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Atlanta, GA | Posted: December 15, 2017
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Summary Sentence:
Sharani White struggled in her first year at Georgia Tech, to the point that she almost had to transfer.
Full Summary:
Sharani White struggled in her first year at Georgia Tech, to the point that she almost had to transfer. Instead, through faith, perservance and help from a friend, she finishes her civil engineering degree this fall and has been accepted to graduate school.
Sharani White Graduate Video
Sharani White Graduate PhotoSharani White still remembers every detail about the conversation with her parents after her first year at Georgia Tech. She had returned home to Gonzales, Louisiana, and had to tell them a difficult truth: She was struggling.
“The only A I had was in GT 1000,” White said. “That's how you know how terrible I was doing.”
White had been a good student in high school, so when she sat on the living room couch and told her mom and dad she was going to have to retake two core courses, they couldn’t understand why.
“In my head, I just kept saying, ‘You guys don't understand. I study. I try. It's not working. It doesn't matter how many all-nighters I pull. I'm just not doing well.’
