Growing up in a first-generation immigrant family, I witnessed my parents’ hard work ethic and challenging traditional Mexican customs. My parents migrated from Mexico as teenagers… Read More
College Essay: My Parents’ Sacrifice Makes Me Strong
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College Essay: How My Mother Inspires Me
I remember my childhood fondly: looking out the window at a beautiful lake, watching the latest Nickelodeon cartoons on a big flat screen TV, driving… Read More
College Essay: I Will Protect Families Like Mine
March 21, 2014, my dad went to court. As my family and I got to the 7th floor just before my parents entered the courtroom… Read More
College Essay: I’m Telling My Own Story
Listen to the digital audio version of “I’m Telling My Own Story.” “What does that mean, Mommy? Why are you crying, Mommy?” My first… Read More
College Essay: Loving My Own Skin
I get STUCK! I don’t know what to do. I don’t believe in myself. I don’t even understand ME! Is she better than me? Yea,… Read More
College Essay: I Am Because They Are
It was an early Saturday morning in September 2007, and I sat on the couch with my parents, coddled in their arms. I stretched my… Read More
College Essay: My “Right Way”
My whole life there have been expectations about how to live the “right” way, even though the “right” way wasn’t my way. The “right” way… Read More
College Essay: Sum of All My Parts
Korean. Korean adopted. American. Immigrant. All powerful words that make me who I am. People sometimes ask me when I knew I was adopted. My… Read More
College Essay: One Thousand Miles
My mom shoved me into the car again. I didn’t know where we were going this time. I was only six and already didn’t know… Read More
College Essay: Speak It into Existence
“Can you say that again? I didn’t understand you.” In my childhood and even today, I can be difficult to understand. My family mostly spoke… Read More
