My Journey Story At the age of twelve years old I started suffering from depression and anxiety at a medium level. My life has not been easy and I have faced many challenges small and big however I did manage to go on in life and decided to never give up. My grandfather passed away due to Alzheimer's disease; my mother struggled through a very deep pain of loneliness and grief, she went into straight depression and as a result, I was alone, I did not have her warm touch and soft hugs anymore. I felt lonely and hopeless without support from anyone because my father worked all day long shifts and by the time he got back home I was already sleeping. Spanish is my first language and growing up in Spain has been a beautiful experience for me. I did not speak any English at all when I first arrived here in the United States, as a result of this other students were judging me, criticizing me and telling me "Hey, you immigrant go back to where you belong to and don't come back you are not welcomed here". I couldn't say anything back because I did not speak English, I understood but I had no way to respond. Due to people judging me and making me feel like the worst kid in the world I was diagnosed with depression. I don't ever want to see my mother suffer badly due to an illness or a family member's loss, I do not want to see any of my family members suffer ever. I've always been a kid whose passion is for solving problems, criminal cases, murders and learning from people with dangerous mental illnesses. I want to learn more about how our mind functions, how it develops and its necessary needs. How us as human beings cope with pain, memories and trauma? What about a car accident or some sort of injury that interferes with our daily activities? It is so fascinating to learn about our human body and our mind. That is why I decided to continue my career in Thanatology and Funeral Service as well as Abnormal Psychology, I want to learn about the brain and our body. Psychology is an amazing field in which subjects about mental illness, sleep disorders, personality disorders and more can be taught. It is very interesting how our brain functions during our sleep. How do different people with different mental illnesses think and act in contrast to normal people with great mental health? I want to learn more about serial killers and why they think the way they do, and what makes them do certain things. While in the meantime Thanatology and Funeral Service is an awesome field to study and work at because as a mortician or funeral helper you learn how to embalm, make up, arrange and prepare the casket of the deceased as well as the funeral event. How chemicals mixed all together can make a substance apply to the deceased body and make it look as if the dead person was sleeping. Everything is so phenomenal and mysterious that caught my attention even more as I keep learning new things. This is the main reason why I am applying to this amazing scholarship I want to continue my career in the Psychology Field and be able to say to my family " I did, it was hard but I did". I want to make them proud of me and I will achieve.

My Battle At the age of nine years old I flew with my family from Spain to the United States because the economy in Spain was terrible, my parents were working hard every day multiple hours a week with little pay. We as a family were struggling very hard to purchase groceries or even afford to pay the rent for some months; we decided it was time to move to another country and start a better quality life or so we thought so. As a foreign student, I did not understand very much English and was having difficulties learning a new language, I could not complete my school work because my professors were not able to help me since I did not speak English well and no one around me spoke Spanish. I did not know what to do, and as a result of this other students were taking advantage of it and started bullying me calling me "Hey Immigrant go back to where you belong, you are not welcomed here". I understood but was not able to speak back and did not want to get in trouble because I was a brand new student. On top of everything my grandfather passed away, and my mother went into a deep hole of depression and anxiety she couldn't get out of after a few months almost a full year. I did not have her warm touch or soft calm words with me anymore. My dad worked all day at the construction company and due to his job he was not able to spend time with me anymore because at the hour he got back from work I was already sleeping and ready to start my school day tomorrow. As a result of all these actions and outcomes I also went into a very deep state of depression and wanted to just end my life. I was just a young girl seeking a better life in an unknown country to me, I did not speak English and nobody wanted to be friends with me because I was an immigrant. Then as I grew up I realized I still had a whole life ahead of me and I could not let other people judge me or criticized me because of my culture or religion. I made a promise to myself; to work hard and fight for my dreams and goals to turn them into a reality soon. Now here I am, I am still struggling but I am glad to be alive, still have my parents with me and not give up. Regardless of what happens no one should ever give up, we should all keep fighting always. I want to succeed in College, earn my degree in Thanatology and Funeral Service and make my parents happy and proud of me. I know I can do it and I would never stop struggling to go on.

