Moving To Wisconsin

Leaving my home in Hawaii and moving to Oregon was one of the hardest things for me to do. Maybe I would have felt better about it if my parents had asked me for my opinion before picking up our lives and moving to some place I had never even heard of before. I know I shouldn’t have cared that much. After all, I was only a 1st grader and even now my parents don’t consider how I’d feel before making decisions, so why would they then? At the end of 2007, I said goodbye to my best friends for the last time and left for Oregon.

I attended Braden River High school until I heard about the opportunity to participate in the dual enrollment program at SCF. I have always been motivated in school, but was ready for a new challenge. I started at State College of Florida my senior year of high school as a dual enrollment student. During my first semester, I took thirteen credit hours and earned a 4.0. The second semester I increased to fourteen credits and again earned a 4.0. By May I had earned twenty six college credits and retained a 4.0 Grade point average. I have always had a passion for school, so there was no chance that I wanted to take a summer break. In May, I enrolled as a non-degree seeking student so that I could continue going to State College of Florida until I received my high school transcripts. This summer I have earned another fourteen college credits and so far have maintained my 4.0 grade point average. I plan to attend State College of Florida in the fall and spring to earn my AA degree and then transfer to either University of Florida or Florida Atlantic University. I want to study microbiology and cell

I was nine years old when I moved to California from Japan, all the way across the world. Moving to California was quite possibly the weirdest experience that has happened to me as a child. Trying to move from a place that I pretty much spent my life in than literally going across the world without knowing anything about it was very foreign to me, however my parents used to live in california for about one or two decades.

I was about nine years old when I first came to the United States from Haiti. Although I was old enough to understand that we were moving, I did not quite understand the importance of the move and why my mom kept referring to America as the land of opportunities. In the beginning, I hated everything, I did not know the language, I missed my friends, I missed Haiti, I missed the familiarity of things. However, my mom constantly reminded me that this is for the best, that our lives have changed for the better. So, I nodded and continued to be unhappy until I started to understand the language, until I started making new friends, until I missed Haiti less and less, and until the United States became home.

My dad, Jim, moved from Wisconsin to Minnesota. From Wisconsin where the weather is cold, the people are jolly, and where you could go to any restaurant on a Sunday and the Packer game would be on. To the land of a thousand lakes and the Vikings. Many people didn’t move to Wisconsin because of the weather. Many left because of the weather.

In 2009 my family and I moved from Chicago to Dubuque. I was 6 years old when we moved to Dubuque and it has really help me to be who I am today. My family and I packed up our bags and got on the road to Dubuque. The reason we moved to Dubuque was because of my dad's work. My dad works at Bodine Electric Company as an accountant. I would say it was a really emotional move but I was only six and I probably didn’t really care. When we got to Dubuque we checked into the Grand Harbor hotel/waterpark where my sister and I had some fun in the water, after that we looked at some houses and eventually chose the one I'm still living in today.

When I was nine years old, my parents, two siblings, and uncle decided that it was time for us to move from Missouri up to chilly Massachusetts. Both my uncle and father were construction workers. There were so many projects in Massachusetts, it was sensible for us to move. Financially, this was also the solution to our money problems. All around we were all very excited for this move, all except for myself.

Coming into Iowa State, I was deadset on becoming a dentist. I was going to graduate from Iowa State with a high GPA, score high on the DAT, and get accepted to a great dentistry program. After taking my first biology and chemistry classes, that plan quickly changed. I was working a part-time job, but other than the 15 hours a week, I was hardly productive. I ended my freshman year very discouraged with a 2.60 GPA. I then switched my major to marketing with a second major in management. I knew that it was a lot easier for a GPA to go down than up, so it was time to buckle down.

For the first 16 years of my life I lived in a small town in Wisconsin. I’ve gone to the same school district until high school. My parents and I then decided it was time to make a change. The mountains are a big part of my life, I am snowboarder, so overall we decided to move to Washington state.

Staying in Wisconsin has been a wonderful two years, and I benefit from the academics here. As a computer engineer, I’m encouraged to take both computer science courses and electrical engineering courses, and the idea of being a person excel at both software and hardware intrigues me. This semester I am taking Verilog Design, Compilers, and Microprocessors as such, and it is such honor to take these as early during my sophomore year. Outside of the classroom, 24/7 office hours and lab hours and countless free drop in tutoring around the campus has not only helped me familiarize professors and industry used software/hardware but also learn course materials better. Education in Wisconsin has been caring and systematic and my studies has thrived with it.

Initially I was terrified. I never thought I would go back to school. I did not even know the process to take to get back into school. For the next week or so Chelsea hounded me about college, the constant talk about the notion made me begin to consider it. A brief college search went under way until we stumbled upon Florida State College of Jacksonville. Noticing the multiple campuses throughout Jacksonville, Chelsea pointed out how flexible this school appeared to be, and it should not interfere with my job whatsoever. Already wanting to take my career to the next level, I decided to enroll in Florida State College of Jacksonville in hopes to eventually pursue a degree in

In second grade, I had to move here because my parents said that Cupertino has great schools that teach you many things. My mom didn't really like my old school because we had to pay to go in since it was a private school, I would complain about the food, and apparently the teachers only led you while you learned so you wouldn't be able to be independent. I however, absolutely loved my school at that moment, and I wanted to stay in San Jose badly. But children have to obey their elders, so I joined my dad in the U-Haul truck and drove off to our house. During the first few months of staying in Cupertino, I was super angry at my parents for dragging me here without my permission. Amongst the twelve months of me living here, I later found nothing

Financing an education can be a very difficult task. Having a job takes time away from other important areas of life, such a schooling, and friends. However, since I was paying for my education on my own, there was no way around getting a job. When trying to find a job I was looking for a job where I could feel challenged to think critically and that would keep me motivated. I choose to apply to the pharmacy because I thought that it would be a good way to become educated about medication, which would be beneficial as a veterinarian, as well as being a job that would keep me mentally engaged. After working there, I also realized that my work was very important to helping the people of the community that I live in. This gave my work a sense

Neither Diane, nor I, have family in California and we thought it was important to be near family, so our plan had always been to move to Minnesota before our children started elementary school. Since I traveled so much at an early age I thought it was important to move before our children started elementary school. My wife is part of a large family and my parents were the only ones still in Arizona, so Minnesota seemed like the logical place for us to select. I loved being a police officer, most of the time, and thought about continuing in that profession when

When I graduated from high school, I was admitted at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I enrolled in the School of Business. My major was Accounting. I did so to please my parents and what I thought would be the best fit. I was not very happy, and I must confess that I was bored to death. After two years of studying something that I did not like, I changed my focus to School of Social Work. I was taking elective classes in Social Work/Mental Health Counseling and realize that this field held my interest and really represented how I viewed myself and the world. I was out from College for 5 years. Working with the Department of Social Services and numerous nonprofit organizations. For the last 5 years I have been working as a Social Worker for Department of Social Service Child Protective Service Investigator. I actual love my job because it is customer (client) oriented and I got to practice my counseling skills indirectly and directly with my clients I encounter on an daily