Many factors play in to having success during college. From studying to networking, everything has a purpose during the four years of college and every action taken has a purpose. Joining NSCS gave me benefits and opportunities that wouldn’t have been offered to me without them. For starters, NSCS is one of the main contributors to success in college through scholarship and career opportunities. Although this is the easiest benefit given to members, it should not be overlooked or taken for granted. The amount of money and time that leaders of NSCS sacrifice to focus on motivated, bright members, like myself, shows the organization’s morale standards. The organization tolerates nothing but the best college students and those willing to take
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The element of joining NSCS that can’t be accounted for on paper is the ability to make my family proud. Being a first generation college student and being honored with affiliating myself with The National Society of Collegiate Scholars gives them a sense of happiness that is not tangible. That happiness that I bring them can’t be taken away from them and it is because of the NSCS that it is possible. To come from a family that didn’t put a large emphasis on education, to self-motivating myself to earn a 3.75 GPA through two semesters at the 52nd ranked best university nationally, allows my family to fall asleep at night knowing the raised a young man that has no limits. My mother now has the opportunity to flaunt my success to her peers and show me off, not only does that reflect well on me, but it reflects well on my family and shows that a single mother can raise an intelligent, young man capable of anything he sets his mind to. My limitations are endless and that doesn’t just come from my self-reliance, it comes from the NSCS and their ability as an organization to offer me exclusive opportunities I could have never dreamed about
The element of joining NSCS that can’t be accounted for on paper is the ability to make my family proud. Being a first generation college student and being honored with affiliating myself with The National Society of Collegiate Scholars gives them a sense of happiness that is not tangible. That happiness that I bring them can’t be taken away from them and it is because of the NSCS that it is possible. To come from a family that didn’t put a large emphasis on education, to self-motivating myself to earn a 3.75 GPA through two semesters at the 52nd ranked best university nationally, allows my family to fall asleep at night knowing the raised a young man that has no limits. My mother now has the opportunity to flaunt my success to her peers and show me off, not only does that reflect well on me, but it reflects well on my family and shows that a single mother can raise an intelligent, young man capable of anything he sets his mind to. My limitations are endless and that doesn’t just come from my self-reliance, it comes from the NSCS and their ability as an organization to offer me exclusive opportunities I could have never dreamed about