My Beautiful Community As a Hispanic Student, I must help and protect my family members, my friends, my community and more. I have always grown up with a high education level coming from my dad; his lessons have taught me to become a better person and citizen. He always says to me "If you want to do well in life you have to respect, value and help others even if you are one in need as well when you do great things great benefits would come back to you". I believe him, he is always right. My family and I grew up in a very low-income household struggling with many necessities such as groceries, clothes, money and my education. When my father was young he did not have the opportunity to persevere in life and go on with his dream career, he did not have the right amount of money or his parent's support. As a result of this my father could not make his dreams come to reality however I am his only daughter and he wants me to persevere in life, to make my dreams and goals come true and what is most important to me is to make him and my family members happy. I want to be able to say "I did it, I made my dream a reality". I want my family to be proud of me, to be proud of my accomplishments. My father taught me multiple values and lessons about life which is why I am such a helpful honest, caring and compassionate person; I want to give everything of myself to everyone. Back in my high school years, I was enrolled in a class called "Learn to Serve". Help was given out to the community weekly, one day I decided to donate all my clothes to kids and families. Savers was the number one store location I chose. I donated everything I had; jackets, jeans, pants, shoes, boots, sweaters, coats, hats and more. Helping people out makes me happy. Salvation Army was also the next organization I decided to help I donated; Vegetable cans, Fruit cans, Soup cans, Tomato sauce, spaghetti and more. I also volunteer to assist at the Halloween Event Party located in Fall River, Massachusetts. Decorating the battleship around with Halloween decorations and passing out the trades of food was so much fun, also playing with the kids was such a fun experience. I love children and I want to always see them smile without worries. In the future, I want to see my country in a better social and economic state, a main topic not many people talk about or avoid is Poverty and Drug and Alcohol Abuse. I hate seeing small children with tears in their eyes and no food in their hands, not even a cookie. Also, there are still a lot of young adults and teenagers who can make the world a better place, they need help with their addictions. They deserve help in every way even if they do not want to hear it or neglect it, they still need support and help from our community. Because maybe one day these same people with addiction problems or poverty issues can make the world a better place for everyone. One day I want to create my foundation and help people in need; adults, children and woman with breast cancer. I want to help them every step of the way possible. I know I can do it and I would do my best to succeed. My dream is to graduate college, earn my certificate in Thanatology and Funeral Service, buy my own first house, and buy my first car. Help my family and make them proud of me. I know I can do it. Everyone can achieve it's goals and dreams as long as they fight for them and never give up.

My Beautiful Community As a Hispanic student, I must protect and help my family members, friends, community and more. I want to help people with donations; clothes, food, money and more. My family and I have always struggled with low-income money for our plans or necessities however I as the only daughter do not want this issue to keep on happening. I want to work hard and make my family proud, I am a college student with a big heart, I am lovely, I am friendly, I am passionate about my work, and I am smart and dedicated towards my studies. Back in my high school years, I was involved in a class called " Learn to Serve". It is a class in which we students have to help people around the community by donating food, clothes, and money to certain organizations and I completely fell in love with it. Savers was the number one store organization center to donate my old clothes; shirts, shorts, jeans, sweatpants, sweaters, hats, shoes, coats and more. I also donated toys for small children because they melt my heart, they are lovely and carry beautiful smiles on their faces, they are young and do not worry about life and seeing them happy makes me happy. Salvation Army was my second choice organization for donating food; vegetable cans, fruit cans, tomato sauces, spaghetti, soup cans and even more. I do not want families to starve to death or small children wandering around for food. If I can give out help without anything back I am more than willing to do so. My passion for helping people out started with the death of my grandfather and seeing my mother suffer in such a deeply painful silence made me realize how short life is and how we need to value every step of it, that is why I decided to follow the career path of Thanatology and Funeral Service while also taking Psychology classes. I want to work at Funeral Homes and help the family members of the deceased with their pain and grieving time, I want to offer them comfort and a better understanding of why their loved one passed away so soon. I want to help them with their depression or anxiety if they are developing one which many people during funerals and grieving times do. I know I can do it and I would try my hardest to succeed in life and put a smile on everyone else's face.

