One of the most important things I have learned is to never give up and to always believe in yourself. I have experienced this many times, but there is one instance which has really thought me the true meaning of it. While in my freshman year of high school, I had some trouble to deal with. My school days consisted … Read More
Never give up
There was one point in my life when everything I would see or think of was the negative side of things. I could not be happy or ever satisfied with anything in my life because of how bad and selfish I was. My mom was working hard shifts at SAM’s to keep up with bills, which made her depressed and … Read More
Years of Learning
People learn from most of the bad experiences they’ve been through in their lives. They think about the different decisions they could’ve made and they try to change them. Some people only realize making a mistake causes you to learn from it. Growing up I realized this world wasn’t brought here to please anyone. It was created so people could … Read More
My Car is Mine, Not Anyone Else's
I just turned sixteen and I was going to get a job so I can get a car. So I applied at like twelve different places but I never got called and I was disappointed. I wanted to have some friends to come over. My mom said just invite a lot of my friends to come over and I could … Read More
My Parents, My Teachers
As a child of immigrant parents, neither of whom graduated from high school, I have often wondered how it was possible that all six of their children graduated from college and earned advanced degrees from some of the best colleges in the country — Harvard, Brown, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Columbia, etc. It certainly wasn’t the public schools we attended. Most … Read More
