Realize Your Own Potential: My Story

Hi, guys!

So, I recently got accepted into Anoka Ramsey Community College to take my PSEO classes and I have not fulfilled the requirement of the Accuplacer Test. I am not very good at math and sentence skills. But, I'm willing to keep trying! Being as this is my first post, I would like to let you know this is my first year in an actual college and taking the high-level courses. I am very nervous (to be expected, haha!) and excited to enter into this new opportunity! To make it clear, I didn't up and decide, "Yep! Post Secondary! Let's go sign up!" No, it took time, determination, and courage to realize the potential I had. I asked my mother one day while a never-ending flow of college recruitment letters kept filling up the mailbox, "So, Mom, am I honestly the first one in this family of fifteen to receive all these letters?" At the time, I wouldn't even dream of entering into Post Secondary. A couple of my friends were freaking about taking the test (Accuplacer) and I had no worries because, guess what? I was not smart enough for that! Mom looked me straight in the eye, and seriously, folks, I swear she was telepathically telling me to get my lazy butt up, risk it, and apply for this schooling my friends were doing. "Lea, you, sweetheart, are the only one in this family to have this happen to you. I'd think of doing something about it, too." Oh. Well, um, I suppose I could. The following week, I entered the office of my grade school counselor. She scared me because she was so serious! Ms. Morningstar printed my transcript. We looked it over and had a discussion. I had to return to her office at the end of second trimester to see if I could enter. I tried so hard in my classes! I needed to get in and earn this. The trimester ended finally and I was anxious to see results. I got my updated transcript and held it up to Ms. Morningstar. She looked at it and told me with reluctance that I would be rejected if I turned in my paperwork. I was destroyed. I felt like all I did was for nothing! I couldn't believe it. I need to get accepted! I quickly walked out of the room into the empty hallway. I tried not to cry, but my chin quivered and I could barely hold back the sobs. Tears streamed down my face. Nobody better see me now, I thought, I'm a total wreck! Where's my ice cream when I need it? I gradually collected myself together in the girls room. Anyway, the deadline wasn't until July 1st. I finished the third trimester with everything I could muster. I now had a G.P.A. of 3.58 and knew I'd get in! Another transcript was printed. I had it signed and I mailed in my information. I hope I get accepted. I need to! I thought to myself. I went on a road trip within three days. I was set for Toronto, Canada! Two days in, I receive a call from ARCC Admissions. "Ma'am? Hi, this is so-and-so. Hey, um, your State Form isn't signed and its invalid without an administrator or counselor's signature." I was shocked. Hesitating, I spoke, "You sure? I'm out of town right now have no idea-- what should I do to make it possible to have it signed?" Man! We got it faxed, but the counselors were gone. So, jumping the lines between the Admissions Office and the high school, I got it signed. Three days after, I see an email. I tap on it. I totally got accepted! BOOM! In your face rejection! I going to beat this with everything I've got. Every. Ounce of my everything. So, here I am! This is the ultimate dream: take everything I receive from this tough education and devour it. I gotta make this happen. I didn't know I had this amazing potential to achieve what I thought was out of bounds and completely unimaginable.