As a Hispanic student, I must protect my family, friends, community and the well-being of others. I feel happy and blessed to be able to help other people in need with all my heart and give them everything I can even if that could mean I am one in need as well. As a way to help others without anything back given to me, I wanted to donate clothes, donate food and everything else I could think of. Savers was the number one place to donate clothes; sweaters, jackets, pants, hats, shirts, shorts, coats and more. Toys for small children and babies' necessities. Than Salvation Army was an excellent choice of organization to donate food; vegetable cans, soup cans, frozen meat, spaghetti, tomato sauce and more. In my Help, the Community class back in high school we also had different missions to achieve weekly, one mission that caught my attention was to assist at the Halloween Party at the Battleship Cove located in Fall River, Massachusetts. That night I had to help decorate the ship with Halloween decorations, and serve out the food to the families what I loved the most was being able to play with small kids, kids are my weakness. I love small children and playing with them melts my heart, they are so happy and beautiful. When I grow up and become an actual adult I want to be able to create my organization and donate food, clothes, and money to families and people in need. I want to also raise money and awareness for women with breast cancer, I want to collaborate with other organizations and all together help raise a big amount of money for everyone in need. That is why now as a College student I am pursuing a career in Thanatology and Funeral Service while also taking Psychology classes because I want to be able to help people with their mental illness or struggles with depression and anxiety by giving out therapy. I want to work at Funeral Homes and assist the family members of the deceased with their pain and suffering. I want to offer them comfort and a better understanding of why their loved one passed away onto the next life. I know I can do it and I would try my hardest best to accomplish it even if it means struggling along the way as we all do to achieve a better future.

As a Hispanic woman I moved from Spain in 2012 to USA with the thoughts of having a better life not only myself but my parents as well. My journey has not been easy it has actually been one of the most challenging faces of my life I have because at the age of 13 I was being discriminated and abusively bullied by other students. The reason why? Because I did not speak very good English. As a result of all the curse words being thrown at me, I got into a very bad state of depression. I was all alone because I did not have any friends to spend time with, I did horrible in my school grades because I did not understand well the subject since it was all in English. I fought with my anxiety and states of depression for about 3 whole years until I decided to tell everything to my family, they helped me get it over with. I found a nurse and she helped me through my depression and take away the thoughts of killing myself because that's how badly hurt, I was getting better slow by slow, minute by minute I gained back my confidence and love in myself. Then in 2 years I learned English, I can speak it, write it and fight back with people who disrespect me. As time went by, I grew up and made a promise to myself to never let nobody take away my brightness regardless of my skin color, my ethnicity's, my language, my religion or what it could be. It is not a reason to treat others badly and make them feel miserable because that was how I felt for a time, as if I did not have any value. Now I'm 18, I graduated high school and I'm attending Bristol Community College in Fall River, MA to pursue my career in Thanatologist & Funeral Service. Now I look back in time and think to myself of how strong I was to never give up on my dreams and I always keep fighting. I can say now I'm finally happy because I am lucky to have met many beautiful people in my life who have helped me in everything and made my heart jump of joy. I start college on September 6 of 2022, my career is Thanatologist & Funeral Service it has always been a career I admire because I can do autopsies on dead bodies and also work as a therapist helping other family members overcome their grief. As I'm stating in this essay, I believe one of my biggest qualities is to never give up and I know this quality would help me more a million times in my life ahead because there's always going to be challenges to face and I know I would overcome them with all my strength. I would never give up on my dreams, I would always keep my head straight and never look back.

