My Role Model In High School

Around a young age I did not have many role models that actually succeeded in school. The majority of them ended up dropping out because they said that they we’re not capable of doing it. So you can say that I was pretty much clueless as to what I was going to do with my life. There was no one around at home to help me with the work that I did not understand, and because of this I struggled to grasp things that others may have found that task very simple. Although I struggled with these things I did not allow that to prevent me from succeeding. When I was younger I always thought that I had the perfect life. A nice home, two loving parents, as well as three loving siblings. That was soon cut short when my parents split. My mother and siblings left from Bakersfield, and came to the valley. During the early years that we lived here my older sister left to Mexico, shortly followed by my older brother, but he was deported. This just left my younger sister and I. …show more content…
It was late in the year that I was summoned by the TRIO representatives from CSUN. When I arrived there they explained to me what exactly was TRIO, and they also wanted to know what my plans were for the future. At that point I was not sure about anything, and it seemed to me like I was back to square one. I told them that I was clueless about everything and that I was considering community college since I thought I didn’t have the potential to go to any other sorts of colleges. But they told me otherwise. They said that I have the grades to go to a CSU, UC or even a private university. So I began my search. I began my college search during summer vacation, but I wasn’t really sure what I was looking for, so I based it off of something that I was really passionate about, which was science. I began to look for majors as well, and went for Biology. I based my search on my major and distance, and ended up with CSUN, HPU and