Hi sjones019,
Thank you for the welcome. I am going to start working on the essay today for a little while, work Friday and hopefully complete and submit it over the weekend. I dropped out of HS in 1992 and got my GED in 1993. I have always worked and thankfully I am a quick learner and was fortunate enough to have been employed by 2 major call centers which allowed me to gain a lot of knowledge and experience. I have a 4 year old who is starting Pre-K and I am always teaching him and stressing the importance of learning and education. I do various educational activities with him everyday (making it a game or something fun) and decided that I really need to lead by example and show him even "mommy" is going to school. Also with all my work experience I wanted a degree to go with it so I am doing this for me and my boy, he's my inspiration and motivation. Enough of my rambling about me, it's great that you did well with the career diploma classes as I'm sure you will also do well with the degree. Good luck to you with your studies and thank you for responding to my post.