Vivian sounds too original, and that is not what I like to be. I like
I am the first in my family to go to college and it is both a good and bad thing in my opinion. It is good because I get to be the role model of my younger brother and sister, but a bad thing because I do not have that person I can look up to so if i mess up, it looks bad on me, hence i become that "bad" role model. I have to learn from my mistakes I always say.
As I am almost close to graduating, I realize that life as a college student is really short. I can remember when I was going to my freshmen orientation! Here I am four years later almost about to graduate with a degree that I have always done and wanted to do - to be a news anchor.
When I was in Elementary school we had a "morning announcements" every morning and was shown on every television in each classroom. Since I first saw it, I knew that that is what I wanted to do. When I was trying to figure out how to get into that program I had to be a fourth grade student in order to be one of the "announcers." I was a third grader and I kept bugging and bugging the teacher that was in charge of it to let me in even though I was a year younger. They finally let me and I was the first third grader to do the morning announcements. From then on, I had opened a 'door' for other third graders to get in. When I was in high school they had just started a morning announcement program as well my senior year and again, I was the news anchor for that. So since Elementary I knew that being a news anchor is what I have always wanted to be.
With extracurricular activities in middle school and high school, I was able to mature more and stay on top of grades helping to attend a school like UT. In both middle school and high school I was in the band as a percussionist. In high school I was in the drumline and was drumline captain for two years. They were the best times of my life because not only was I in the marching band, I was in the jazz band as a drumset player and pianist, and for a little while was in the Mariachi playing violin. Music is my life and I do not think I can live without it. Till this day I still find a way to play music and am currently in an ensemble here in Austin called 'Kunitan;' a Peruvian Andean group.
As my career as a college students falls short, I realize that I did a lot of things here that changed me for the better. I have done essays on things I never knew about, I had a class called 'Sex in the Wild,' I did projects I did not even know I can do! For example in this journalism class I did not know that I was ever going to learn how to make a video. Semester is almost done and I have made a soundslide project and a video! I must say I am proud of myself for the work I have done, but I think I am more proud to know that even though I have had family emergencies, trouble adjusting to the college life at first, and not learning how to live on my own, I never gave up.
