Living the Dream While Paying the Cost
The Cost of Chasing Our Dreams
Many come out of high school with goals for the future: Career aspirations, personal dreams, etc., and see the next logical step for those as college. For some people, they are first generation and aspire to go where their family hadn't been before; for others, like yours truly, were guided towards college as the chance for better jobs, more opportunities and the experience of a lifetime. I personally came from a woman who took the first-generation college description to the extreme: My mom earned six degrees, including her PhD., by the age of 45—talk about setting a high standard for the rest of us.