The path to college has always been a mystery to me, it makes sense since I am a first generation college student. When I was little I did not understand why my parents had minimum wage jobs and not like my fellow classmates’ parents who were doctors, engineers, surgeons, etc. It all falls back to my parents never furthering their education and being stuck raising a kid at a very young age. I am grateful my parents took the chance to cross the border to give me a better life than in Mexico. If it were not for them, I would be living my parent’s childhood, poor and starving. My parents are hard workers and we have been through quite a journey, America seeming like a whole new world for my parents. They struggled learning a new language and it
