Even though, it’s admirable that at that age I had such an entrepreneurship mentality, this dream was due because in the isolated rural town in Durango, Mexico, where I grew up little girls did not dared to dream past being housewives. Clearly seeing my family’s economical need, I thought that opening a tortilleria would allow me to support them and our small community by creating job opportunities. When I immigrated to California, at the age of thirteen, my life changed course and when I began seventh grade I learned that not only education gave me options, but that I could be more than a tortillera owner. The summer before my college, for the first time, I asked myself what made me happy and what I saw myself happily doing for the rest of my life. Since that summer, I have being working toward becoming a professor. A Ph.D. would allow me to continuously grow and create a path for more people like
Even though, it’s admirable that at that age I had such an entrepreneurship mentality, this dream was due because in the isolated rural town in Durango, Mexico, where I grew up little girls did not dared to dream past being housewives. Clearly seeing my family’s economical need, I thought that opening a tortilleria would allow me to support them and our small community by creating job opportunities. When I immigrated to California, at the age of thirteen, my life changed course and when I began seventh grade I learned that not only education gave me options, but that I could be more than a tortillera owner. The summer before my college, for the first time, I asked myself what made me happy and what I saw myself happily doing for the rest of my life. Since that summer, I have being working toward becoming a professor. A Ph.D. would allow me to continuously grow and create a path for more people like