for school

I am
Jade Anderson; I have lived in Titusville my entire life, like my
mother, and her mother. I am twenty-Three: mother of two children, a
home owner and a student, also single. My Daughter is four and a half
and my son two and a half.  I have attended the University of Pittsburgh, at Titusville, and took law and business classes.  Resigned, due to a lot of transportation and child care issues, and am hoping that online school will help with that.

I
was raised by my mother, and knew my father for two years (when I was
10-12 ) before he passed, in 1998. Shortly after that in 1999-2000 I
became very ill and almost lost my leg, and was kept from school, and
placed on homebound, in bed for 6mo to a year.  I
have one sibling between my mother and my father; she is one year
younger, and now lives in NYC. She and my mother were the only people
consistent in my entire life.

My
entire life I have been very into art, and business, and concentrated
mostly on those subjects in high school, completed almost every art
class they offered. In eleventh grade, I moved from my mother's house,
and failed to complete high school due to personal/relationship issues
and medical mayhem as a result of giving birth to my first child
directly before scheduled to graduate. A few months later, single and
with my daughter, Ella , I began purchasing a house (which is now
mine!!!) a year later then  becoming pregnant
with my son, and then after giving birth : I then acquired my general
education diploma, and applied to Pitt. Attended for a short period,
and decided with the other above mentioned issues that it wasn't for me.

Me
and my children are strict vegan, and it is not only a dietary choice
but an entire life style. Along with that I am thankful for my life and
looking forward to any un material progress, through spirituality,
love, and life. I am also excited, to continue my education, so that I
can further myself within those aspects. I am very close with myself!
And I think that's a good start before attempting building
relationships with anyone else. I am in awe of my children every day,
and the light that they bring to my life. They also share already a lot
of the same interest that I did as a child, as far as art and music,
and nature. I have a few good friends, and accept all that are
wholesome into my life, and share all that I have with the. I've meet a
good number of my friends through art, music, piercing, and the fact
that ill feed anyone if they're hungry. I have a tendency to ramble,
and to be a little too philosophical in my attempt to summarize myself.

I
am currently, a fulltime student, a single mother, and a
homeowner/maker. A far as experience goes I have been using Photoshop,
excel, word, and power point since 7^th grade, which was 10
years ago, I haven't made any phenomenal progress, but am very
familiar, with the programs and have always excelled beyond most in my
classes, and in my life, as far as comfortably using and learning on my
own. I have used several version of each program, and stayed pretty
current. I tend to lack the ability to follow instruction, and am
terrible with book work. I have always been better at creating on my
own, and meeting specific criteria, without detailed instruction or
outlines. My expectations for this class are that it will better
prepare me for taking directions, and creating along the guidelines of
other people's preferences.

As
far as plans for my future goes, I'm not sure, one thing I know is that
I love my children and want the best for them, but in this world it's
hard to promise anything to anyone. We as humans are in a troubled
time, and very much so facing an earth crisis, everything that we do is
under speculation whether we know it or not, most progress in the sense
of materialism and mechanistic progress, is very much so corrupt. So I
just take yet another step in or out, I haven't decided yet. I know I
have to do something, and pursuing art has always been a dream, I'm
just not sure if I'm searching in the right context, I believe nature
is the only true art form aside from primal human communication. Over
the next year in this diploma program I suppose I will figure a lot of
things out, aside from doing the work and learning the programs, I will
be exercising the mind to see more clearly. And hopefully obtain
freedom within this blip of time we are given.