For those of you who don’t know I graduated high school in 2010 and was attending university in the Fall of 2010. I moved out and found an apartment with my friends. For the whole semester I wasn’t really too happy with everything and would hate going to classes, I was very anti-social, and would skip a majority of my classes. Around November or December my mom had come to me asking that I move back in because she needed help getting my niece back from child services. Already hating university and almost depressed with my life, I decided to take her up on that offer. I stopped attending all my classes and only showed up for my final exams. I passed 2 exams and failed 2. 

Being a freshman and, quite honestly, a little lazy I never officially withdrew from my Spring semester. I really didn’t know how to just stop going to school, so I simply didn’t. I had already taken my refund check and just didn’t attend classes. Which was probably the biggest mistake of my life. 

For about a year and a half, I have not been in school at all. I worked most of time to pay rent to my mom and none of it went to school. Since I didn’t attend school in the Spring, I was forced to pay back the refund check I had taken. My loans started coming in because I hadn’t been in school for awhile and I began to literally panic. I knew I wanted to go back to school, but I didn’t know where to begin. But with the help of my boyfriend, who was beyond the best thing to happen to my life, I got on the right track to go back to school. 

So here I am starting school in the Fall semester of 2012. I literally have a GPA of a 0.75 (with all the Fs from the 6 classes I failed) and am probably going to be on probation for 2 years. But with all the hardships I have been through, I don’t have an excuse not to succeed.

I would like to give a huge shoutout to my boyfriend (@ereaux) for pushing me to go back to school in the first place. You have shown me that I am so much more capable to achieve my goals then I give myself credit for. I am grateful for all the life lessons that you have taught me in order to become a smarter individual in society. There were so many times I would take your tips when dealing with the financial aid office, my advisors, and even for emailing professors. KEEP YOUR RECEIPTS! RECORD CONVERSATIONS! 

Thanks to the friends that I have made through the semesters, especially Azuree, Juan and Sheiva. Without these 3 friends, I probably would have never known when exams were or even bothered to study for them. 

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