I cannot recall one singular day of my seventeen years of life in which my family has not had to worry about finances. We have never lived in a house, rather we have had to drift from apartment to apartment, never planting any roots. The longest period I have ever lived in one location was five years, which means not even one-third of my life has been spent in a consistent home. Regardless of not knowing if I would have a place to sleep every night, I still tried my very best at school. I always saw education as a sort of reprieve from daily life, because even though we might not have enough money for food at home, learning was always free. This motivator put me in a viable position to take all advanced courses in high-school and by my senior
