Yesterday, while in english the instructor told everyone in class to share why they were at CCSF and what they were hoping to gain. A common answer among everyone was to gain knowledge and secure a good paying job. After hearing everyones answer it hit me that we all grow up with this conformed expectation that if you're smart, you go to college, and if you go to college, you get a good job, and somehow through hard work you become Bill Gates. In reality, for the most part, it does not always work that way. You can be the most educated person in the world and still live the daily struggles of society.
Later on I thought about my past year and realized that I learned a valuable lesson. A lesson that would bring me to CCSF. I learned that my intelligence and my life were not to be defined by what I was supposed to be doing, or what people expected me to do, but rather my experiences and my choices.
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