How I got to Neumont: Senior Year HS
Posted on February 8, 2008 - Filed Under Neumont
When deciding to write this, I thought a long while about to start at senior year of high school, or to start at when Neumont first contacted me after high school graduation. Ultimately, I figured this would let people know a little more about me and I’ll start this first section with the chain of events that led to me coming to Neumont.
The first thing actually happened freshmen year and I’m not going to go in more depth here 
Freshmen year my parents got divorced, it was pretty out of the blue. My family certainly wasn’t perfect, but I never thought that my parents would separate. It was never something that really bothered me then, I believed my parents would end up happier and that was what mattered. It was just a kind of a nagging thorn in my side and a large part of the reason I wanted out of the Chicago area.
Now we’ll fast forward to senior year. I knew I was going to go to college, but where and when was never certain to me. The longer I was in high school the fewer friends, I began to really consider friends of mine. Everyone seemed to want to go a different way, so going to college with a group of friends was out of the question. A good number wanted to join the army, with the goal of being a Marine. Some of my friends went to Southern Illinois, a school known for it’s parties and thats about it. Some of my more “nerdy” friends where going to Illinois, a school I had no interest in. Which left 2 options for me if I wanted to stay with at least some friends.
Option one, go to College of DuPage. A local community college, that my guidance counselorwould always tell me was “one of the best community colleges in the state.” I don’t know what makes a great community college, but it was an option I was considering. I probally would have done it, if it weren’t so close to home. 3 or 4 good friends were planning on getting their gen eds taken care of there, and take some other classes to try to decide what they would major in once going to a 4-year school. This is something I often wish I had done. Senior year I didn’t know what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I liked programming, the problem solving of it was a great challenge, but a fun challenge as well. I like cars and thought of being a mechanic. Though that was more or less a final attempt to the type of kid my dad seemed to want me to be. Not that he pushed me in that direction, but you could tell he hated how much time I spent on the computer. The other option for me was lawyer.
Ever since I was young people would tell me I’d make a great lawyer one day. I had a knack for finding that hole in your arguement and making it look bigger then it really is. However, that same trait became the same thing that made me shy away from it. I knew it wasn’t going to be like TV, I wasn’t going to be doing major cases. It would be injury and insurance cases, and I didn’t want to be that guy. I didn’t want to use the law to take advantage of people. I didn’t want to defend a guilty person either, and especially not prove them innocent. However, as some of you may know I do see myself ending my career in politics, on what level and in what way I couldn’t tell you. Ultimately I feel thats my calling…among the many things I hear.
So enough about that, the other option and another that I’ll often wonder how my life would be different was to go to Northern Illinois University. It’s only real downside was being close. It had a good law program I could have taken and a good friend of mine was going there. To be more accurate, my high school obsession. Which to show I wasn’t some stalker, we were friends, but that was all. She had ask me to come with her, and it was a tempting offer. Even though she was out of my league, and the closest to anything happening between us was me half-asking her to homecoming. I liked being around her, I liked being her friend, and she would get me to be more social. Ultimately I decided against it, I knew I had to move on. /endSobStory
So enough about my miserable romantic life, and back to college. I decided against staying instate, and convinced myself I wanted to go to a university people had heard of, and in a different state. I wanted to have a large number of people, so I had a better chance of finding people I’d get along with. Also, I wanted to have pride in saying where I went to college. So i ended up applying to Michigan and Michigan state. Telling myself, whoever sent me back an acceptance letter first would be who I’d go to and start the following summer, taking a year off from school. I had both applications filled out, I just needed to find someone with a Credit card to use to pay the application fee’s.
At this time, I got Neumont’s mail brochure pamphlet thingy. For whatever reason I didn’t pitch it in the garbage right away. I opened it up and read it. It was in a different state, check. Accelerated program, check. Job Placement, check. Certifications, check. get a good salary, check. Outside of I’d never heard of Neumont, it sounded great. Being as how all I really wanted to do was start working, but didn’t want any job I’d be able to get with just a HS diploma, I gave Neumont my contant information. Before I knew it Karik had me on the phone and sold me on it, 6 months later I was starting Neumont.
This is long enough, so I’ll end this part here. At some point I’ll write about the first 2 or so quarters of Neumont. Where I was deciding if I should stay or go. Then the next couple of quarters, where I felt trapped at Neumont. The following quarters of feeling just burn out. Then one day about Life after Neumont, and if it was worth it.
So there you have it, a little glimpse into my senior year, and a little glimpse at how close you all where from never meeting me.
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SUP TOAST!
Yay sig hits!
how goes the “election”