My Dreams for the future And What I Need to Succeed
My name is Brittanni Baxter, I am currently a student at Bennett college for women; born and raised in Austin Texas. I have traveled over four thousand miles from the state of Austin Texas to Greensboro North Carolina to attend school at a women’s university so that I could better and future my education. Graduating from high school, my grades were not that exciting. I was caught up in a lot parties, not paying attention in school, and at the last minute I realized I was a senior. I was in a world that most teens get stuck in before they decide that life is not a big party and we all have to grow up at some point. I was scared at this point in my life; I had a lot of expectations to live up to: My mother whom held three degrees and was currently a nurse, and my grandmother whom had history as a nurse at Duke Hospital for over thirty years, this was overwhelming.
When I finally decide to get a grip on my life, I decided that I wanted to follow through with my family tradition but be even better than my mother and my grandmother. I decided to travel all the way to the state of North Carolina which has some of the best nursing programs in the world. I thought everything was going to be peaches and cream and that I could just move and start over at a new school; boy was I in for a surprise!! So over time when I started to realize that life wasn’t that easy, I started to come into my own and make something we refer to as “grown-up” decisions. First thing was first, I knew I wasn’t going to focus at a regular co-ed university so I decided to enroll into Bennett College for women because this would be less of a distraction for me. I was so scared after being excepted that I didn’t think that I had enough book smarts to be in a facility that Oprah was famous for and I knew I didn’t have not even half the money to attend but as I got settled in the sky was the limit and I started to believe what my mom always told me; you can do anything you put your mine to and that for me was words of inspiration that I will never forget.
I am living up to life’s challenges everyday and I know that nothing is just going to be handed to me on a silver platter so I am keeping my grades together and applying for any opportunities I can get my hands on because these opportunities are going to help me to become that great nurse that America is in need of.
Brittanni Baxter
12/1/2008
My Dreams for the future And What I Need to Succeed
My name is Brittanni Baxter, I am currently a student at Bennett college for women; born and raised in Austin Texas. I have traveled over four thousand miles from the state of Austin Texas to Greensboro North Carolina to attend school at a women’s university so that I could better and future my education. Graduating from high school, my grades were not that exciting. I was caught up in a lot parties, not paying attention in school, and at the last minute I realized I was a senior. I was in a world that most teens get stuck in before they decide that life is not a big party and we all have to grow up at some point. I was scared at this point in my life; I had a lot of expectations to live up to: My mother whom held three degrees and was currently a nurse, and my grandmother whom had history as a nurse at Duke Hospital for over thirty years, this was overwhelming.
When I finally decide to get a grip on my life, I decided that I wanted to follow through with my family tradition but be even better than my mother and my grandmother. I decided to travel all the way to the state of North Carolina which has some of the best nursing programs in the world. I thought everything was going to be peaches and cream and that I could just move and start over at a new school; boy was I in for a surprise!! So over time when I started to realize that life wasn’t that easy, I started to come into my own and make something we refer to as “grown-up” decisions. First thing was first, I knew I wasn’t going to focus at a regular co-ed university so I decided to enroll into Bennett College for women because this would be less of a distraction for me. I was so scared after being excepted that I didn’t think that I had enough book smarts to be in a facility that Oprah was famous for and I knew I didn’t have not even half the money to attend but as I got settled in the sky was the limit and I started to believe what my mom always told me; you can do anything you put your mine to and that for me was words of inspiration that I will never forget.
I am living up to life’s challenges everyday and I know that nothing is just going to be handed to me on a silver platter so I am keeping my grades together and applying for any opportunities I can get my hands on because these opportunities are going to help me to become that great nurse that America is in need of.
High School: james bowie high school in greensboro, NC
class of 2007