I'm Janina I was born and raised in Madrid, Spain. Since I was a little girl, I always liked to help others in need such as elderly people or homeless families. It breaks my heart to see small kids have nothing to eat, where to sleep or not even a small amount of education. At the age of 6 I witnessed how my grandfather passed away due to Alzheimer's disease final stage, my mother went through depression due to her loss and seen her in such way made me feel so stressed, alone and empty in my heart because I was no longer having her love, caring and affection towards me. I knew she was hurt, and I wanted to help her, but I didn't know how I was just a little girl. Since that moment in my life, I decided I wanted to study a career in which I could help families or people in general, at first, I wanted to be a nurse but then I changed my mind. I am now going to pursue the career of Thanatologist & Funeral Service Preparation. In this career I can ease the pain of families through their loss and help them overcome any obstacles they have because it reminds me of what my mother went through, her sufferings. Death happens at any time, it is a very deep feeling that kills you on the inside and it takes a lot of time for it to heal. I want to study the death of the patient; I've always loved Forensics because it's interesting and very engaging to see how the human body goes through a process of decomposition. Families need to know what actually happen to the body and the reasons. Families are in shock when they find out about someone special death or a family member loss, some family members go through a stage of depression and thoughts of suicide, depression even asking themselves why that person had to go away or if it was even their fault. I would work as a psychologist to help families with their grief, moments of anxiety, shock, or panic attacks which happen very often during the funerals or when the doctor announces the death of the patient. This is the reason why I know my career would be very helpful to the community because nowadays there's no assistance for grief loss and it should be something that needs to be taken much more care of. Death is something that would never go away, it hunts you always whenever you go however there's solutions for it, I want to heal people's heart, mind and body. This career reminds me of what I went through with my mother, and I do not want to go through it again. If I can ease someone's pain, then I would do it even if I just helped out a little bite it's my duty to provide comfort and support.

Spain has been my home my whole life because I was born in Madrid but at at the age of 12 due to money circumstances I had to migrated to the USA with my family. At the beginning I did not understood the reason of why I had to leave behind what I loved the most, my beautiful country, my friends, the food, the school. It was very challenging I was suffering a lot to try to accommodate to the lifestyle of USA. My family and I arrived to New Jersey first and we lived there for a few months however at the end we decided to move to Fall River, Massachusetts. It was much more economical and we had more family residing here. As a new student I did not know nothing of English, I was alone I could not do any work from school done, I did not make any friends. I was very depressed and I started to feel useless and lonely. I decided I wanted company I needed a pet because I was alone at house, alone at school I did not had nobody to spend time with or play with. My family and I adopted Jasmine, a beautiful white black cat female. Since the moment I met her she has become one of my best friend, she loves to spend time with me. Some people say that animals don't have feelings but in reality they do because whenever I was sad or crying, she knew, Jasmine knew. Jasmine would come running towards me, jump on my legs put her head on my chest and rubbed herself against me, this was how I know she was feeling all my emotions. I'm very passionate for animals, I admire them a lot. Jasmine is my biggest supporter and would always be.

As a Senior high school student I've had a great year with great experiences that help contribute the community such as: Donating food, clothes, home materials. I've also helped by attending events or special parties by organizing and decorating the place for the visitors. I went to the Fall River Battleship Cove during the Halloween Party and I contributed by decorating the place and playing around with the kids in the game sections. Since I was very young I always liked to help people, just make them happy without receiving anything back in return. I'm also enrolled in a Health Assisting Program in which I go to Catholic Memorial Home, help elderly patients with their mental illness or disabilities as well as help them with their daily activities. Taking care of old people it's something I truly admire a lot because I get to earn a lot of great interesting stories from their life and their lessons. The planet is getting damage as much time goes by the more we use it or the more we less take care of it and destroy it. The Earth is a beautiful planet but us as human beings residing in it have not taking well care of it and as my Health teachers say "It's not to late to make a change". We all should start worrying more about the Earth because one day the place we live in might be gone forever. I would give my best of me every day to contribute to the people in the planet and the planet itself.

I have a lot of dreams in my mind waiting to become real and stop being dreams. For my future I'm attending Bristol Community College to pursue my career of Biotechnology & Forensics DNA. I've always wanted to be a forensic investigator or lab scientist, I'm very passionate about crimes, missing bodies, finding clues of death causes and much more. I want to become someone professional in my life, make my family feel proud of me and have a peaceful enjoyable life. I want to be able to look back in time and tell my kids what I accomplished with my effort and suffer, anything truly is possible as long as you're willing to fight for it. I would love to work in medical labs testing DNA samples from victims and help find pieces of evidence. I want to earn a great amount of money to save for myself and my future kid's I want to give them the best because they deserve it. I want to make my dreams come true, I want to travel to my bucket list places, if possible buy my own house, buy my own car. Everything that means effort I want to be able to do it which is why I'm attending college. I know I can do it and I won't give up regardless of how hard it might get pr if there's any bumps in the road there would always be a way out.

