No one in my entire family went to college, meaning I am on my own. Growing up we barely had enough money to eat, let alone save for college. The idea that someone from my family was going to attend college was significantly beyond any thought. There is a great amount of pressure to become successful. Everyone seems to be looking up to me, which in turn, can be extremely stressful. Nonetheless, I have felt an enormous amount of accomplishment knowing I made it to where I am today. I used to ignore the fact that I was the first to move on to higher education. Not many people I was surrounded by came from the same situation, therefore it was not something I was proud of. Moving more into college I have realized that this is something I should
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This is not reasonable hours to start paying towards my student loans.Every spare hour I have is dedicated to working. Although working is helping me with many needs, it cannot get me through the next few years of college. It is easy to say, "just work more" , but legally I cannot and if I were to work more I wouldn’t have time for my college classes. It becomes contractionary. A normal day for me consisted of waking up at six in the morning to make it to an eight o'clock class, following that class I head to a study area in order to get any work done for all of my classes. Quickly it is time to head to my first shift at my work. My day doesn’t end after that shift either. I have a meeting for a program that will help with my future career as a social work. That ends at around seven PM and my next work shift starts at nine PM. Once my shift ends at two AM I am finally able to go home. It is next to impossible to fit in any more work to make a dent in my student debt.
My career will benefit our community and potentially our world. Social workers are in a very high demand. There are unreasonable amounts of social injustice in this world and social workers study nonstop to help social equality throughout the world. From children to elders, they help everyone. This is what I want to do with my life. I want to be apart of the change. Giving me a scholarship to get me through college is essentially
This is not reasonable hours to start paying towards my student loans.Every spare hour I have is dedicated to working. Although working is helping me with many needs, it cannot get me through the next few years of college. It is easy to say, "just work more" , but legally I cannot and if I were to work more I wouldn’t have time for my college classes. It becomes contractionary. A normal day for me consisted of waking up at six in the morning to make it to an eight o'clock class, following that class I head to a study area in order to get any work done for all of my classes. Quickly it is time to head to my first shift at my work. My day doesn’t end after that shift either. I have a meeting for a program that will help with my future career as a social work. That ends at around seven PM and my next work shift starts at nine PM. Once my shift ends at two AM I am finally able to go home. It is next to impossible to fit in any more work to make a dent in my student debt.
My career will benefit our community and potentially our world. Social workers are in a very high demand. There are unreasonable amounts of social injustice in this world and social workers study nonstop to help social equality throughout the world. From children to elders, they help everyone. This is what I want to do with my life. I want to be apart of the change. Giving me a scholarship to get me through college is essentially