Scholarship Essay: I Am A First Generation College Student

The foreclosure crisis is the second major financial dilemma of the twenty-first century. To solve this, the roots of the problem need to be dug up and exposed followed by replanting with an appropriately improved regulatory system to help build stronger roots for the future. It seems that the free market system can't be free anymore given its intertwining roots extend way beyond domestic to international financial systems. There are two fundamental causes to the latest credit crisis: 1) poor quality securitized mortgages and 2) insufficient underwriting for credit poor borrowers. Secondary (downstream) problems making the financial crisis more complex include underemployment and business failures. Many banks,

Growing up I never envisioned myself to become a part of the medical field. To this day I am still in disbelief this is the direction my life has taken. I remember the first time an at risk teen outreach counselor showed up at an afterschool summer program right before I entered high school and asked what I wanted to be growing up. It was the first time I was legitimately forced to face my future head on. My father left when my mother became ill and was put on disability so I never had any real guidance or previously discussed the issue with anyone prior to that day. I naively replied "CEO of Microsoft"! It was the only thing I could muster up jovially on the spot. His reply has always stuck with me and now has become a motivating force in

My father is going to retire in some years and my mother is a house wife. They both have invested in their house heavily therefore these reasons might affect my family’s ability to fund my college tuition.

I am a first generation college student that has made it to a higher education. I see myself as the second daughter, that has come out the land of pride and production. I am from Richmond, California, but that’s just where I geographically from, when in reality I came from a strong family of immigrants. My parents both came to the United States as a young 26, and 24-year-old parents of one child. I did not come until two years later that I came, I came into the world, and was already marked with the name of an anchor baby. As I grow up I did not really know what I was, what I did was always question myself, am I just a reason to keep my parents here longer? Why am I called an anchor baby? I felt that I did not fit in but my schools I went to school always had a mixture of students. I did not know what I was or who I was, I had not direct connection to any ethnicity. When I was in elementary school there where a mixture of Whites, Asians, Latinos, and African Americans ethnicities, grow up in a multicultural area I didn’t think about race or class as much as late in life. Race was a topic that I did not really think and talked about until I was placed into a private school that class was visible, and I began to be more aware or class and race. I would not talk about race or class at school, but I would wait to talk about it when I would get home.

1. Being the first-generation college bound student in my family means a lot to me. I hope to inspire my sister to attend and strive in college. This also brings a lot of stress on me because if I don’t accomplish this it could change the outcome in my sisters’ future education. With college comes debt, coming from a low-income background it is hard to see myself actually attending college. There is always a way to pay for college as an alternative and usually, it is scholarships. This something I hope to learn more about during the L.I.F.E. Program at CSU this summer.

Curiosity has always driven me toward new experiences, such as attending school in Chicago to become a first- generation college student. I am thrilled to fulfill my curiosity and apply for a summer research program where I can begin preparing for my future career.

I utilized the University of North Florida’s search bar through the library to find my article. I typed into the search bar “motivating first generation college students”. I wanted to find research that explored different ways utilized by institutions to motivate and retain their first generation college students. I also narrowed down the potential results by selecting geography of the United States as well as selecting peer reviewed literature within the field of higher education. The reference for the article found is:

The new “American Dream”, why make it when you can just sit and do nothing all day while taxpayers money goes to you and the rest of the country forgets about you? I mean, I want to be able to be lazy and never have to work while other people have to pay for me by my own doing and my own choice. I am talentless, useless, and absolutely no help to society and that's why I've made it my goal in life to live in terrible conditions with the world assuming that they, of all people, know what I need and what I’ve done to let my life to get to this point. I could have a job that barely pays enough for me to be able to live and I if don’t, there's no way that I'm going to be able to get one. I mean, who would ever hire someone that's chosen to let their life get like this?

Being from El Paso Texas I always felt like there was more for me in other cities, but I never really got the chance to see what even my own state had to offer, but that all changed when I got accepted into Upward Math and Science. It gave me the push I needed in order to embark on my journey of becoming a well-rounded person. It gave me the real life experience I needed to determine if I would make it on my own when I go to college. Now I am able to see myself living far away from my parents which is something I cannot say for many of my peers. Upward bound also awakened something inside me. Before the program I was filled with self doubt when it came to many things, but spending my summer in Arlington with fellow students and mentors all

Every day, every one, in the world goes through a challenge, big or small. They affect and impact us significantly. They change the way we think, love, act, and approach or do things. Challenges either frighten or motivate us, but they are what make us the person we are today.

I am a single parent first generation student. My family is low income and my father left us when I was beginning 9th grade after coming home from prison two years previous. He not only left us but my five month old brother. My three D's in first semester freshman year were hard to increase not only because we moved three different schools in a span of 4 months but I also had to fill into my fathers role as the caretaker of my siblings. While my mom was working I had to watch my baby brother which explains my large amount of absences, I do not want to seem as if I am excusing my self because I am not I let this moment in life define me for a short period of time before I final snapped out of it and realized moping would not excuse my performance

Ever since I was a young kid I have always been interested in movies. My grandma, who was full of the wise the life experience left, always knew about my interest in movies. She feed my vain for the art. Even though her religion, she professed Adventist of seven-day religion, didn't let her go to the cinema, she always found the way to took me to the cinema. She and I enjoyed watch movies. We used to sit in the darkness room, with our faces illuminated from the reflection of the light which rebooted from the screen, both absorbs in the plot of the movie which made us laughed or cried. After the movie, while we went back to her home, she started to talk about the movie. She had a particular point of view where the main story

Only 89 percent of students actually enjoy school. I was told in eighth grade that freshman Friday's were every Friday and students would get shoved into lockers. Another thing I was told was teachers are really mean and they don't know how to have fun. That is not true. The final thing I was told was there is a lot of homework, there is no homework if you use your time wisely. High school is and enjoyable and happy place if incoming ninth graders can remember details.

I thought was fully prepared for college when I walked across the stage on June 1st, 2015, but I was completely wrong. College is a whole new lifestyle that you eventually learn to adapt to everyday. The advice you hear from parents everyday is something you take with you as you navigate throughout campus. Some of the previous advice my mother gave to me is the advice I should of listened to. Now that I am older and on my own, it’s up to me to figure out how everything works.

What are the challenges college students are facing today? Students are under a lot of pressure