GOAL 5: GET A COLLEGE DIPLOMA

Welcome to Smokkee's WORLD 101. I am Smokkee Singleton if you haven't already guessed that by now. The purpose of this blog is to face my 101 goals head on and complete them. It's that simple. Eventually, I may try to organize them in some kind of order but I don't see it right now. I'm more concerned with trying to accomplish them anyway. Let's keep going down the list!********************************************
************GOAL 5: GET A COLLEGE DIPLOMA.*****************************************
Well WORLD! You already know that due to certain problems, I never graduated from my high school, Hyde Park Career Academy here in Chicago, but I had my GED a year before I was supposed to graduate. By the time I would have gotten my HS diploma, I was already enrolled in Devry Institute of Technology in 1993 for an Associate in Applied Science but tuition was too much for me or my moms to handle at the time so I couldn't afford to finish. I then enrolled in Computer Learning Center in 1995 and would have graduated from there had my Devry student loan not went into default. That loan finally got paid back by 2000 but I was weary of any school until 2005 when I enrolled in the UoP (University of Phoenix). I would have graduated except I failed a class (the reason why I fail will probably be a post on the Smokkee's WORLD PRIME blog in the near future; it's a doozy!) and if you fail a class you have to take that class over again but the student loan does not cover make up classes; makeup classes MUST be paid outta pocket and @ $1200.00 + lab fees a class, it wasn't feasible at the time. I need to graduated from college, not because I can get further in life, not because I want to be better than anybody, but because I want my daughters to know that you never give up learning, never give up trying to better yourself, never stop pushing. I haven't, and I hope my attitude and my willingness to put myself right back through school rubs off on them. At least that's what I want to happen WORLD. Hopefully, the point hits home.