I have been living without knowing what I would truly want to be when I grew up. It was always my goal to become an engineer of some sort to satisfy my parent's standards and ideals for me. I have been exposed to my parents struggling and pushing to meet a threshold for bills and finances. Even through the valley of this struggle, they remain by my side and help me through my problems. Because of this, I wanted to become someone who could change my parent's lives through the boundless struggle that a lot of parents go through and live by. Because of this, it gave me the perspective to avoid jobs that I would not have passion for and to pursue something where I feel free and not bound by the power of others. Over the years, I have developed a passion for entrepreneurship and technology. Technology has always interested me. When I was younger, I would learn how to fix errors on my devices and always have to figure out issues with my old devices on my own because my parents would not know what to do, so I would self-teach myself all things technology. It got to a point where whenever there was a tech-related problem, my family would go to me for help fixing the problem. My passion would grow into computers, where I would learn about each different computer part, such as a GPU, CPU, and RAM, and their different functions. For entrepreneurship, the struggle I see in people to barely make it in life and grasp life daily has pushed me to want to learn what I can do to break the shackles and power of money and its effect on the people around me. My academic goal is to earn a bachelor's degree in a computer-related field and become a cloud or AI engineer, and my career goal is to possibly become an entrepreneur of some sort while being certified in cloud or artificial intelligence. Through the years of my childhood, the experiences and memories have shaped me into who I am today, as have the passions that I have developed to this day. My interaction with my friends and family took a lot of conflict and love to make me realize what I want to become, from my mom introducing me to cloud engineering to my friends believing my dream of entrepreneurship is too risky and will not benefit me. However, I have the courage and bravery to continue to grow in every aspect of my life. I was able to make it this far without realizing how far I had made it. Sometimes I look back, wondering how I persevered through the trials and tribulations of school and life, and become proud of what I have become and what I have accomplished so far. I intend to major in Computer and Information Sciences or anything that can get me close to the cloud, and with these goals and career choices, I plan on giving back to the people who got me to become the person I am today and in the future. I hope that with my current goals, I can support and benefit society, especially with the ever-growing growth of artificial intelligence and the cloud. I financially need this scholarship because it will allow me to pursue higher education without taking on extra debt, ultimately continuing the cycle of debt that follows through my family. I have a goal and a plan to completely remove debt that has been piled on my family for years. Thank You.

Soccer, or fútbol, is one of those sports that has stuck with me ever since I was a kid, where the passion drove me to become a better player daily. However, life has its obstacles and twists that no one could ever expect, especially me. My family and I would end up joining the adventure of constantly moving from house to house every 3 years to find the right home. Well, we found that home and have been living in it for the past 6 years, but my passion for soccer had slowly staggered and was becoming a thing of the past. In elementary school, I ended up playing only soccer during recess every single day instead of the other sports and activities going on, just because it filled me with fulfilling joy. I would go on to middle school, where I was able to play for a team in 7th grade. It was an experience that I had never experienced before, the actual competitive atmosphere against other teams excited me and made me nervous as well. At this point, I was able to make friends and have new experiences I never thought I would have ever again. However, this blinded the truth behind my playtime on the field as I would sit on the bench for hours almost every game, not realizing that I was not getting the playtime I deserved. The first tryouts were a struggle to go through and now I could not even play in the games, It hit me that I was probably bad at the sport and was wasting my time. I would have one game, where I was able to be the goalkeeper and saved a freekick believing that portrayed what I could bring to the table on the field, but I was wrong when the next game the same bench-warming would resume until the end of the season. 8th grade would become a nightmare for me when it came to my favorite sport as I did not make the team. This would have become the lowest point of my soccer career at this point. The crushing feeling that you were enough for something you love. It hurt and would haunt me for months. Despite that, It taught me to become more, which meant practicing more and becoming better. To be ready for high school, the era of my accomplishments to date. High school would become full of awards and achievements that surpassed what I had in middle school. It surpassed my expectations as a player overall. Everyone seemed to be a part of a club, but I was not due to the pricing. However, my performance and game from all that practice led to me becoming a varsity in my junior year of high school. The experiences from my past taught me to be diligent and strive for more on the field and off. It would teach me to break every barrier and obstacle that came in the past and to put forth the effort and work to reach a goal, no matter what. Because of this, my high school team and I would push forward before becoming district champions, a title I never thought I would reach. My high school experiences until now would fulfill my passion again when I was a kid and fill me up with an overflowing joy for the game of soccer, once again. I hope my story inspired others, especially freshmen to not give up on this sport because it can be done.

