I, Mikayla Jade Herrera, am a Native American senior attending Bloomfield High School. I was born in Shiprock, New Mexico in 1997, but was raised in Bloomfield which is a community that is very small, with a population of 7,801 residents. It is the perfect size to walk around and do activities that involves everyone. I am a first generation student of my family planning to attend a four year university and the second of the grandchildren to graduate high school. I am currently living with my grandmother on the reservation, about twenty minutes outside of town. My family consists of my grandmother; who is the most caring woman because she has provided me with a house to go home to, my aunts; who are like second mother to me are all funny and
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I study everyday during my study hall hours, as well as after school doing my homework, to turn assignments in earlier than the deadline. My whole family has inspired me to pursue my college education because they are constantly telling me stories about their teenage years. They have said that they wanted to go places and make differences but they ended up creating a family early in their lives instead. I have selected to do a double major in both chemistry and criminology because during my junior year my instructor, Mr. Hank Starr, in my Honors Chemistry class inspired my love for chemistry. He is very energetic and enthusiastic about teaching, he has so much love for science, so much that he passed it down to me as well. I found my love in criminology from my legal system class, instructed by Ms. Varissa DeHoyos. She used to be a police woman before she became a …show more content…
I will get some help from my family, but unfortunatley they don’t make that much money, so I really can’t ask them for suport. I plan on not taking student loans or private loans because I hear how mych debt other graduates have along with the time it takes for them to pay off school loans. Work study is something I plan on doing while I am in college. I also plan to work during the summer and save some money that will be used for my books and supplies. With the scholarships I will gain the ability to attending college with the ability to choose my major to go into the field of Chemistry and
I study everyday during my study hall hours, as well as after school doing my homework, to turn assignments in earlier than the deadline. My whole family has inspired me to pursue my college education because they are constantly telling me stories about their teenage years. They have said that they wanted to go places and make differences but they ended up creating a family early in their lives instead. I have selected to do a double major in both chemistry and criminology because during my junior year my instructor, Mr. Hank Starr, in my Honors Chemistry class inspired my love for chemistry. He is very energetic and enthusiastic about teaching, he has so much love for science, so much that he passed it down to me as well. I found my love in criminology from my legal system class, instructed by Ms. Varissa DeHoyos. She used to be a police woman before she became a …show more content…
I will get some help from my family, but unfortunatley they don’t make that much money, so I really can’t ask them for suport. I plan on not taking student loans or private loans because I hear how mych debt other graduates have along with the time it takes for them to pay off school loans. Work study is something I plan on doing while I am in college. I also plan to work during the summer and save some money that will be used for my books and supplies. With the scholarships I will gain the ability to attending college with the ability to choose my major to go into the field of Chemistry and