Since I was a little girl I always had a big passion for learning about history or real life stories. I've always found libraries very interesting besides having an enormous amount of space and fun things to do. I have a sensation that there's a lot of lives living there but not spiritual I mean fictional, there's a lot stories written in books and they all sound very real. Libraries are like a whole completely different world to look at from a different point of view. One of my favorite books is called " Fractured" written by Karin Slaughter. The story of the books talks about the life of a college girl who has been kidnapped by an unknown person, it has a lot of twists in it and moments of anxious of not knowing what would happen next and where she currently is. Police officers and forensic investigators have to find clues of where this girl is and who the kidnapper or currently killer is. Since the moment I read the summary of the book I knew I was going to like it a lot because besides being a book about crimes and fiction, it tells the story of a murderer and the missing girl. In real life nowadays this is what happens with society, there's lot of missing bodies and families never get the chance to know what truly happen, who the killer was, if the victim was suffering or where's the missing person at, would they still be alive or not. Books have incredible stories, love, fiction, crime, horror, comedy. They can relate to society, it shows how the world truly acts and what happens in people's minds. I enjoy reading, I would never quit reading because it's one of my favorite hobbits.

Since I was a little girl I have always dream in big, living my best life enjoying the natures of the world and doing what I' most passion for. I always wanted to grow up and become someone professional in my life with a great career, passion and peace. The person that has always supported me to become someone professional in my life and enjoy as much as I can has been my father. My father has always told me" When you grow up I want you to go to college, pursue your career, buy your own car, buy your own house, get your own business, save money for yourself and future kid's." I would never forget these words because he's right, there's no life without success. Thanks to my father I have a lot of goals set on my mind such as: going to College, pursuing my Career, get my degree, get my job, buy my own car, buy my own house, travel to my dream place. I have accomplished a few so far however I still have a long way to go. I have been accepted to Bristol Community College in my career of Biotechnology & Forensics DNA. I'm working on scholarships to get as much money as I can because my career is very expensive and I only have my father to help me, I do not want him to do everything for me. I have travel to New York, New Jersey, Queens, Niagara Falls, Ecuador and Spain. I have worked at different places and met nice lovely caring people. I have a lot of goals but I know I want to try my hardest to achieve them and I know I can do it. I need patience and perseverance. Goals come true.

At a very young age I found out I was extremely passionate about love and feeling appreciated. It has always been my dream to become a certified nurse assistant and help elderly patients with their illnesses or disabilities. At the age of 6 I met my grandfather, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. My mother was very depressed to see him in that condition. I did not understood clearly what was happening but looking at my mom's face expression I knew something was wrong, it was bad. His final days were coming, he passed away a few weeks later. I did not had the right amount of knowledge at that time because I was innocent. However as I grew up I started to do research on my own and my passion for taking care of elderly people grew even more. Every time I see old people it reminds me of him, my grandfather. Now here I am, pursuing my dreams and having my career of Certified Nurse Assistant, once I graduate high school I can work at clinics or hospitals. Old people mean the world to me because they have lost their ability to do their daily activities and they need help. Some people don't understand what they're going trough and what they went trough in their past life. They're humans, they deserve respect and to feel loved and treated with warmth. Since little it has always been my passion to contribute to the community and this is one of the best ways to do it by helping others in need. I'm proud of what I'm doing and the best of it is that I completely enjoy it and love it.

