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My name is Mayra Pineda and I'm studying business administration at
at Ashford. Also, I'm minoring in human resource management.
I needed to progress. I needed to challenge myself.
Every single decision out there for
the same
pay,
the same experience that I had,
required a bachelor's degree.
It wasn't an option; it was a requirement. So I realized that
and I decided, "I need to go back."
It's pretty tough to balance my work week, actually.
I figured that the best way for me to be able to stick to a college environment
was going to be if I did it online.
I tried going to a community college before I enrolled at Ashford.
Currently my husband has been on an eight month assignment.
So it's actually going to be almost a full year of
no husband, no dad around that's going to be able to help me take
some of the load that I have.
But even though
that's happening
in my family life,
my schoolwork has actually
been great.
Ashford gives me the flexibility to work. Be a mom. Be a wife. Be a friend.
Have a social life.
Ashford gives me flexibility to do attend college.
It makes me feel proud
because the kids see
first hand. It's a first hand experience that college is
extremely important.
They also see that I am trying to better myself.
I want them to know that.
Not a second goes by that they don't know that.
I actually graduated in May 2012.
In our family,
2012 is going to be a big graduation
time because
my daughter is graduating from eighth grade,
I am graduating from college, and my little sister,
she's twenty two, she's is graduating from
college also.
It is going to be a celebration for us.