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The Pursuit of a Higher Education
Six years ago I was living the “American Dream”- married to a successful man, living in a beautiful home, driving a luxury car, and was a stay-at-home mom raising three daughters. You can’t prepare for the carnage divorce brings into your lives. Feeling discouraged, unfulfilled and financially stretched, I awoke one morning facing another day of the “dog eat dog” world of sales. I asked myself some difficult questions: If you could do anything, what would it be? I quit my job that day. With fear and trembling, I tiptoed into the community college.  → Read More
Single Mother in College: Willpower and a Lot of Help
Going back to college at age 25 last year wasn’t an easy decision for me. I went to college at age 18, but took a break to work and earn a living. When I was 20, I became pregnant with my boyfriend’s child. As hard as we tried, the relationship didn’t work out, and we parted ways. That breakup was difficult. Except for some phone calls and emails, he had stopped being involved with us by the time my beautiful baby girl was born.  → Read More
Higher Education: Interrupting the Cycle of Poverty
Despite the months and years by which we chart our lives, the quiet reality is that our lives unfold in far-smaller increments—in moments. Along the way, there are moments that seem to stop time, leaving a lasting imprint.  → Read More
Waiting Tables to NASA: How Education Changed My Life
“I’m a 35-year-old mother of three in another marriage, working as a waitress, and have let life around me ‘just happen.’ I exist in a reactionary state of mind.” That was thinking, 13 years ago, before I decided it was time to become proactive, make choices and take control of my life. Today, I have completed three two-year degrees with honors and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a GPA of 4.0 with my Bachelors of Science in Occupational Safety and Health – this coming from someone who swore she would never go to college. I also work for NASA as a Quality Assurance Specialist.  → Read More
Breaking Out of Internships
The real definition of an internship today is as follows: long-term interview. Employers are no longer satisfied with the standard three interview hiring process. They want to see what a perspective employee is really like outside of the thirty minute, wearing your best pant suit, hair perfectly quaffed, give ‘em the big smile interview.  → Read More
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