My Passion For Learning

Writing is not just marking letters, words, or symbols on a piece of work. My perspective states that writing is not just expressing yourself through words; in fact, it is mostly one’s expression; your emotions, thoughts, beliefs, etc. Correspondingly, according to myself, writing is extremely artistic and evocative way to reveal one self’s personality. Most important, I am in the creative writing class, because I desired to be in it, due to the fact that it is my passion, it is a way I can express myself thoroughly, and it makes me feel as if I am in a whole different world where I can reveal everything I desire.

Again by encountering both of Ryan and Michelle's struggles, I knew that going into Special Education is my passion. But, it was not only their struggles that made me want to go into a career of helping others. It is also from hearing about the past struggles that have happened for many individuals with disabilities in the Education system.

My dad was an orphan, and is yet to relocate his family. He immigrated to America in 2000, with nothing but the clothes on his back and immediate family. His purpose was to resettle, raise a family, and see his kids pursue an education to be the best of themselves.Working in ignominious jobs in factories to provide. Life as a whole was a problem. Places like grocery stores, public airports, and the fast economy of America were complications. Indoor plumbing, electricity, television, showers were all a brand new concept to comprehend. Learning English was the biggest challenge my family overcame. In my household growing up, my father emphasized education. He always said to me in our native language Dinka, “Lino, you get out of life, what you put into it”. Those words evoke nostalgic memories of my youth. Up until 3rd grade I was in ESL because I was struggling learning English. How did I get out? My dad would point and ask me to read or spell out objects to practice and become fluent. After one I excelled drastically passed the ESL exam and moved out of ESL. This was meaningful to me, many of the influences in my life can’t be able to say they hold a diploma, but they’ve showed me if you work for it you can achieve anything. Currently I'm the second in my family who will be going to college to get a degree, and it's the second greatest achievement to my father. I plan on improving the lives of my family, and my

Same as any other regular students who decided to go to college and committed to excellence, I also wish to have a chance for a bright future. However, there are many obstacles along the way. Before I came to America, I had never thought about college because my family could not afford for me to attend. When we had a chance to go to America, it was like a dream came true for my family. We believed that we would have a better life here and everything would be fine. As we moved to America, I was so grateful for a chance to go to school. Nonetheless, the language barrier was crushing my dream. In school, I could not understand the materials my professors presented because they spoke English at a faster rate than I could process. I felt that there was no way I can pursue the American Dream like I always wanted.

My family moved to United States from Mexico four years ago, because of my dad’s job. It’s been three years of committing myself to learning English and adjusting to a new culture. Although I still have a lot to learn, the volunteering activities and the friends I have had these past three years have helped me practice my English, as well as to make great memories. I taught that I will finish high school and go back to Mexico to start my University education there, because my family couldn’t afford to pay the university here. However I got a scholarship that paid for my tuition in college, so I was blessed to stay here with my parents and continue my education. I am looking forward to start at UTSA. Each time closer to my goal of getting my

My English was very limited when I moved here from Mexico, however during my High School year in the United States, I was able to improve my speaking and writing skills through the various writing assignments and daily interaction with my teachers. Unexpectedly, I made efforts which gave me skills to improve my knowledge. Even though I did not speak English even a little, I achieved my goals by using my discipline and self-confidence. Now that I am able to understand what people are saying to me in English, I remember how confused I was and my low motivation. Unfortunately, my situation at school made me want to go back to Mexico. Instead, nowadays my goals and dreams for a better future are my motivation and allow me to feel confident and

I was born and raised in poverty where my parents had to work more than twelve hours per day to earn the living. My parents could not even finish their middle school, and their dream was always to provide me a better education. I have learned so much from them as I was growing up: the value of hard work, integrity, and never giving up on my dream. My past six years were the most difficult experiences of immigration. When I first came to the United States, I became isolated in my new surroundings. All I know was a few basic words, and college for me was a big dream. I went to ESL classes at night and worked seven days per week in a nail shop. I had difficulty understanding the lectures and communicating with other peers. After I met many people and heard their inspiring stories, I have learned not to be afraid my language obstacles by talking with

My hope for college is to gain knowledge of different styles of dance and the science of how the body moves. Along with my passion for dance I have a strong fascination for how the body moves and works. My goal is to study both kinesiology and dance in college so that I can eventually get a job in both dance and physical therapy.

