I often try to talk to my mother about my college plans. Most of the time she doesn’t even pay attention to what I am saying except for this one day I was talking to her and she was really listening. My mom tells me that I shouldn’t go to college because I don’t need a college education to live a good life. She says that even if I do go she expects me to be right back at home the next semester. She tells me that I can just go to trade school and be a dental assistant, CNA, or maybe one-day work in an office. I reply back to her “Mom, I am determined to go to college no matter what it takes. Why would I be the dental assistant when I can be the dentist? Why be a CNA when I can be the doctor, and why be a company worker when I can be the C.E.O
