Colorado School of Mines

the Bronze Star with oak leaf cluster, and the Purple Heart. Hillerman was born in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma, in 1925 and attended a boarding school for Native American girls, where he was one of only a few farm boys enrolled. The school was near a Benedictine mission to the Potowatomie tribe, where he absorbed much Indian lore. He graduated from Konawa High School in 1942 and returned to farming after a brief sojourn in college and after his father’s death. After the war, he received a bachelor’s…

am me. I am myself. To every last detail. Think of it this way, people are like snowflakes. No one is exactly the same. We all have weird habits, guilty pleasures, and weird interesting facts. But I’m here to tell you mine. I, MariElena Harmoni Pena, was born in Longmont Colorado on July 10th, 2002, In the Longmont Hospital. Pretty boring, I know. I don’t have a lot of memories, but the biggest one was when I turned two years old my dad left me and my mom. It didn’t effect me because I…

My Dearest Grandchildren: With any luck this letter will find you healthy, content, and loved. I pray that I have been a positive force in your lives, as my Grandparents were in mine. With that, let me tell you a little bit about life in 2018. Donald Trump is President. What an insane time! President Trump is a businessman, not a politician. Which is presumably why he was elected. Americans wanted and needed change. His antics are providing plenty of fodder for late-night talk show hosts.…

During spring break of 2016 I went to Winter Park, Colorado. That was the first time I had ever snowboarded. I had skied as a kid but I always wanted to snowboard. For Spring Break, my 19 year old brother put together a group to go skiing and snowboarding. The Friday night after everyone was out of school and off work, we went on our way to Winter Park. My best friend, Jade, got to come on the trip as well and we learned to snowboard together. We had to tell ourselves to be open-minded and don’t…

Growing up, I had a hard time dealing with acceptance as well as finding out who I actually am. My older sister Lindsey, who is almost 900 miles away in Colorado was the one who was always there for me. Guiding me through my teenage years, letting me know it was going to be okay and I’m not the only one. Sometimes I’ll come home stressed out from school or work, maybe it’s because I have too much homework or maybe I’m sick of my coworkers’ attitudes, my girlfriend is always there to love and…

College is all everyone wants to talk about lately. Where are you going to school next year is asked on a daily basis. The obvious follow up is generally a question about what I am going to study. I have answered the questions enough times to have them memorized. The one question that has been tougher to answer; how are you going to pay for college. Man, how do I answer that one? I had a real summer job for the first time, but only made around two thousand dollars. College, when inexpensive,…

This caused a feeling among students that their culture was not welcomed or allowed in American schools. Because discrimination in schools was so predominant, many Mexican American students did not finish school. According to Daniels, “in 1987 only 45 percent of Mexican Americans twenty-five years of age and older had a high school diploma” (Daniels, 318). When students are in schools that are severely underfunded and punished for speaking their language in their free time, it can be expected…

Going to college has been a life long dream of mine. As an adult it is sometimes hard to justify the cost when you are not one hundred percent sure of what degree you want to pursue. I have waited many years, praying for God’s direction and wisdom that I would know what I have been created to do. I know that as I am about to embark on this journey, God is with me. He has provided me with the clarity and a vision in which I attend to follow. Leading up to this decision has been it’s own journey.…

the vulnerable areas of the ineffective school security and the gun free zone policy that makes school ground an easy target for psychopath killers. To prove his points, he gives us the mass murder of 1999 in Los Angeles Jewish day-care center that committed by Buford Furrow’s, and the raped and the massacre that happened between September and October 2006 in Bailey, Colorado which committed by Nickel Mines. He brings his point across that allows gun at school can be effective to stop the…

Jasmin today, but tomorrow will be Belle. Jasmin is her favorite and Belle is mine. I like that Belle is smart and she has long brown hair like me. Our fantasy starts to build and we transform into princesses. Ms. Cohen bursts through our castle walls and yells, ¨Dinner!” Our fantasy crumbles and we go eat the Kraft mac and cheese that had secretly been on both of our minds. We normally just eat cheese slices after school at Annabelle's house but today felt different. ¨Can we please have a…