Personal Statement (Blog 4)

Respect and time management are two qualities that have impacted me. They did not fall out the sky, that’s for sure; I have been influenced by my dad. All my life he has been forcing upon me his ideas. I knew was trying to teach me wrong from right. What changed this was when I saw that these qualities stood out.

At first I knew that I had to respect him so that he could respect me. My way of thinking started to change and I lost respect for my father a little by little. Our arguments were pointless because they most the time I was trying to prove an opinion but never once did he disrespect me. I noticed this one day when I disagreed with something I cant recall what it was but my dad simply said okay. I was stunned but saw what he was really wanted; I had to learn to respect other people’s opinion. In college it would be the same if I disrespected someone they would do the same to me.

In addition I was always running late. Every where I went I was late. I was going to go to the movies with my friends. My dad was taking his sweet time to get the keys and turning on the car. I ended up being late to the movie, and was highly upset about it. My friends were a bit up set because they were waiting for me. I saw that being late was very bad because it messes up every one’s schedule and it’s a bad start. In college if I’m late I’m late and nobody is truly going to wait for me. It will just make my college experience horrible.

Without truly knowing my dads qualities were making an impact on me. I had to stop and think about what was going on. When I tool the time to think about it I realized his qualities. They will make a great impact in college and for the rest of my life.

Personal Statement

When I finished doing my research on colleges, The University of Nebraska at Lincoln ended up being the college of my choice. I choose this university because I saw that it was closer to home than other colleges. Not only was it closer to home it also offered an architecture program, that I heard is great. UNL will allow me to get into my career that will help me reach my goal.

My goal to be an architect requires a degree, without it I will not be able to have a job as an architect. UNL has a great program that will allow me to obtain my degree and follow my career path. I will have to push my self to keep my grades up because if I don’t I will not be able to continue to my third and fourth year.

In addition, having the degree will prove that I continued my path in getting educated. Neither of my parents were able to continue there educations, making me a first generation child. Seeing me strive will make them happy and proud that I took the opportunity that was given to me. I will show my advancement in life to all the people who doubted me. It will also be an eye-opener because it will show that I was able to succeed in college.

Success in college is very important to me that will show others that I was not part of the high drop out statistics associated with Latinos. To me, part of being successful is graduating from college were, finally, my time and effort will be paid off. Proof that I went to college will make others take me seriously. It will also show that I raised myself above those who did not take college seriously and just took it as a joke.

Going to the college of my choice will make me want to continue on reaching my goal. I will be close to home so my parent will have a chance to see me as I progress in obtaining a degree in architecture. My success will prove that I was able to overcome the obstacles that you face in college.

My First Week as a College Student

When I first walked in the classroom the teacher had not arrived so I wondered if she would be late, but the whole class had arrived thirty minutes early. I was still in a high school mind set and was expecting to sit in an English class were I would be lectured, not given the chance to ask questions till after class, and given a writing assignment which would be due the next day. This was making doubt myself, making me wonder if I truly made a good choice in taking the class, and I was not sure if I was ready to take a class with a real college professor.

When the teacher walked in, she seemed very friendly, said what was on her mind and she briefly introduced herself. She sat down but not at the teacher’s desk she sat at a table because all the tables were in a rectangular shape and that way it would be easier to have a discussion. To me it was different because I was used to having the teacher in front of the class. She went over her syllabus and we quickly moved into the lesson, she talked about what we needed to write, and our schedule that we needed to follow to be caught up with the reading. Everything was being done at a quick pace. At this moment was when I truly realized that I was taking a college level class.

The transition was not that big but, it was noticeable. My professor is different from my teachers at school and she also has a different way of thinking. I enjoy the way she teaches because I feel that I learn more this way. My writing assignments are not what I thought they would be but they are hard to write since I simply can’t just tell the story I have to put some thought and reflection to my writing. I am truly happy that I did chose to take English because I am really learning something and it is and eye opener. I feel that I am ready for the class and that I will receive a good grade.

Residential Life with Summer Scholars

The first activity that was planed for us was to do a commitment course, which didn’t sound so hard until I found out that we would be around 45 feet up in the air. I'm sort of scared of heights so doing the activity was already tough. What made it harder was that I needed to trust people that I didn’t even know to help me do the course. As we advanced we got to know each other a bit more and it got a bit easier to work as a team. It just so happen that my group took the longest to complete the course but it was all worth it because I got to meet new people.



When we arrived to Scott Hall I was just ready to go to my room so that I could shower. I was all hot, sweaty, and smelly from the activities we had done at the camp. I was just ready to go, but first we had to have a meeting. We were going to talk about the rules and how things worked around the the hall. I thought that we would sit there and listen to them tell us what we could do and couldn’t do in the dorms but I was wrong they gave us the opportunity to come up with our own rules. I thought that it was a great idea because that way it would be more likely that we would follow the rules.



During the whole week we were stacked with activities and things to do. It got a bit more hectic on Monday because I was a little lost as to where I would go to get the shuttle and what building my class was located. Everything went great the RAs were nice enough to show us were to go for the first day and they told us were to stand to catch the shuttle back to the hall. On the first day of class I was given homework which was a first for me. I had never gotten homework on the first day of class, I had to read and start on my essay but the RAs had also planned out an activity that we had to do. So it got a bit hard because we had to do homework and do the activity I saw how time management was really important and that it was something I would have to learn.