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Name: Angel Morgan
Age: 27
Marital Status: Married
Kids: 5 years, 3 years, and 8 months old
Future Goal: Attend law school
School: Ohio Dominican University
Target: B.A. in Criminal Justice, December 2006
"I realized that while I loved the theater, I did not want to live in the world I was learning from," Angel says. "It was very nomadic. I made the decision to leave the program."
She opted to leave school altogether rather than experiment with a different major. "I didn't want to waste money trying to figure out what I wanted to do," she says.
Instead she decided to wait tables and do some soul searching. Angel always knew that she wanted to return to school, but did not know what to study. She kept her ears open and waited for the right opportunity to come along.
"I tried DeVry University," she remembers. "[I'd] heard it could be lucrative. But it wasn't for me."
Her motivation to attend university never waned; however her practical nature dictated that she conserve two valuable resources—time and money.
She banked on utilizing the economical community college system to get a jump start on her higher education before ultimately enrolling at a 4-year university. She found herself at Columbus State University. There she completed almost all of her general education requirements.
By this time she was a mother and her needs had changed. Her education couldn't take a back seat, but neither could her family.
"I had a daughter and I wanted to be able to say to her that I did something to improve our lives," she says. "I wanted to be able to say that I was satisfied with what I did every day, so that she would do what made her happy, no matter how difficult it seemed."
She researched her options and believed it would all work out.
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