My desire and passion for helping others is intertwine with my personal and professional life experiences. Growing up in Guatemala, a third world country, helped me become the person I am today. My first twelve years in my native country taught me lessons that changed my perspective and shaped who I am and who I want to be in the future. From a young age, I had this great admiration for nature and in Guatemala I was able to admire it. I remember endless nights looking at the stars and patiently waiting for a shooting star. Nature was my play room. Life in Guatemala was beautiful but it wasn’t easy. It was not until I came to the United States that I begin to realize how much my mother had sheltered me from the violence and poverty that surrounded us. Sadly, my beautiful country is fill with corruption. The rich exploit the poor and laws are created to protect does in power regardless of their wrongdoing. In Guatemala, women are treated unequally because our society has rigid gender roles and has created a culture that takes pride in masculinity and machismo. It was well known in my small village that if a man found a female attractive and wanted her for himself he could “robarte” which translates to “steal you.” My mother and many other women in my family experienced this. My father was a policeman in Guatemala and he was attracted to my mother. My mother, on the other hand, was not looking for any serious relationship because she was only 17 years old. The city closest to

My true passion for engineering began when I came across the quote: "Technology are devices that make our lives better". Despite my first love of mathematics, my recent interest for engineering has come from two major influences. The first being my mathematics and physics teachers, both engineers by nature, who have helped me enhance the fundamental skills essential for engineering and embrace the importance of the field. The second being the learning about uses of technology in Computer Science, it taught me the magnitude of which technology contributes to our everyday lives has led me to intensify my desire to improve the lives of others.

Student obstacle (English): Overcoming obstacle, “overcoming obstacles and challenges, in solving problems, and in adapting to organizational change” (pg. 82 Whetten & Cameron). I have an English language abstract, which I overcome and I manage my time at work, home and school. When I come to U.S, I cannot speak good English. Also, I have a child and I was a single mother. It was hard for me to go to a store and purchase food or clothes, even I cannot take my child to a hospital without language translator. I really disappointed in myself the way I was looking help every time for the interpreter. I finished high school in my country Somalia, and that time I learn some English, but it’s not enough to talk with others. I start working after six months when I come to Boston. I used to try to learn good English every time so I can communicate with others, but it was not easy to me. Learning English is not easy when you have children and grown-up person. Then I went to school to learn English. It was not easy going to school when you do not have money to pay the college. For that reason, I used to search schools that teaching adults English for a fee. It takes me cabal of years until I can sing and study at a community college. I work hard and, I get help teachers and tutors to learn and understand the language. Today I overcome that abstract and I’m happy for my hard work and honesty of my life to attend university.

A lot of people throughout my life have asked me,” What is your true passion TJ?” Most people think automatically that its either football, wrestling or even mathematics. Yes, these are a few things that I love and would be grateful if I could pursue them as a career but none of them are my true passion. I believe and know that my true passion is working and or learning through anything I may do. I will explain why with a few examples of things I do throughout my day to day life.

I had built my comfort zone – and I was about to leave it. When I joined my elementary school’s robotics team as a fifth grader, I had no idea the kind of perseverance I would need to make it through the thick shell I had constructed for myself just to get through the first meetings. As meetings came and went, I began to listen to what my team mentor had to say because it really was applicable to everyone’s life, inside and outside of our team. Every meeting he would come and sit down with the students and ask us how our days were going and what we were hoping to get out of this team. I think he was doing it just to be nice, but I took it very seriously:

Passion is an emotion that human beings cannot control, it leads many down paths they never thought they would go down. I loved football as it became a vessel to unleash anger and stress, but that passion for that game came crashing down during sophomore year. That summer continued to have its struggles, but it continued to improve as football season was about to begin and I could not be more ready to start a new season. However, that dream season never came for me as on one of the last days of summer, I learned my dad wanted to have hip surgery. A very intense operation that my dad would need my help to come back as a new man. Which, seems like a good opportunity for my dad, but for me, it was the end of a passion that I thought I needed to be able to continue to obtain happiness and enjoy life. I remained worried. I remained dejected. I remained upset. All those feelings and anger were for naught as my willingness to succeed and try new activities turned my dad’s surgeries into a whole new world of opportunities for me to explore.

Being able to read and write is arguably the most essential skill needed in life. I was able to begin mastering the skill of reading at a very young age and to some individuals it may become later in life because it seems boring to them. I did not have an interest in reading until I watched the movie “Pearl Harbor” the one with Ben Affleck in it. This movie created my passion of reading by learning about the second world war. Also, I read books to learn new information on material. I did not do it for any type of approval from someone contradictory to Cisneros who always wanted the approval of her father (102). At a young age, I never enjoyed reading because it seemed boring, pointless, and a waste of time, but when I started to read about World War II I started to read more and more articles and books whenever I had the opportunity.