Hello!

My name is Mackensie Rohloff.  I am a wife, a mother of five – three boys ages 6, 4, and 2, 9 mo. old twin girls, and a step mother of a 12 year old girl.  I am an in-home daycare provider of 12 children and a bartender/waitress three nights a week.  I guess I didn’t have enough on my plate so I decided to enroll at LSC. 

I don’t have a specific moment, rather a lot of life situations that prompted me to want to return to college after 11 years.  I seem to enjoy doing things backwards – getting married first, having children then going to college.  I even read the newspaper from back to front.  I almost always take the hard way around things, I guess it’s because I work best when stressed.  Working in two dead end jobs is a major reason for returning to college.  Daycare is very rewarding, I get to raise my children.  However, I will not be majoring in anything child related.  I hope to close this chapter in 4 years. 

I currently am taking the online AA route with the intent to transfer to

Bemidji
State to pursue an online Business degree.  I hope to become a business manager or executive.  I like to make major decisions and have a “say” in important issues.  My decision to return to college is of course, because of my children.  I would like to be a great role model for them, I want them to have what they need and want.  Also, I don’t want to work two jobs for the rest of my life.  I am a hard worker, but I would like to distribute that hard work and energy to my family instead.  I also feel that most of my life I have tried to please others first and I always put myself last.  Receiving a college degree will not only benefit me, but my family also in so many ways.  I look forward to the next chapter in my life.