While I watched my sisters go to college I got a sense that I should go to college. Plus, at a young age I was not pushed but in a sense yes I was pushed into college, I would say more influenced. One of the reasons I was “pushed”/influenced into college is because my dad wanted all his kids to have a better life than him did. You have to see that my

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