hey

Up until this year I had no goals. I was just in college to be in college, like all of my other friends were, but this year things changed. I have been a student at Des Moines Area Community College since 2009, but have only been part-time up until this last semester. In my last semester I have realized that education is no longer a game. It is a way for me to have a better life and benefit the lives of not only me and my future family, but the community around me. There are many people in this world that do not get a chance to go to college, but fortuitously for me I am not one of them. I am one of the chosen few that have been given a chance for a better life, but, until only recently, had not given my entire effort to school and would have probably dropped out if it wasn’t for the people in my life that cared enough about me to help me realize how important education is.
My father and mother have been the shining examples in my life about how if you want something you have to go out and get it. My dad has been a farmer his entire life and worked in a construction business he started for several years. He is now the Faculties Manager at Cornerstone Church and still farms several hundred acres. The most important thing I have ever learned in my life was that if you want something you have to go and get it. My dad has woken up at 4:56am every day for my entire life, no matter if he was sick or not. There are no sick days when you have livestock depending on you, or there are crops to tend. Watching his example for all these years has inspired me to be all I can be and do whatever it takes to succeed.
My mother has a lot of the same attributes that I love about my dad. She is a hard worker, but is also a perfectio...

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...hat I would benefit a great deal from any financial support that I receive through the Des Moines Area Community College Foundation Scholarship. I have worked at jobs and have taken out student loans in order to pay for my education for the entirety of my college experience, but feel that I would be a great candidate to receive a scholarship. I am working very hard to make sure that my grades are high and that I am doing everything to everything in my power to accomplish the goals I have set for myself. I want to be a success and I feel that an education is vital in order to get the job that I want and to become the revolutionizer I feel I can be. I would be honored to receive anything I was qualified for and will work my hardest to make sure that the money given to me is spent to further my education and development as a person. Thank you for this opportunity.