Appalachian State University Career Goals

What specifically brings me to Appalachian State University. I have been living in Raleigh North Carolina for 16 years. I would like to explore more of the state of North Carolina have not had much of an opportunity to visit the area a lot in my lifetime, but it would be nice to see and get to know the region. I believe that Appalachian State University will help me further my career goals because I want to be an educator. Appalachian State has the best teaching colleges and many of my high school teachers graduated from Appalachian and hold me about the school, and hold the in high regard. Appalachian State University is a good fit for me in my personal history and influences were make that at evident. Some of the biggest influences on my life would be my family. My

Life tends to hit you in waves. Never constant of being good moments. It is often interlaced between ups and down. Leaving your home country with virtually nothing. Only with the dream for a better life for you and your family is a great example of persistence and determination which has been passed on by them to me. Being a first-generation American I want to be the first Generation in my family to graduate from college. Seeing my mother and father not have the same opportunity to pursue an education really motivates me to achieve that goal of a college degree, not just for myself but for them. My parents work exceptionally hard and I want to be able to say that I was able to improve my life so that their hard work was not in vain. My mother and father have both put a focus on education in my life because they came all the way here so my brother and I would have a better life. I have had my own personal struggles with education fact being that I was diagnosed at an early age with dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia. Struggled with standardized testing and other metrics that track conventional learning metrics, but I remain persistent. I was not going to let my disability impacts my