Michael Callaghan Changed My Life

“As a kid growing up in Compton life was not that bad” said Michael Callaghan a 20-year-old, fourth year, undergraduate engineer major at the University of California, Los Angeles. “I mean I was blind to the fact that it was bad. See as a kid what you recall as the good life can be really something shady. I remember running down the halls in my apartment and playing games like step over the broken tile. If you stepped on a broken tile you were out. (Laughs) My biggest worry back then was making sure I wasn’t out.” Michael Callaghan reflects on the bliss of ignorance and how that gave him peace as a kid. “See as a teen you begin to wake up because you got to. I had to play dad to 5 younger siblings while mom was at work. Mom work so hard and always said her day was good even if her face said something else. Going through middle school was tough, man. I mean a 12 year old boy playing dad and kid. I don’t know how I did it man”. Michael Callaghan grew up …show more content…
I was fascinated at a young age at skyscrapers and roller coasters and how those things seem to defy gravity. Yet, like all high schools they not teaching you anything you need to know about life. Even though I got to go to a better school the curriculum was linear. They not teaching you how to cover holes in your run-down apartment or how to live on 100 dollars a month with a family of seven or how to save money to go to college. They are not teaching the youth. They are brainwashing us on how to accept what they think is right and obey. I’m not down for that. Ultimately I stop going to school. Once my mother found out she was hot! She talked to Uptown mom, Ms. Wathers and they made agreement that she would be taking me to school as well as picking me up from now on. Yet the only thing I really didn’t look forward to was Uptown physics club which was afterschool so that meant I was in the physics club after school.” Most people need to have