I have been living without knowing what I would truly want to be when I grew up. It was always my goal to become an engineer of some sort to satisfy my parent's standards and ideals for me. I have been exposed to my parents struggling and pushing to meet a threshold for bills and finances. Even through the valley of this struggle, they remain by my side and help me through my problems. Because of this, I wanted to become someone who could change my parent's lives through the boundless struggle that a lot of parents go through and live by. Because of this, it gave me the perspective to avoid jobs that I would not have passion for and to pursue something where I feel free and not bound by the power of others. Over the years, I have developed a passion for entrepreneurship and technology. Technology has always interested me. When I was younger, I would learn how to fix errors on my devices and always have to figure out issues with my old devices on my own because my parents would not know what to do, so I would self-teach myself all things technology. It got to a point where whenever there was a tech-related problem, my family would go to me for help fixing the problem. My passion would grow into computers, where I would learn about each different computer part, such as a GPU, CPU, and RAM, and their different functions. For entrepreneurship, the struggle I see in people to barely make it in life and grasp life daily has pushed me to want to learn what I can do to break the shackles and power of money and its effect on the people around me. My academic goal is to earn a bachelor's degree in a computer-related field and become a cloud or AI engineer, and my career goal is to possibly become an entrepreneur of some sort while being certified in cloud or artificial intelligence. Through the years of my childhood, the experiences and memories have shaped me into who I am today, as have the passions that I have developed to this day. My interaction with my friends and family took a lot of conflict and love to make me realize what I want to become, from my mom introducing me to cloud engineering to my friends believing my dream of entrepreneurship is too risky and will not benefit me. However, I have the courage and bravery to continue to grow in every aspect of my life. I was able to make it this far without realizing how far I had made it. Sometimes I look back, wondering how I persevered through the trials and tribulations of school and life, and become proud of what I have become and what I have accomplished so far. Being a minority can have its societal views and lenses toward others and the school system, especially when you do not put forth the effort. However, every day I show up no matter what, putting forth the effort and dedication to leave a legacy of what minorities can do for others and their community. I intend to major in Computer and Information Sciences or anything that can get me close to the cloud, and with these goals and career choices, I plan on giving back to the people who brought me to become the person I am today and in the future. I hope that with my current goals, I can support and benefit society, especially with the ever-growing growth of artificial intelligence and the cloud.

