Personal Narrative: My Life As A Traditional Student

I have never really been a traditional learner. Since around 1st grade I was in accelerated classes with 7th and 8th graders, and I loved the feeling of being in a more mature place of learning. I think being around people much older my whole life, being on my actual academic level seems slow and easy to me. This past year, I thought the solution to this would be to do online school full time, however I've come to miss the feeling of an actual classroom setting because I want to be a teacher in the future. Being in a class room setting and interacting with teachers furthers my career goals because I feel like I'm constantly gaining information on what I do and do not want to do as a teacher. To me, it's always been very clear that I wanted to work with children. Ever since I was old enough to talk and people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up I would say "a mommy" or "like my daycare teachers". Eventually, this childlike

Santa Fe College would be perfect for me because it is the flexibility that I thrive on without the open endedness that virtual school has had. In addition to this, the freedom will give me the opportunity to help my family financially. In traditional high school setting, you have class around 8-4, you come home, and you do 1-2 hours of homework. This leaves little time for a job and isn't even counting extra curricular. Being heavily involved in marching, jazz, and symphonic band, it also takes up a lot of my time, sometimes having practice until 9pm. Having the flexibility of limited classes a day and a open schedule would leave much more time to possibly have a job and take less of a financial burden off my single mom of two, which is something I've wanted to do for a very long