GED Stories

Name: Lavette
Age: 16
City and State: Baltimore, MD
What motivated you to get your GED? Well, because I know I’m a very smart young lady, and I love school and want to learn.
What problems have you faced? I get scared in school because the other kids used to tease me about me studying, and I left.
What do [...]

Name: Martin
Age: 57
City and State: Kissimmee, Florida
What motivated you to get your GED? I intend to obtain the Master of Wine. To get that I have to get a Hospitality Degree first. I left school at 15 unable to read or write correctly and have taught myself to a decent level. This will be the [...]

Name: Felicia
Age: 38
City and State: Pueblo, Colorado
What motivated you to get your GED? I finally got my kids in college and now I see that you really can get far in life with a higher education. I’m a CNA now, but now I want to be an RN. The only way for that [...]

Name: Emma
Age: 63
City and State: Detroit, MI
What motivated you to get your GED? I’m tired of sitting around doing nothing.
How have your friends and family helped you? By telling me I can do it.
What problems have you faced? I need help in math mostly.
What do you hope to gain from getting your GED? At my [...]

Name: Iesha
Age: 16
City and State: Adairsville, GA
What motivated you to get your GED? Because I am 16 in the 9th grade. I am about to be 17 in October, and I want to get my GED before my 17 birthday, so please help me.
How have your friends and family helped you? I don’t have [...]

Name: Monaris
Age: 22
City and State: New London, CT
What motivated you to get your GED? I want to go to college and had promised my aunt before she died I would finish school and make something of myself, and I really want to help people out with the field I want to go into.
How have your [...]

Name: Ashley
Age: 19
City and State: Frederick, MD
What motivated you to get your GED? What made me realize that I needed my GED was watching everybody around me getting their high school diploma and I always wanted to go to the military.
How have your friends and family helped you? My ex-girlfriend and her family and mine [...]

Name: Kevin
Age: 21
City and State: Boulder City, Nevada
What motivated you to get your GED? What motivated me on getting my GED is my future, I would like to have a brighter future and try to get a great career in life. I think with a GED you can have more job opportunities then a [...]