Personal Narrative: My Hardships And Challenges In Life

In life, people face several hardships and challenges, whether it is financial, emotional, or physical. But as many successful people would say, it is not the hardship that defines a person, but it is the reaction to the challenge that truly defines that person. I like everyone have been through some of those challenges, and I see that it is through hardships that help mold me as the student I am today. Growing up as the youngest in a large French-speaking, African family of seven is not easy. My parents, with no education in the U.S., work full time jobs; thus my brother, the oldest of the five, becomes third parent to me. It was tremendously hard for me. It took up until the second grade for me to finally understand the language of English,

That talk my father had with me stays with me to this day and helps me work hard in college. The first semester in college, I finish almost all my classes with A’s and hope to do the same this spring semester. I do realize my high school grades may not show I am a top-notch student; however, my unofficial transcript as well as my grades my senior year of high school do show progress. I as well as my four siblings are motivated to work hard, and it pleases my parents to say they have five kids in school—two in graduate school and three in undergraduate school. Nonetheless, after visiting the campus of UTSA with my sister attending graduate school there and hearing nothing but how great the school is, I sincerely desire deeply to attend the school next semester in the fall of 2016. Not only because of the great amount of internships and multiple ways of being involved with the school, I want to be a part of the diverse culture UTSA, seeing and interacting with students from different cultures and backgrounds. I know at UTSA, I would only be influenced by focused, hard-working students, while also influencing others with my ambition for success in obtaining my Finance