8B 6-Word Memoir

 “One shot, one opportunity, one life”

Sonia Sotomayor’s book “My Beloved World” was a very inspirational book. I enjoyed reading about all the challenges she faced. I believe they chose this book for our common read because it demonstrated a role model who overcame many obstacles to get to where she is today, Supreme Court Justice.  She taught us that college is a window of opportunities.

A first year student can learn that you don’t know what you want until you go off and try it. An example is my sister. She went off to college thinking that she was going to be a great nurse and that it was going to be so easy. Later she realized that it was becoming very hard, to the point that she didn’t have any free time to do what she wanted to do. When she got to her sophomore year she realized that she did not want to be a nurse. This decision was not just because it was hard, it was because she realized that she didn’t enjoy doing it.  She did not know this until she went of to college.

In her book, Sonia Sotomayor writes about how she struggles to write and learn English. Also she writes how hard she had to work in college. She writes “Adversity spurs me instead of knocking me down”. She believes that with every failure in life you have an opportunity to learn something. The purpose for this book was to “give people hope even when they have failed”. This book relates to many students that are now freshman in college. It shows us that failure sometimes is a good thing.