After the first 60 minutes of lecture in my first Commercial Space Operations class, there was no doubt that I had found my passion. I was fascinated by the growth of the commercial space industry in our society, the engineering behind those suborbital and orbital space vehicles, and most importantly I was fascinated by the adrenaline I felt while listening to my lecture. Those 60 minutes changed my life. I’m a first year graduate student in System Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Thinking back when I was fifteen years old, I would have never thought I could have gotten this far in my college career. I moved to United States my sophomore year of high school and started taking ESOL (English For Speakers Of Other Language) classes and progressively moved to take honors classes in my junior year and AP classes as a senior. Even though I am a first generation college student, getting higher education was always encouraged in my family. Applying to college, getting accepted in a prestigious university, obtaining an internship, graduating with a bachelor’s degree and getting accepted into a master’s program they were all goals that I accomplished by learning from numerous mistakes. My family and I learned a lot from my college experience and we all worked hard as a team to continue reaching those goals.
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At the beginning of my college career, my dad had to work two times harder to help me pay for college; it was definitely not easy but like my dad always say “if you work hard now you will not have to worry about the future”. After my first year in college, I took numerous jobs on campus and apply for many scholarships to facilitate to pay for college. At the end of my senior year, I only paid one fourth of what I used to pay as a freshman. Scholarships, grants and working part time jobs were definitely incredible help to finish my undergraduate degree and continue my