Graduation Speech High School - 1867 Words

College hasn’t really been much of a choice for me—same way for walking the stage at graduation in high school. Yeah the â€Å"option† to opt out has â€Å"always† been there, but God forbid I get to make my own choices as an adult by my mother (but that’s something else entirely). My relatives’ continuous badgering, threats, and my patience running out after fifteen years of their actions â€Å"convinced† me to start to college anyways. I mustn’t leave out the fact that I also convinced myself that if I started college early, I would potentially graduate around the same time as one of my favorite cousins and one of my friends. I started taking dual credit courses in high school to shut my mother up about advanced schooling, ended up liking the teachers†¦show more content†¦In middle school, my grandfather took me to a bank to create a savings account since I had filled up almost three piggy banks with coins and dollar bills—during which I found out a twenty dollar bill I had snagged had been stolen from me by someone along with a bunch of other smaller bills and replaced them with about five dollars in pennies. This only made me more determined to find improved places to store money than my child self knew about. Jumping ahead to high school, I planned to hold off on a four-year college until about a year after graduating so I could have some money saved up for books, tuition, and supplies for the classes. This failed the moment I started dual credit courses in high school. Although they were half the price they would have been after graduating, it was still costly for us. My mother never improved on watching her spending habits and refuses, to this day, to get a stable job so she can take care of herself and her bills to a greater degree. Due to her carelessness, I began looking for jobs around seventh grade to start saving money—albeit for a different reason—but, since I wasn’t sixteen-years-old, so no one could hire me even if they wanted to. I mentioned this to show I want to be able to work and successfully