Personal Narrative: My Academic Journey To Colorado Christian University

I spent a year of college trying to be African. Afrobeats vibrated through the walls of Beets-Veenstra’s first floor dorm. My Christian college had an open-door policy. Walking past the ninth door on the left gave visitors an eyeful of my black hips swaying in circles as if an invisible hula-hoop entangled my waist. I had to get the moves I learned at the parties right. The beats were different from the hip hop music I regularly danced to. They were smooth tempos, but faster than reggae and bodies rocked with more control. My roommate complained about the hours I spent dancing in front of the mirror. We were not flat mates the next the year.

Following a two year mission trip in Brazil, I applied for a prestigious service scholarship available at Mesa Community College. At the time, I was living in the Northwest, over 1,000 miles away. My pursuit and dedication to earn the scholarship drew the attention of Duane Oakes, the college’s Director for the Center of Community & Civic Engagement. Impressed with my initiative and follow through, Mr. Oakes took it upon himself to mentor me as a student leader. His valuable support furthered my political science education by introducing varied student leadership opportunities, resulting in becoming the President of the Latter-Day Saint Student Association (LDSSA). I learned to manage LDSSA with order, delegating responsibilities and engaging

‘Just 2 more years, El,’ I thought to myself as I walked into good old Norwest Christian College, ‘Then you’re off to uni.’ Sighing, I wandered the hallways until I found the room I was looking for. Room 156. Of course, to showcase how much of a lucky person I am, I had gotten Math as my homeroom. Lovely.

There are many different events as well as experiences within my life that will give me a positive influence on my academic work with Colorado Christian University. The one that stands out is not really a single event, but many different events that happened in a very short amount of time. About four or five years ago I was a single boy living at my parent’s house, working at a grocery store and sleeping till noon on my days off. I was pretty content with my life to be honest. I did not have much of a plan or any direction for my future and I was not worried about not having a clue as to what it was I wanted to do with my life. I was dating my wife at the time and we had been pretty serious for a while. I finally proposed to her and we got

My journey to St. Joseph’s College started with me trying to get into another school. After moving back to the city from Orlando earlier this year, I originally attempted to start school back in the fall of last year. Despite a failed effort to thwart the bureaucracy of the Veterans Administration.

Originally, I was born in Indiana. But a little accent maybe from Texas. My wife is from Texas, and so I spent many of my years growing up in Texas so a little bit that picked up. And then, I was lucky enough to go to Southern Adventist University graduated from there and took a call down to Florida. And so I spent probably about nine years almost ten years in

When I was at Brigham Young University as a student, I was heavily involved in different student activities as well as leadership programs in order to leave my comfort zone and learn how to work with variety of different people as a team. Especially, I co-founded a new student council for students from Asia at Brigham Young University, serving as a vice-president and a head of event marketing. I tried to unite students from Asia through social, educational, cultural events and to provide opportunities to serve others so that there are no intellectually, spiritually, or emotionally poor students from Asia. As a vice-president, I presided weekly performance meeting to assess progress of upcoming events and keep track of teamwork in order not to burden council members. And I also explored the funding opportunities that are offered by Brigham Young University Student Association and raised $5,000 by sharing our cultural experience to the local high school students during the fall semester of 2013.

My plan for college is to attend the local community college, College of the Desert. I plan to get my education there while I save up money to move to Los Angeles. I do not know what I plan to do with my life after college, but that is the very reason I am going to college. I need to be introduced to different thing s so that I can decide what I want to do with my life. My objective for further education is to introduce myself to what I will eventually be doing for the rest of my life.

I choose Florida Atlantic University because I felt in love with the sprit of the school. In my opinion FAU has all the requisites to provide me with an extraordinary education. In other words, the school is unknown for one of the best public University in Florida. For me is an honor to be able to represent the university and to able to enrich my academic journey at Florida Atlantic University. Most importantly the locations of the school was very important to me because I want a calm yet diverse area, which I can feel safe and comfortable. Once I step into FAU I knew it was the perfect school and everyone there were so attentive. The smaller classes more of a one-on-one with professors it very important for my educational learning. As a communication

For my summer 2015, I lived in Calvin College's dormitories as a housing assistant. This job included waking up early to check in summer conference guests, to issue keys, and to direct the guests to their respective rooms. In addition to that, my responsibilities included answering inquiries pertaining to hall services, and generally serving as a resource to residents and conference guests.

When I got the admission from MC college, I was living in different city, and one of my clause friend from Alabama told me a lot of bad things about people who work’s in MS college, and student and how they treat international student because he used to study here. I thought that will be a difficult time especially if you going to spend a long time with people who don’t like you.

Throughout my life I have always enjoyed writing and speaking to others. In high school I had many opportunities to speak to organizations in the surrounding community about volunteerism and 4-H. Having had this opportunity opened my eyes to the joy that I have for reaching out to others on matters I find important. I am currently an Agriculture Communications major with an Agriculture Business minor. My journey at Oklahoma State University has allowed for tremendous growth in many areas. I have broad knowledge of journalism, computer skills, public speaking, and many aspects in the agriculture industry. The past two years at Oklahoma State have fueled my dream for a career in public relations. Having the ability to reach out to consumers and

I met my fiancée Juliana for the first time in California State University Long Beach, which was held in May 2010. I went for my friend’s graduation and she was accompanying with her friends who was also graduating. What connected us closer is we had friends in common from the same university. I noticed her couple of times, without letting her know that I was looking at her. After we left the graduation program, I asked my friend Ahmed Abulhoul, about Juliana and he knew about her because they had friends in common. This was a bridge for connecting us and later I did send her a Facebook request. As I said earlier we had friends in common and she got to know who I was and from Facebook we started our initial communication. I had a strong feeling

My Cornell journey started 1.5 years back when my husband decided to apply at Johnson. I have lived the Cornell dream with him, starting with his first day and then attending multiple events commuting from Mexico along with my job. During my entire experience, I have interacted with both the AMBA’s and two year students and have gained multiple insights into the Johnson community. One cannot help but fall in love with the campus, student vibe, late night study hours, socials, treks, and so on.

After graduating from high school I decided to go to a small town community college first to try and save some money before transferring to a 4-year university. My english professor at the time wanted us to shadow someone in the field that we were interested in. At the time I wanted to become a police officer, I decided to shadow a one of the night officer that Sunday so I would have a legit excuse for miss my morning classes on Monday. The night was pretty uneventful until early Monday morning, someone called 911 saying that a man at a gas station had taken the gas nozzle and started pumping gas all over himself and lit himself on fire but the flame went out. The gas station attendant had shut off the gas before he could try to light himself