Essay about Scholarship: College and Childhood School

Submitted By Smenald014
Words: 441
Pages: 2

Ever since I was a kid, I have always wanted to be something important. I remember playing with my dolls, and being their nurse making sure they would never get sick. After growing out of my childhood school did not really matter so much to me especially learning. I'm not going to lie, I worried about getting good grades in school but only to please my parents. When you're a kid, everything just seems so easy, the world is at your feet, and you have this mindset that when you get older you can do anything. Now as I'm growing older, nothing is simple anymore. When my sister graduated high school and began college. She was the first one to graduate in my family which made me gain perspective in life. She has been the person I have looked up to. I was just one when my parents decided to give my older sister and I a better future by coming to the United States. It's upsetting knowing my both parents did not finish high school so they could work and get money to pay for bills, food, and the other necessities that there kids needed. They just wanted the best for us. My educational plans are to attend a four year university or at least a two year community college where I would at least get my basics and my associates degree and work from there on up. I wish to become a nurse in the future and maybe even go into criminal justice and become an officer and hope to bring changes in the society that we live in today .To help me accomplish these goals, I think I have academic potentials that can be put