This is me in my graduation as an Industrial Engineer. I wish I could come here and write that I’ve worked hard all my life to get to this point but I didn’t. In high school I barely even did my homework. I didn’t even want to go to college. But my best friend made my ass apply to the university of Illinois and I did and I got in. I was like “fuck it let me go to college, I guess it’s better than working full time”. And I started off in remedial math. See being from the south side of Chicago, the education system doesn’t have much faith in you. I remember going to school and literally sitting there playing UNO bc teachers didn’t care. I remember counsellors telling me to go to community college or a trade school….So fast forward to college. Like I said I started of in remedial math, then went of to pre calculus, then to calculus 1,2,3, then to linear algebra, then to stats, then to differential equations. I went through all those maths to get where I am now. I’m not going to lie to y'all and say it was easy and my hard worked payed of because it didn’t. I remember one semester I was working 30+ hours which caused me to fail 2 classes. That caused me to be on academic probation. I wanted to quit so bad because I thought I wasn’t good enough. I honestly don’t know why I didn’t quit, but I kept going. I got 2 internships in a fortune 45 company. And now 6 years later (yes it took me 6 years to graduate and there’s nothing shameful about that. College is not a race. Take your time!!) I have a job lined up where I get to travel for the next 2 years and work in aerospace and military defense. I finally got to tell my mom that she didn’t have to work. And I was the first one in my family to graduate.
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