Dear Reader,
Do you want to know how to excel in community college as a first-generation student? If yes, keep reading.
By first-generation student, I mean you’re the first in your family to attend college. You’ll face unique obstacles to academic achievement and to full integration into your campus community. Yet you'll be under tremendous pressure to succeed, because you’re a pioneer in your family when it comes to higher education.
First, define “success” for yourself based on your desires, goals, and dreams. Then build the necessary skills for your desired achievements while surrounding yourself with a support system.
For me, success meant lifting myself and my family out of poverty. I had to secure a decent-paying job in the near future, a job that would reflect whatever level of education I acquired.
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I carried that pressure to succeed from my community college years all the way to earning my master’ s degree. And at every level of my education, both the pressure to succeed and the stakes of success or failure were higher and more intense.
Here I share 7 Tips for excelling as a first-generation student in community college.
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Do you want to know more about how I went from a high-school dropout to a master’s degree? Grab a copy of my memoir, Destined: A Story of Resilience and Beating the Odds, set for release in February 2025. I would appreciate your review of it when it appears on Amazon!
Book Talk Highlight
It was a pleasure to virtually take part in my first memoir discussion on August 29, 2024 with some Community College of Philadelphia’s faculty members in the English department. Topics discussed included intellectual awakening, work-life balance, and pursuing big goals. One participant commented, “Wow, I am so grateful for this talk and text: so good, so rich, so necessary, so rewarding.” Special thanks to Professor Ravyn Davis for organizing and facilitating this meaningful conversation.
Thank you for reading. Wishing you all the best.
Keep going!
Aminata Sy
Author of Destined: A Story of Resilience and Beating the Odds
