Week 2 Exploration: Storyboard

1. My MCBS Story

2. Before I started the MCBS Program I had been going to college on and off since I graduated high
school in 2005.

3. I had always thought I wanted to
going into the healthcare field and
become a nurse.

4. I even went to a magnet program in high school and trained to get a certification as a nursing
assistant by the age of 16.

5. I could not find a job as a CNA and began to bounce from job to job in the retail industry while
trying to go to school and taking care of my mother.

6. My mother had always been ill.

7. She was on oxygen for most of my life and I had always been the one to do the chores in addition
to my schoolwork and, eventually, work.

8. Her health continue declined over the years, especially after her stroke in 2012 and I became her
primary caregiver.

9. Becoming a caregiver to someone you love is
completely different than taking care of other
people, but I realized that the healthcare field might
not be what I wanted to do.

10. However, I had a son and needed a secure job.

11. So, I continued to go to school, not enjoying what I was learning and skipped my classes more
than once.

12. I even switched majors a couple of times from nursing to education and back to nursing.

13. I eventually had to stop going because my financial aid ran out and would have to pay out of
pocket for the last couple of semesters.

14. Shortly after quitting school, I began working at an Assisted Living Community, giving care to
others, then going home and providing even more care to my mother and my son.

15. I eventually became physically and mentally exhausted and I had to tell my family I was either
going to become a full time care giver to my mother or devote myself to my job.

16. They understood the stress I was under, but they lived too far away to help me provide any care
for our mother, so I continued to work 40 hours and spend my nights cooking, giving everyone a
bath and get very little sleep only to wake up and do it all over again.

17. Soon, I decided my family and my well being was more important to me and I quit my job.

18. Unfortunately, my mother became too ill for me to provide care on my own and we had to
place her into a skilled nursing facility, leaving me jobless and having no real excitement for
nursing.

19. A few months prior to losing my job, I watched a Call of Duty tournament hosted by Full Sail on
their campus.

20. I looked up the school at the time
and had become interested in what it
had to offer, but at the time, I had no
spare time to devote to school again.

21. So, after losing my job and not being able to find work in over four months, I decided to pursue my
passion for media and gaming, more specifically eSports.

22. So, with hope, a few months later, I enrolled and began my journey through the Media
Communications Bachelors of Science degree.