June

I can't believe that it is finally June! It is my birthday month! :) I will be twenty in exactly three weeks. I guess it is not all that exciting... I mean what is there to do at twenty that is different than nineteen?! Yeah, nothing. :) I guess I can say I am not a teenager anymore, ha. I can also look forward to that on my next birthday I should be graduating from Kaplan. Now THAT is exciting! :)

I will be the first in my intermediate family to get a degree in anything. I am pretty proud of that. Even though it is an online course, I still will be proud of myself for putting in my time and effort into all of this. Don't get me wrong, I know that not everyone needs a degree to make good money. My parents both do very well. But for me it's not all about how much money I will be making, because I know I'm going to have to start from the bottom anyway. Medical Transcribers don't exactly make bank right away. ;) But just knowing that I have accomplished all of this will make me happy. I was homeschooled growing up, and I honestly never really had that much schooling because my dad was a single parent and was always working. So, he didn't have that much time to teach me and my brother. But, out of the schooling that I did have I always did well. Basically all I have ever taken was math and english. Never any science, history, language, etc. I got my GED when i was seventeen. Nevertheless, I am doing great here at Kaplan, and just knowing that I can do this inspires me to encourage other people who think they can't succeed in school. I know a lot of people who are in college or high school who struggle a lot, and from my observation, it's what you put into it and how badly you want something that will help you to accomplish what you set out to do.

So, basically all I have to say this week is to not give up on whatever it is your heart and mind are after. :) You might fall down fifty or a hundred times, but you can always get back up again.