My Accomplishments In College

I completed one of the biggest accomplishments before coming to college, and that was graduating high school as the top 10%. As for what influenced me into doing so well in school is thanks to my parents and my grandmother. They knocked a lot of sense into me, whereas making me think of my future – earning money and supporting my family verses being a homeless beggar. I became more persistent and devoted into carving out my own life as a young adult. I grew up in San Diego, California and having to be the eldest of three children at the time. Whenever we misbehave or do anything bad, we do get punished in an old-schooled way. But one of the worst is having my father pack the whole family into the car and drive downtown, to where hundreds of homeless people lie still in the streets. He would say “Look around you, all these homeless people, they are here because they messed up in life – did not go to college, disobeyed their parents, and don’t have money”. This field trip always impacted me into becoming more obedient and yet, more close to my father.
My father – a technician – is my idol and one of the persons that influenced me into becoming an engineer.
My father was able to buy computers into the household and that made me and my siblings familiar with technology. Whenever the computers are acting funky and are in critical conditions, my dad intentionally gathers me and my siblings up for a lecture on how to reboot the machine. It was long and boring but at the same time, we are saving a computer’s life and as well as saving money. His teachings not only relate to the computers, but as well as electronic figures that are built from scratch – wooden figures powered with motors and batteries. This was what sparked my interest because I liked creating and repairing
things. In counter to what my father was influencing, my grandmother also sparked my interest into becoming a doctor that studies herbs. My grandmother is an expert when it comes herbs and most of them are used in traditional potions that can cure illnesses. She has always kept our garden full of life; same thing that I thought a doctor would do, keeping life under control. Furthermore, I fanaticized doctors to have the ability to “revive” the dead or even grant immortality of some sort. My fantasy thoughts inspired me into becoming a doctor, one who can save people’s lives or restore their health. Contrasting from being an engineer, who are good at fixing inanimate objects and good in math, all I had to do was memorized plants and procedures of healing when being a doctor. The choice of choosing either a doctor or engineer was hard when both professions are my favorite. A doctor, in a way, is also like an engineer who “fixes” people and get them back in shape; engineers fix and restore inanimate objects or machineries back to a suitable condition. Something that drew me back from becoming a doctor was seeing blood – extracting blood from the patients, seeing another person’s intestinal innards – all this scared me. I rather see the insides of machines, where different parts act as a body in whole, and things that don’t ooze blood in front of me. Today, I am here – the eldest of seven siblings, a graduate of Patrick Henry Senior High (2015), and attending the University of Wisconsin-Stout - to accomplish another goal which is to graduate with a degree in the Computer Engineering course.