Not in my Mother's Basement by Sarah

Not in my Mother's Basement by Sarah - June 2013 Scholarship Essay

All my life I've known that I am supposed to go to college. After elementary schools there is highschool, and after highschool there is college. It wasn't a question or and up-to-you arrangement; it was just another fact of life. Now that says why I am going to college, it doesn't say why I want to go to college. There are two reasons that I want to go to college and they are my present and future. I go to Flour Bluff Highschool and have gone there since 9th grade. I love it there. However, I am not apart of the usual high school. I am apart of the University Preparatory Program. Everyone in the program calls it U.P. In this program during my sophmore, junior, and senior year of highschool, I take classes taught by college professors over at the college campus. I am not segregated from the college students; my classmates and I are not taken to a separatate area. We take the classes together, learn together, and make some friends. And I have to say, I like college much more than highschool. If a love for learning was ever to appear, it would appear at a college campus. The next reason, I want to attend college is because I know what I want to do as a career. What I am going to talk about right now, I how I know what I want to do. I have not always know what I wanted to do. Some kids know from the age of 3 that they want to be a pilot. I was not that child. I wanted to be a pilot, a janitor, a radio DJ, and a plastic surgeon. I wanted to build things, read books, work at a library, and save animals.