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Dear Friends,

I have a paper to write about my career plans, goals and personal ambitions. I am having a writer's block right now and I would gladly appreciate the help. I will post the essay below. THANKS!:)

As a college freshman I have many goals, career plans and personal ambitions. I am a Latin-American and take pride in my culture from the . However, being part of the first generation in my family has been a struggle growing up. With the skyrocketing prices for a college education, I fully agree that the John Gyles Education Award Scholarship will help me to exceed my educational goals.

As my high school graduation approached I knew college would be the hurdle I was encouraged to surpass. Looking back at the past four years of my high school career reflected many of my accomplishments as a person and a student. I realized how rigorous my school was in order to help students reach the ultimate goal of graduation. Setting goals for the future became part of my agenda on a daily basis. Once I entered college I began to expand my horizons because of the many opportunities presented to me. I participated as an active member in the Latino Organization and attended most of the events. In one of our meetings, with an environmental group on campus, I had learned how much our world suffered from pollution and the danger of scarce resources. I had begun investigating into internships and wanted to pursue an internship that advocates for less toxic waste and cleaner water. With more experience in this area, a goal of mine would be to participate in cleaning up the city and spreading the message of the problems our environment faces if people do not change.

Another one of my aims would be to keep an overall 3.3 GPA throughout my years in college. After obtaining a place on the Dean’s List in my first semester, I want to continue the path I have been taking since my high school years. I like being an over-achiever and in result proving to myself that I do have the ability of taking a challenge. Moreover, I will take all introductory courses in business and take courses needed for a job in the non-profit sector. My future career will take place in a non-profit organization. I would preferably want to be involved in non-profit management in order to help in building up the ideal organization. Reaching for an MBA in Non-Profit management is a lifetime goal I yearn to achieve.

Because of my passion of community service, I enjoy assisting successful organizations that help in the aid of people in need. Since my earlier teenage years I have had an interest in child development, community awareness of poverty-stricken communities, animals and immigration issues. Coming from immigrant parents has molded my ideas as to where I would end up career wise. My parents had to deal with discrimination because of economic and language barriers, and because they were from another culture. Immigrants do a lot for this country and I would like to dedicate my life to helping them. The results I want to create are high-level policy changes across the . I want to continue volunteering in the community to further my knowledge on the major issues I want to help in.