When I was a high school student, I wanted nothing more than to leave my high school experience behind. The day I graduated I thought: “Finally! I finished!" After everything settled down after graduation, I got a job as a shift supervisor at a Boston Market in Littleton, Colorado. After about a year of working there, I realized that I wanted a better life for myself. So what do they do when they want a better life and their parents can't convince them to go to college? They join the army. So, in August of 2006, that's exactly what I did. Almost four years later, I finally understood that to get anywhere in this world these days, you need to have some form of college education. The main reason I go to college is to build a better life. Now, I realize this is a very vague thing to explain, so let's look at it a little deeper. For starters, I want to always be able to support myself without the support of a man, or anyone else. I've done a good job so far and I'd like to keep it that way. One day I would like to get married and have children. I want to be able to give my children a good life growing up like I did. I believe a good way to achieve this is to go to school and get a good job to be able to give them what they need and deserve from life at a young age. I also want to have a purpose for my life. I guess that's my long-term goal, you might say. I want to be able to tell people "this is what I do for a living, this is my purpose and I plan to do this for the rest of my life." Going to college, I want to know more about myself. Everything I do in my life, I push myself to the extreme, and basically to... middle of paper... a Greek Stoic philosopher. This quote means a lot to me as an individual because it basically sums up life in one sentence. You can do anything you want as long as you commit to it. While I attend college for many different reasons, I do so to achieve one long-term goal in my life: to be successful. It's just one piece of the puzzle we call life. There is a lot of work to be done and there will be many failures and successes along the way. In the coming years I will face many challenges. As long as I stick to my plan and work hard to achieve what I want, I will become what I want to be. In closing, Theodore Roosevelt once said, “With self-discipline almost anything is possible.” This is something that should be taken to heart by everyone. I can be anything I want to be. Do everything I want to do, and that's the biggest reward