The Long Road to Graduate School :: Graduate Admissions Essays

The Long Road to ammonia alum School   In his poem, The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost wrote, Two roadstead diverge in the woods, and I took the one least traveled by/ And that has made all the difference.  In this poem, the narrator had a choice of both roads.  However, Ive discovered that life is a little more complicated.  Sometimes the grade we embark on is not al elbow rooms the one we choose.  Sometimes we be pushed or pulled in certain directions and we have to react to our environment.   My path to a college education has been filled with bumps, potholes, detours and roadblocks. The signs often read yield and do not enter.  The path has not always been clear, but Ive kept my eyes opened, rivet on the road ahead, and the experience has made all the difference.   During my freshman class in mellowed school, my mother remarried and I had to move from Colorado to Kentucky.  single course of study later, we relocated back to Colorado after they divorced.  During my junior year in high school, my mother remarried again and I had to change schools again, although we remained in Colorado.  Thus, I did not have a sense of continuity during high school and although I recognized that my path would lead me to college, I was not ready to commit myself to school ample time. Instead I went to lam full time as a grocery clerk and worked my way up to assistant manager.  I then moved into customer help work and finally fell into an advertising manager position. I took several(prenominal) night courses during this period until I was ready to commit to school full time.  Although I could have continued with work, I knew that it was not what I valued to do and once I committed myself to attending school and recognise that I wanted to study Sociology, I have proven myself to be an above average student.  This past year, I earned all As in my courses.