My dream by Cassandra

My dream by Cassandra - June 2013 Scholarship Essay

 
In high school I always thought of myself as the rebel girl. I was the girl who would skip class and go to the mall or show up late and bribe my teachers with candy I bought from the gas station. I never thought that I would be sitting in my living room at one thirty in the morning writing an essay to win a scholarship for college. I never thought college would be important to me.
Now going to school and earning a degree is all I find myself doing these days. I am twenty-two and realized that I am only getting older. Even though I am still young I have come to a point where I have realized that if I do not go to school now I will never go. Despite my attitude in high school I have woken up from the fog of ignorance and found that going to school will give me exactly what I want; and option to open doors.
I have decided to take the career path to protect and serve. I would like to join my local police force and the Utah National Guard. Now, neither of these careers requires that I go to school but as my father always told me “going to school doesn’t guarantee any job but it does guarantee that you won’t get certain jobs”. I want to go to school and study criminal justice because receiving forty-eight college credits will allow me to join the National Guard at an E2, which is a higher ranking than joining with just a high school diploma. In the police force it will put me at the top of the list when hiring time turns the corner.
I don’t want it to sound like going to school will only help me in a career path. It will help me on my personal yellow brick road. Out of anything that I want most is to start a family. One day I would like to have little wee-ones running through the sprinklers in the backyard. I know that securing my spot in a career that I love will secure a comfortable future for the “chillins’” I plan to have one day, and they can have the opportunity to be writing a scholarship essay at one-thirty in the morning.
So, going to college means I can trust that my future will consist of more mole hills than mountains. Going to Salt Lake Community College puts me on the fast track to serving my community and my country. Most importantly it gives me faith that the family I hope to have one day will have a brighter future than I created for myself.