GED Stories

Name: Brittany
What motivated you to get your GED? You need it to get by in this world. Everything you do in life requires a HS diploma or GED. Also my son, he means the world to me. I have to have a better life for him.

Name: Sandra
Age: 52
City and State: Middletown, N.Y.
What motivated you to get your GED? I have been trying so hard to get my GED. It would open so many doors of opportunity if I had one. I am getting older, and before I leave my family someday, I want them to see that I never gave [...]

Name: Edward
Age: 17
City and State: Kansas City, Missouri
What motivated you to get your GED? Well, what motivated me to get my GED is people, because I see people always talking about it and always making me think about it because it seems to me like if they were to be talking about me, let’s say [...]

Name: Andrew
Age: 17
City and State: Las Vegas, Nevada
What motivated you to get your GED? I dropped out of high school at the end of tenth grade, but you could say I dropped out the first day of the ninth grade. I didn’t have the motivation or anyone to push me to do my work, I [...]

Name: John
Age: 45
City and State: Gloucester City, NJ
What motivated you to get your GED? What motivated me to get my GED is myself! 45 years old, was laid off. I left school in the beginning of 11th, I only went to 11th grade for 2 days.

Name: Jody
Age: 32
City and State: Haughton, Louisiana
What motivated you to get your GED? Court.
How have your friends and family helped you? They’re doing it.
What problems have you faced? I don’t know, have not yet tried to get the GED.
What do you hope to gain from getting your GED? Learn more and become a cop.
Jody,
You’re just [...]

Name: Joshua
Age: 17
What motivated you to get your GED? Dropped out in eighth grade, was fourteen years old. Working a piss poor job. Fast food. I looked around at myself, at my coworkers, my family and friends. They were all great people but losers. Pot smokers, alchies, lower class people who were stuck in the [...]

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 [...]