As a future student of Florida State University, I have worked hard to become the best student I can be to better your community. I have learned to take hardships and turn them into positive fuel to reach my dreams. I have learned how to take loss and turn it into a gain. I was taught these skills by surviving a tough childhood. When my brother passed away I learned, at the age of five, that life can be unfair. My mother turned to drugs, and I learned what it was like to fight grief alone. However, I had some good times as well. My sister was born and my dad got remarried and my family grew. I was able to grow from these sorrows. My childhood taught me that life never just hands you anything, that you have to work to get what you want. I
Approaching Prairie View A&M University was very exciting for me because my high school mentor, Ms. Hill-Jones, graduated from PVAMU and shared amazing stories with me about the students and staff. Hearing such great stories about the school my expectations were high, so once I arrived to the school and got situated I expected to be greeted by the staff but what I received was a nice to meet you and goodbye. My disappointment level started to rise then after that I began to walk to the café or msc as they call it ; when I entered I was greeted by this kind old woman, “How you doing young man?” she said really sluggish. I replied with a simple fine then happen to tell the lady my entire situation then she respond enthusiastically, “Honey, You’ve been here for less than a day give it time baby.”
* Describe the intersection of your faith journey with your collegiate goals at PBA. The intersection between my journey of faith and my personal collegiate goals is not something that can be simplistically explained, for the joining together of the two is a complicated, intertwined, beautiful, terrifying, mess of hopes and dreams. The word “intersection” is at first glance, uncomplicated, merely a definitive point at which two separate things join together for a brief moment. While my faith journey will intersect with my collegiate goals at PBA, the intersection is anything but ordinary.
My first thought of what I would do, as a career would be something far away from a high school. This was all true till my junior year of high school. I found my passion to teach. I found my passion three hours away from my high school on a fall weekend. I had an amazing opportunity to service as a camp counselor at an FFA camp.
I turned eighteen years old. I began to go to Louisiana State University-Eunice for my bachelor of science in nursing degree. School was going great. I began to socialize with a variety of people. Then I began to realize they weren’t my real friends; they just wanted to use me.
Growing up in the small town of Clarksville, TN my whole life, I never had to be the new girl at school. I went to high school with the same kids I went to pre-k with, up until my junior year. One afternoon, I heard about a new opportunity for me- Middle College at Austin Peay State University. Getting into Middle College was no easy task, but I took the chance.
I came to SDSU a little worried about how big the campus was because the area of the campus is bigger than my hometown. I did not know whether I was going to make friends and fit in like I did back home. Going to all of the events around campus has definitely help in getting familiar with the campus and finding people to hang out with. I have found a group of friends that I am excited to get to know more by attending these events with them. The college offers so many opportunities to get involved in many different things.
I 'm currently a college student looking to pursue the American dream. My parents are both from the Dominican Republic and in search of a better life, they moved to the Bronx, New York. Both working modest jobs to keep me in college to acquire a degree an opportunity they were not given. From working as cashiers at Taco Bell to being janitors. They saved enough money to leave our one-bedroom apartment in New York and move my sister and I to Indiana because it was affordable.
The classes I am taking this summer will be last required classes before I start my internship with UAF School of Education this fall. I pride myself of being hardworking student and because of this I am starting my internship one year than what was previously estimated. Financial difficulties will make it extremely hard for me to afford taking two classes during the UAF Summer Session. I have shown that I am dedicated student who will takes her college classes very seriously. I started my college career almost sixteen years ago, and returned several years ago to finish what I had started.
My educational goals are to achieve my Associates of Arts degree. During this process I hope to find my drive and passion and continue my education in order to reach this goal of a career that I love. Without achieving my Associates of Arts degree and providing me time to figure out what career field interest me the most I would be jumping into an unknown field in hopes that I like
It doesn’t seem too long ago since the day you dropped me off at Iowa State University. For you two, it probably seemed like I was leaving forever, but I returned home many, many times to enjoy your presence. When I’m not at home however, I find myself walking around different parts of Ames to find comfort when I miss you. On the very first weekend I spent here at Iowa State, Austin and I went for a walk.
As an entering freshman, at the age of barely eighteen, it is important for me to begin my college career making the best decisions possible. I would say they thing that “makes me, me” would have to be my determination. Throughout high school I have always made sure that when I needed help that I got it. I spent countless hours after school studying with my teachers when I didn’t understand what all we were doing in class. Ever since middle school I was put into accelerated classes and some were difficult to understand, I may not have gotten the highest grades in these classes but, I always tried my hardest.