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I Am A First Generation College Student

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I have grown up as a middle child in a small town called Valley City, where there is such a thing as “bring your tractor to school day.” I have always loved to learn and naturally strived to do my best in school. I am a first generation college student. My childhood dream was and still is to become a doctor. It all started when I would treat my younger brother, Anthony, as my patient. I mostly just covered him in Band-Aids. My family was pretty well off until my parents divorced. Since then, life has not been so easy financially. In high school, I continued to strive to be a good student just as I do now. Then, unfortunately, around tenth grade, my father had gone through a procedure gone wrong and ended up having paraplegia. Of course, it broke my heart to see him in the hospital and then in a wheelchair. It also scared me away from my childhood dream. What if I became a doctor and I accidently hurt someone? That is when I learned responsibility, not just the responsibility doctors have for their patients, but responsibility in general.
As a child, I always imagined myself going to university. It has been just a fact to me that I knew I wanted to continue my education. When I graduated high school, though, I did not have any money or even a car. I decided the responsible action to take, then, was to work. I took a job at Goodwill, a thrift store, and I saved as much money as I could. By the time I almost had enough money to afford a car I was looking into colleges. At

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