Blog 7B

Never Give up, Try Harder

“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”

Orison - Swett Marden

Coming into college I thought it was going to be a breeze, and not so much of a challenge. But I was wrong. I have had some struggles but I have been able to build my way back up. At times I felt as if I was knocked down by the work load. From the stories I heard from my friends about people dropping out and not making it threw their first year. I always said to myself, “It can’t be that hard” this was my saying this in high school where the work load was nowhere near what I had back then. In high school I found myself doing homework for about an hour or to a night and I thought that was hard.

The truth is that in high school depending on where some of us went, we had it made for ourselves. Nothing was truly hard back then, but now that we are for the most part alone doing our work for ourselves. But now that I am in college I can say that I find myself doing homework for hours at night on one class. The class that I can say I struggle in the most as of now is math, the work isn't that hard, it’s just the way I am use to learning. All my homework is online and we don't go over it at all, I thought this was how every class was but my friends that are in the same level math told me they have book work. So I learned it depends on the professor. No matter how hard the struggle will get for me and as well as my peers I can say we all ill manage to build are way up.

This book I read in high school called “Broken China” by Lori Aurelia Williams inspired me to never give up no matter how hard it gets. The book was about a teen mother named China Cameron that tried her best to be a good mother to her two year old daughter Amina even when she didn’t want her child at first. At the age of two Chinas daughter had passed away while she was in school due to an illness. Shortly after China was forced to drop out of school to get money to have a funeral for her child so she had to find a job, but she was only 14 years old no place would hire here besides a strip club. This book showed me that things in life can change and be taken away from you in a blink of any eye but you can never give up on your dreams. No matter how hard it may get through the struggle you have to make the right choice for you.