This essay is a transcript of an interview that was conducted during the weekend about an Academic Profile. The interview that I had to organize was with my partner, Ayanna Cade. This interview was of Ayanna telling what was her academic self during grade school to college. Her academic self started as soon as she started her education. She went to Rock Chapel Elementary for Kindergarten through 5th grade, Lithonia Middle for 6th through 7th, and Shiloh High School for 9th through 12th. After Kindergarten through 12th grade, Ayanna went straight to college for the reason of wanting to graduate as fast as possible. 

Ayanna has been to GSU for about a whole year. The reason that she chose GSU was and I quote, “I had a feeling that it was the school for me. I wanted to stay close to home because I didn’t want to be far away from my family and I didn’t want to pay for housing.” She will be getting her associates degree in Nursing at the perimeter college and will soon get an accelerated Bsn at the Atlanta Campus. The biggest influence of her academic self would be her father figure. Ayanna states, “Whenever I’m down or stressed from college, he always reassures me that I am smart and capable of anything.” Her father figure always motivates her and prepares her to be her best academic self. The few things that Ayanna is proud about her academic self is that she is more productive, more organized, and she doesn’t procrastinate anymore.

The frustrating thing about college for Ayanna is Advisement. This is actually a common subject that Ayanna and I share. She claimed that Advisement recommended her to take summer classes and what classes she needed to take for Nursing. Another thing that Ayanna finds frustrating in college is the workload given by professors. She told me that most professors don’t care about your personal life issues and they only care about if you turn in your work. Ayanna’s favorite video from our class time is “How to Studying: Part 5 of 5.” That video taught her a lot of information about studying tips, do’s and don’ts, and different ways to raise your grade. She didn’t have a particular reading that she favored but the video was her only interest. The last thing she told me was about her favorite subject. Her favorite subjects that she loves to learn is American Government and Health Science. Health Science is her favorite since she is a major in Nursing and American Government is for learning about our government and politics. This is the profile of Ayanna Cade, who is a brilliant student of GSU of Clarkston Campus.