MY ACADEMIC JOURNEY

THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF MY PATH

TO SUCCESS!

Nicole Wilkins-Thompson INT 470-90

EARLY CHILDHOOD
FROM BIRTH TO
PRETEEN YEARS
My story, my intellectual
autobiographyhow did I end
up in college studying
Interdisciplinary Studies? Believe
me, it was not an easy journey.
My childhood was had its good
times and bad times.

My
Mom
and I

My
siblings

I was born to an unwed mother that had to place her college plans on hold in order to raise me for the first
couple of years. At the age of three, my mother decided to go back to school and enrolled at tidewater
community college. There she met a gentleman that shoe courted and fell in love with eventually marrying.
After receiving her associates degree, she then had three more children with her husband. We had a great
life, never being without or having a need for anything. My mother had landed a great position with the
YMCA and she would work there for about fifteen years. After about 10 years of marriage, my mom and step
dad divorced.

Determined and Focused

Headed down wrong path

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND HIGH

SCHOOL

I MADE ITGRADUATED FROM I.C.

NORCOM HIGH SCHOOL, JUNE 1995

Faced many
trials and
tribulations
during my high
school years
but I was
determined to
make it
through.

My husband and children are integral parts of my life. I am doing this for them. I want to be
a great role model and instill values in them that will last a lifetime. They are the reason I
am the woman I have become.

Douglass Park
Elementary School
1982-1989(General
Studies)
Norfolk State
University 20102015
(Interdisciplinary
Studies)

Tidewater
Community College
2006-2009 (Social
Science)

Alf J. Mapp Middle

School 1989-1991
(General Studies)

I.C. Norcom High

School 1991-1995
(Marketing)

Pathway of My Success

Bachelors
Degree
2015
Associates
Degree
2009

Masters
Degree
2017

Critical
Thinking

Great
Interdisciplinaria
n

Analytical
Intelligence