My name is Janina, I'm an 18 year old senior currently graduating high school on June 3rd, 2022. In my last senior year I have had the opportunity to go to Catholic Memorial Home taking care of elderly patients with Alzheimer's or Dementia or just taking care of ill patients as well. At a very young age I met my grandfather, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, I was very innocent and little to understand why all of a sudden he passed away without knowing the actual reason. As I grew up my mother told me about his illness, since that moment I wanted to do a research on my own and become a certified nurse assistant to take care of elderly patients. Every time I see an old person it reminds me of him and how those 5 minutes of getting to know him mean the world to me. Patients with diseases are still human beings, if they are incontinent and pee on themselves that's fine, if they can't remember who you are it's okay as well. They're still human beings they deserve respect, to be loved and treated with warm. Old people should not be disrespected at any moment in their lives. If you're a person who doesn't show care or love to others then that means you have no empathy and in my opinion to have no empathy means to have no heart or feelings. Empathy is one of the biggest feelings, it demonstrates who you truly are as a person and what you like doing for others. Empathy represents a great personality with a golden heart.

As a Hispanic student I have a lot of great things in my bucket list such as: Going to College, Buying my own car, Buying my own house, visiting the Niagara Falls, being selected as one of the top 10 students in the class, getting scholarships, traveling to New York, New Jersey, Queens. I do not have many things that I have accomplished however regardless of what it is they do make me very happy, I have been selected as one of the top 10 students in my Senior High School Class, I have received lots of certificates of recognition for outstanding academic achievement, I have won a graduation cord for winning the Seal of biliteracy Competition for knowing four languages: Spanish, French, English and Portuguese. I have visited Niagara Falls, New Jersey, New York, Queens and they're all beautiful places with lots of fun things to do. As I grow up I hope to achieve so many much more valuable things and never give up on my dreams and what I really want to happen in my life. I want to become a professional woman, have a beautiful respectful caring family, travel to my dream places but most importantly be in a good economic, emotional, mental state. I want to be confident with myself as well as make other people happy, I want to make my family feel proud of me. I want to teach my kid's the importance of honesty, patience, loyalty, respect and love. I want to be a great mother and a great wife, I want to be a responsible adult achieving all of my goals.. I know I can do it and I would do my best to make it happen.

One of the most hardest challenges I've experienced has been to be an immigrant student and not have my goals set because of money circumstances. However regardless of my citizenship status situation I haven't give up on my dreams because I want succeed in life, become someone professional and have a peaceful life. Currently I'm still using my persistence to overcome this obstacle because I'm a very dedicated student and I truly want to graduate, get my degree and have a secure future for myself and my future kid's. It takes a lot of time , effort, strength and patience to not give up. Every time I applied to a job I got rejected because I do not have a social security number. It's sad and depressing to be in such a bad situation because there's nothing you can do besides having hope that there's a lawyer that would be able to help you. However there's always a little bit of hope and light, Bristol Community College accepted me regardless of my citizenship status, I'm enrolled in the Biotechnology & Forensics DNA class. I met Kendra my financial advisor at my high school and she has helped me find scholarships that match for me. She has given me more hope and more positive words to not give up. I know I can make it as long as I persevere and never look back. I want to make my family proud of me.

To encourage people around me I talked to them about my challenges as a Hispanic student. I tell them my story of my journey. As an immigrant student I can't work meaning I can't save money, get my driver's license or save money for college. Some people understand my situation while others don't however I do want them to know what I'm currently going trough. I know there's other immigrant students like me suffering, crying after school because they don't understand the language or just how to do the work. There's a lot of students that have beautiful goals and dreams in mind, they can make it, we need to be patience with ourselves. Dreams do come true as long as we persevere for them, battle and sweat for them. I always tell people to never give up, don't look back on the past, look straight ahead on what's next to come because there's always bumps on the road but what matters is to keep our head up and look into the stars.

My family and I migrated from Spain to USA and we are currently living in a small house. I want to help my family pay their bills or expenses but I currently can't because I'm an immigrant like them, I can't work, I can't get my driver's license, I can't go to the college that I wish I could go to. Without being able to do all of these things it means I'm stuck in a challenging situation. I do not have a social security number which specifies why I can't work, if I was to be able to work I would have already achieved great things such as saving for college, buying my own car, buying my own house, buy my parents their own house however due to these circumstances I can't. We live in a small house with two rooms and currently we are four people in the house, my brother is living in the living room with just a bed on the floor, it's very sad to see him like that. They pay 650 per month, we are trying to move to a different home but they're very expensive. I've realized that without money saved there's nothing you can do to enjoy your life, this is the main reason of why I want to go to college, get my degree and start working at what I love doing. I want to make my family proud of me even if it takes me a long time but I want them to see me succeed. I know I can do it, I have a lot of dreams and goals set in my mind.

