A much blue sky idea of mine was to go into business and build affordable homes strictly for people in need, and not large real estate companies that pawn their property off for unaffordable prices. Many people fail to understand that there is a large majority of people in need of housing in America, and I feel as if I should be the someone with the ability to help give these individuals a chance at owning a place that they can call home. However, this is easier said than done coming from someone like me. Growing up, I always viewed myself not as a bright individual, but as someone who blended within the shadows of everyone's vision–an incidental character in a television show. I always thought of myself as a below average person among steady, or as steady as a child in grade school could be, learners. Now and then, I found myself scribbling tiny buildings in the corner of my school work, or creating buildings in “sandbox” video games. I’ve always had an interest in the way buildings were constructed, and how things were made. These drawings were just one of the many things I did to keep my mind off of my actual school work, which I considered myself to be a “failure” in. Until high school, I kept the same outlook on my educational prowess: the usual self-doubt, the mentality of never locking in on work–I had no clue what I wanted to do. I only did the school work because I knew of the consequences of not doing it. At this point I knew that I wanted to go to college for something but I honestly never had the energy to commit to the idea. After a horrible streak of bringing home a terrible string of letters on my report card, it was enough to turn my attitude around and make me seriously buckle down on my school work for once. After hours of what seemed like punishment, I finished studying and excelled in school from that point forward. This one decision helped me realize the great power I possessed, a power which eventually led me to earn multiple awards for academic achievement from Murphy High School and find out that my “scribbles” and interest in construction is a legitimate career path I can take. This experience has given me the confidence to hopefully earn a bachelor's and or master's degree in civil and architectural Engineering, either of which I hope to use in good faith to the American population in need of shelter. I feel that as an individual, we should not willingly ignore the problems in front of us, and within us.