During my first few years of college, I did not perform to my full potential. As my student record indicates, I dropped a total of six courses from the second semester of my freshman year to the first semester of my junior year. During this period, I was pursuing a career in music and considered dropping out of school many times. Deep inside of me I had no intentions of graduating but remained in school knowing that not doing so would bring my family immense disappointment. This time in my life is as valuable to me as the period from my second semester of my junior year to my entire senior year where I devoted myself to my studies and achieved a grade point average of 3.878 and managed to remain on the Dean's List for three consecutive semester. The sudden shift in direction came towards the end of the first semester of my junior year, where my perspective on life began to change and I began realized the importance of education in my life. Through education I was able to learn many life lessons I didn't learn from a father figure and ultimately grow as a human being, something I felt, music didn't offer me.