At the age of 12 I migrated from Spain to the USA hoping to have a better economic life without actually knowing the risks and challenges my family and I would face. As an immigrant student it's difficult for me to save money because I can't work, I can't go to College, I can't get my driver's license. All of this means I'm stuck in a tragic situation because If I want to pursue my Biotechnology & Forensics DNA career I can't because of money issues. My father always taught me to be strong, dedicate and patience to myself regardless of how hard the situations are. He wanted to go to college, graduate and have his degree but due to money circumstances he couldn't make it. Now that I'm his only daughter he wants me to persevere in life, never give up and achieve my dreams and goals. The word " American Dream" means a lot of important things for me but the most I care about is to make my family proud of me and give them everything they need and deserve in life. I hope to use my college degree to demonstrate to immigrant students that anything is truly really possible as long as you fight for it. The "American Dream" means all of the ups and downs I've had trough out my entire childhood, it means all of the tears I've cried, all of the moments of anger, stress I've had. I know there's still hope, light for my family and I. There's certain scholarships that are beneficial to me and I'm applying to as many as I can to have money for college. This is a big challenge but deep down I know I can make it successfully.

The word Education has a lot of important meanings for me. Without education there's no respect or knowledge of how the world works, without education there's no future nor no life. Education represents Future, in this case it represents my future and where I'm going to be in 4 years. The career I have chosen is Biotechnology & Forensics DNA because it has always been my passion to investigate crime scenes, find clues or missing bodies. My dad always wanted to have his career after college but due to money circumstances he did not had the chance to go to college, now that I'm his only daughter he wants me to achieve what he couldn't. I want to graduate college, have my bachelor's degree, work, save money, buy my own car, buy my own house, save money for myself and my future kid's. As I get older and become an adult I do not want to suffer for money issues or not knowing how to pay bills or having debts. I want to live a very successful life without the help from anyone, I would like to be at peace at my own house. Just living my dream life I want to make my parents feel proud of me. I know I can do it, I won't give up on my dreams because dreams do come true as long as you're willing to fight for them, to sweat for them. When your dreams come true they're no longer dreams, they're accomplishments and for me to accomplish something means everything.

At a very young age my father always thought me to never give up and do actually something satisfying in my life, success in life and become someone professional. Work everyday, save money for my future and future kid's, travel to my dream place. He wants me to achieve this because he couldn't do it due to money circumstances. Now that I'm he's only daughter he wants to see me happy and achieve great things in life, actually work at what I like doing and not just working for money but instead work at what I love, work at what I'm passionate about. I always wanted to have a calm peaceful life with nothing to worry or having trouble paying bills or anything else that's important. This is the reason of why I want to go College, have my life secure and make my father proud of me. My career is Biotechnology & Forensics DNA, it is an awesome career which leads you to great paths and lots of medical labs to work at by performing blood samples, testing DNA, investigating crime scenes and creating criminal profiles. Forensics has always been one of my biggest passions because it's so engaging to see how the human body decomposes and how forensic investigators find missing bodies as well as finding clues such as blood, saliva, sperm, footprints. I'm passionate about making my dream come true. Work at a medical lab testing DNA it's my dream and I know I can achieve it.

Over the years I have faced a lot of hard challenges in my life but one of the hardest has been when I was 12 years old I migrated from Spain to come live to the USA without knowing the difficulties of how stressful it was going to be. As an immigrant student I can't work, I can't go to certain colleges, I can't get my driver's license because I need a social security number and I currently do not have one. Thankfully God always brings light and hope to everyone even in their darkest moments, I met my financial advisor Kendra at B.M.C Durfee High School and she has helped me through a lot, by helping me find scholarships that I can applied to. Bristol Community College has accept me regardless of my citizenship status, I'm pursuing my Biotechnology & Forensics DNA career. I have hope that our lawyers would help my family and I during these hard times to get our Citizenship and be actual legal residents, this way I can work, save money for college, my dream car, my future house and my future family.