This past week I was blessed with the opportunity to hear from a group of people; their personal stories on how they got to where they are in their educational career. More specifically, I heard about their challenges, victories, and if possible what they would change in their journey to an undergraduate degree. From the discussion we had one thing that became increasingly clear is that no two college journey's are the same, we all took different paths to get to where we are, and no path is lesser or greater.
Another thing that I was reminded of is that many students in the United States are not aware or unable to create the path that leads to college. In elementary schools in certain places, the idea of growing up to become whatever a child wants to be whether that be a teacher, artist, lawyer, or doctor is instilled at a young age. Students are taught that despite their circumstance they can overcome and become who they want to be, college is something attainable. Other schools however, students are not given this same hope and support, they in turn begin to see there situation over the opportunity of a college degree. This social change project provides us with the opportunity to show all students that upon graduation there are many paths a student could take work, military, etc, but the college path that is also attainable.
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