An obstacle I've had to overcome throughout most of my education was the absence of assistance at home. This caused a great deal of stress on me as a kid. My grandma raised me, who is blind. This resulted in me helping take care of her since I was about the age of six or seven. I remember nights I would come home and stare at my homework for hours, trying to remain focused and also remember what I was taught previously during that day. I had many distractions, such as doing household chores before school work. Along with this obstacle coincided another. This was the fact that I lived thirty minutes out of our small town and we didn’t have a car. This is why I was never able to participate in many extracurricular activities that I wanted to