Why I Want To Grow Up In Rio Grande Valley

Living and growing up in the Rio Grande Valley, I always knew leaving home would offer me the biggest opportunity for success. Home offers many great things like familiarity, but that is what I’m trying to leave behind. We grow up in small towns where we are all alike. On one corner there is a Mexican food stand and right across there is, oh, another Mexican food stand. The very thing we love is what harms us the most as young students trying to make a difference. We conform and blend into everyone around us, our dreams are reduced into the reality that we need to be on our feet and working by last week in order to survive. In a small town we witness many things. We witness how individuals get robbed of an opportunity not because they were less qualified, but because they weren’t cousin of the cousin who is in charge. A good education will be valuable anywhere, and that is why I’m pursuing my education at the University of Houston. I want to make myself a valuable individual. We grow up in an education system that says we are the change the world needs and future leaders, yet our advancement is halted by where we reside and the amount of money we have. We stay home to avoid the extra costs …show more content…
Why don’t you stay here close to home?” We lack diversity in what is meant to be a “mixed pot” country; that is here, not in Houston. Being described as “the most diverse in nation” I knew I wanted to spend my university years at the University of Houston. A bigger city, more people, more jobs and more of everything. Even if I had chosen to stay home, it would’ve automatically made it harder to ever leave the Valley, I would never know differently. At Houston I’m going to have the opportunity to chase a dream not many get to. The amount of different things we are exposed to shape us as a person, and I do not want to be limited in experiences by staying home. I want to meet more people, from different cultures and backgrounds that could add to my