Everyone happens to have their own hero, well mine so happens to be my dad. As cheesy as that might sound, everything I have is because of the sacrifice and hard work my father has put in. He started working as a volunteer firefighter his senior year of high school. His interest soon turned into a passion and ever since then he has not wanted to walk away from from his career. As far back as I can remember, he has always loved to tell my brothers and I stories of his work shift from the day before. When we were younger however, this was not the case. He was working as a firefighter and a paramedic for most of my childhood. There were days when he would get home and the only time he would see my brothers and I was when we were asleep. I do not blame him for working those long shifts, he did everything he could to make sure that my mother, bothers, and I had a stable home. He then realized that he was missing many significant events from school but him being on shift did not stop him from trying to attend an event. I have a vivid memory of my first grade graduation where he picked me up from school in the ambulance to take me home. I knew he did it because he wanted to make it up to me since he knew I would get sad when my parents did not show up to my events. It was moments like those that made me realize my dad was my hero. In addition, not everyone can say that their dad goes into burning buildings because they enjoy it. As inflation has increased, society has been very difficult to live in. The price to live in this world has magnified which means that everything one does has to be budgeted. I knew that the price to attend school was going to be very expensive, but I had no idea how much it was actually going to be until I received my estimated billing cost for Houston Baptist University. This scholarship will allow me to pursue my education by paying one month's tuition. This will allow my parents and I to be less stressed about having enough to pay the month's due and allow us to save up for the upcoming month. As of right now, I have been working long shifts in order to gather as much money as I can to help my parents with my universities cost. There was a moment where I thought of not going to school because of how expensive it was. Being a first generation, I have always known that I wanted to continue my education and become someone that would make a difference in my community. As of right now I am going to school to become a nurse; however, this is not where I want to stop. My goal is to become an Anesthesiologist. With this in mind, all of the money that is going into my education will be given back in order to help my community. Nothing given to me is going unnoticed and everything will be soon given back.