When I was a high school student, I wanted nothing more than to put my school experience behind me. The day I graduated, I said to myself: “finally!” I finished ! Once everything settled down after graduation, I got a job as a team leader at a Boston market in Littleton, Colorado. After about a year of working there, I realized I wanted a better life for myself. So what to do when they want a better life and their parents can't convince them to go to college? They join the army. So, in August 2006, that's exactly what I did. About four years later, I finally realized that to get anywhere in this world today, you have to have some form of college education. The main reason I go to college is to create a better life for myself. Now I realize that this is a very vague thing to explain, so let's look at this in a little more detail. For starters, I want to still be able to support myself without the support of a man, or anyone else for that matter. I've done a good job so far and I'd like to keep it that way. One day I would like to get married and have children. I want to be able to give my children a good life growing up like mine. I believe a good way to do this is to go to school and get a good job so you can give them what they need and deserve in life from a young age. I also want to have a purpose in my life. I guess that's my long term goal, you could say. I want to be able to tell people “this is what I do for a living, this is my purpose and I plan to do this for the rest of my life”. By going to college, I want to learn more about myself. Everything I do in my life, I push myself to the extreme, and basically in the middle of a paper ......s, a stoic Greek philosopher. This quote means a lot to me as an individual because it sums up life in one sentence. You can do anything you want as long as you set your mind to it. Although I attend college for many different reasons, I do so to achieve one long-term goal in my life: to be successful. It's just one piece of the puzzle we call life. There is a lot of work to be done, and there will be many failures and successes along the way. I will face many challenges over the next few years. As long as I stick to my plan and work hard to get what I want, I will become what I want to be. To conclude, Theodore Roosevelt once said, “With self-discipline, almost anything is possible.” This is something that should be taken to heart by everyone. I can be anything I want to be. Do everything I want to do, and that's the highest price