I am a white twenty-year-old female who graduated from
Vassar
High School in June 2005. I grew up in a Christian home and I had a great example in my dad, but sadly, he passed away five years ago from colon cancer that kept spreading. Just before graduation, in January, my mom and I started attending the
Vassar
Nazarene
Church. We had been attending the
Vassar
Baptist
Church since 2002 – right before I started High School at Vassar as a 10th grader. Well, ever since the Vassar Nazarene pastor spoke at the
Vassar
Baptist
Church for the “Good Friday” service in 2004, I wanted to hear that preacher speak again, so, my mom and I went to their church for a Sunday. Ever since then, which was January 2005, my mom and I have been attending the
Vassar
Nazarene
Church. In October of the same year, my mom and I became members there and the church has been keeping us busy ever since.
After graduating from high school, I went to
Delta
College as a full-time student for the Fall 2005 and Winter 2006 semesters. Since the Fall 2006 semester, I have been part-time, but I will be going full-time for the Summer 2007 Session. I am now a third-year undergrad and I am still working toward my Associate’s in Fine Art and Interior Design. It’s the Interior Design degree that I actually want to utilize in the future. I hope to work as an interior designer at Oscar Rau’s in Frankenmuth sometime in the near future. I have to do co-op for college credit sometime in the near future and I hope to do it at Oscar Rau’s.
Delta
College is located in
Bay City, MI and it is open to all students. Its ethnic population is around 55% African American, 36% white, and 9% Asian and Hispanic.
Delta
College does not have dorms for the students to live in, but during the fall semester, at least three thousand students are there. Some are even from out of state! Just walk through the parking lot and you’ll find dozens of Florida license plates with a few Texas and
New York plates mixed in.
I guess I keep getting off the beaten track, eh?
Well, I am single and I am living at home with my widowed mother who sometimes drives me crazy. Neither side of the family talks to me – except through a “once-in-a-blue-moon” card.
I don’t have many friends that are my own age or younger than I – partly because not very many of them attend the church that I go to. I’m not a big “people person,” and I’m not a “social butterfly,” either. I’m one who likes to “stick-to-herself” so-to-speak. I am one who feels that college and church/God are more important than temporary “friends”. When I go to college, I go alone. I get to class, pay attention, and take good notes for myself. If the person who is sitting next to me is going to be gone, then I’ll take extra notes. I don’t seek help from anyone except God, the instructor, a tutor, and a counselor. When I eat lunch, I pick a spot where I’ll be away from “prying eyes”. Meaning, I eat alone at “my own” table. If people want to sit at the other end of the rectangular table that I am sitting at, I will let them, but I won’t talk to them unless they ask me a question. I also don’t associate with the other students unless we are put into groups during class or unless the other students talk to me. When I leave, I do just that – leave. I’m also not good at explaining anything unless it’s math.
Either way, if it wasn’t for Vassar High, I would have never made it into college. The year before I went to Vassar, I was home schooled. Before that, I went to Caro schools from Kindergarten until eighth grade. Had I stayed in Caro, I would have made sure that I had skipped classes, flunked out, and quit when I turned 16. Why? Because I hated it so much! I hated my home life, I hated how the teachers taught and forced you to take in what they were teaching and how they forced you into a “rat race” (trying to get in too much informational material in too short a time before you graduated and attended college). They were very tough and hard on their students. They said: “This is the way how it is gonna be at college, so you might as well get used to it.” (Or they said harsher versions of the same thing.) Well, Delta is NOTHING like what the
Caro
High School teachers said that “college was gonna be (like)” and I am very glad for that. About my home life: my dad was very sick with cancer during 8th grade and my mom and I were always “at odds” with each other. That’s the simplest way I can describe it and the only way I know how.
Well, I guess that’s about it on me. Anything else you’d like to know or need to know?
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