If You’re Going Through I-Iell, Keep Going There’s a quote from Winston Churchill that I rather like using when I describe my college experience: “If you’re going through Hell, keep going.” So far, it may not be as severe as Hell, but it’s hard. It’s not easy being someone who’s used to being able to spend all the free time I want on anything I want. I’m in the Dual Credit program here at Eastfield Community College, which means I’m a little bit young to be a college student. I’m only 17i Does that mean that I had special education because I was the one with the highest grades in the class? Was I the golden egg among the ordinary ones? No. In fact, I’m probably the most ordinary of my friends. I only saw Dual Credit as another opportunity. A challenge. I wanted to challenge myself, and prove to myself that I had what it takes to make it through college.
The Dual Credit system allows those that are at least 16 years old to start taking college classes to earn high school and college credits for the same courses. I saw this as appealing. After all, when going through Hell, it would be appealing to get through as soon as possible. I challenged myself because that’s what I like. I like challenges. To me it was like going up a level of difficulty in a video game. I’d actually taken similar classes to those I am currently taking while taking advantage of the Homeschool Connection program at Eastfield, which was a program made to allow teachers to teach homeschooled kids, real classes, with real grades. While I am a beginning Dual Credit student, I can only take two classes for my first semester.
Those classes werejust some basics; History and English, I’d taken some English during the Homeschool Connection program, and some History at home. So I was no stranger to either subject, lwas just looking for the next level of difficulty, But I’m not the only one who’s driven me to college, Though I was a homeschooler, I did belong to a group of homeschoolers called E.X.C.E.L., and they would meet every Thursday at a church. They would use the rooms to teach classes, though the classes weren’t entirely academic (One in particular, “Breakfast Club,” met in the morning and consisted of whatever the students decided they wanted to do at the first class), Some friends of mine had it in their minds thatI was the dumb one in the group, but they still thought of me as a friend. I wanted to be able to say to them “If I‘m so dumb, then how did I make it through College?
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At 17, no less!“ So I started Dual Credit. Even when things are bad for me, I think of saying that, and it motivates me. Those friends are also in Dual Credit, or are going to do it. They also inspired me to start the program. I wanted to show them that the “dumb” one could do it, too. Another friend of mine is rather calm and unenthusiastic about everything. I might show him something I thought was the most amazing thing, and he‘d just say “Cool,” or “Ok”. One of my aspirations is to be a great fiction writer. I decided on an English class so I could hone my writing skills and become a great writer. Then maybe I could write something that makes my content, unenthusiastic friend say something more than just “Cool,” or “0k”.