One change I would make to the world is to allow the freedom of books because it develops us as people, without the exposure to societal controversy. “Did you guys notice the ban on books in our school library?” said our English teacher. Most students reacted with shock and others with a mouth ready to discuss the issues related to the banning of books and how that will only limit who we are, what we learn, and the freedom placed in our rights. However, I did not react. I did find this matter serious, but I did not know how to react. I have always been a neutral person when it came to debates, discussions, and in-class Socratic seminars, especially when they became political or controversial. Half the class would agree, and the others would disagree, bringing forth great ideas and opinions that all made sense. However, there are some that are so strong on one side that they cannot consume, understand, or listen to what the other side is stating. This is when I do not become neutral and make a stand for the side being repelled from the arrogance of the other side. In this case of controversial ideas placed in students and young adults’ education, I felt led to a side. Among books, ideas, and speakers, I believe the most influential are speakers in our current society, especially with the growing influence on social media platforms. I do believe that there are speakers that speak the absolute truth for the better of a person, but there are also some that speak on controversial issues and deep topics that have so many opinions surrounding them and usually take sides, which attracts many adolescents and young adults to a belief not guided by their own thoughts and research. Some start not knowing what the issue is, then become adjusted through the first form of contact towards the controversial issue. I watched a video relating to this topic on a social media platform, where it seemed to be a parent conference with the county office on the introduction of such controversial books in the library, and the parents vividly described their frustration with having such books in the child’s school library, granting them free access to information that they would not even show their own parents until they did. It was at this point that I realized the absolute importance of shielding controversial information from developing teenagers, young adults, and children in general. I believe some controversial books provide great education on society as a whole for teenagers and young adults, but they most rapidly reduce and diminish the imagination and creativity within a child when they learn about the realities of controversial issues, and it is worse since they are developing to understand the nature of life and reality. Children are like a blank canvas that only becomes painted by their own environment, family and friends, education, and other factors as they grow up. Having controversial books on various topics will only apply its own paint to the developing canvas of the painting before reaching its final product. In society, government and teachers may play a role in what we see as teenagers and young adults online or even in our libraries, but I believe the population of people that should decide what we are exposed to should be the very people who taught us the foundations of life and raised us up when we were only a pure canvas ready to be painted by beliefs, views, and perspectives, which would be our parents themselves.

Peers and my perspectives on society and within myself have guided my experience with mental health. My school community, specifically my classmates, joke about it and often use it to express their frustration and stress. The phrase "OMG, I am going to kill myself" is repeatedly used by many of my friends and peers in school, and they always laugh it off afterward. However, it makes me realize that sometimes they might not be joking. It comes as a trigger and an automatic phrase when they feel attacked by stress or things they just do not want to deal with. Throughout my experience, the views of mental health have been a rollercoaster, from just phrases being said by friends to them having to go through a mental health crisis, causing them to experience depression and a low sense of purpose. I know a friend who had his mental health depleted from constant pressure and stress from school, which caused them to miss a ton of school, leading them to be kicked out of their academic program. However, over time, I provided relief and a person they could talk to, and now they are doing great and can graduate alongside me for the class of 2024. Moreover, my experience with mental health since COVID-19 has increased drastically. When COVID hit, I was forced to take online school, and I am usually a positive person who can deal with life’s struggles, but for some reason, when it came to hopping online to do schoolwork, then back to video games after that became my routine. It crept up on me and depleted my positivity and resilience towards life, but most importantly, my purpose for living. At this point, mental health had guided my beliefs and views on life while destroying my friendships and connections with my family at home. However, as time passed into my sophomore year, I became who I used to be, and then I realized that humans need social relationships to feel connected to the world and reality around them. In my experience, there is a direct relationship between social relationships and mental health, which directs your views and beliefs on life as you acquire other people's perspectives on life. It becomes important to have a positive social group as people when amongst each other, guide each other on different views and beliefs on life. Mental health has not played a drastic role in my career aspirations except for the idea of certain jobs, like sitting for so long. A 9-5 could seem depressing in my head, but it is only a perception, and it could not be as bad as it looks. Overall, my mental health has provided me with a deeper insight into life and has guided my thoughts on various things towards the world and myself. I have now learned that there is more to life than what is seen and given by it, and I will always live to promote that to the people around me. I intend to major in Computer and Information Sciences or anything that can get me close to cloud computing, and with these goals and career choices, I plan on giving back to the people who got me to become the person I am today and in the future. I hope that with my current goals, I can provide support and benefits to society, especially to the people and the youth who need it the most. Stay supportive and positive, because there is always more to life than what you are currently going through!

My experience with mental health has been guided by peers and my perspectives on society and within myself. My school community, specifically my classmates, joke about it and often use it to express their frustration and stress. The phrase "OMG, I am going to kill myself" is repeatedly used by many of my friends and peers in school, and they always laugh it off afterward. However, it makes me realize that sometimes they might not actually be joking. It comes as a trigger and an automatic phrase when they feel attacked by stress or things they just do not want to deal with. Throughout my experience, the views of mental health have been a rollercoaster, from just phrases being said by friends to them having to go through a mental health crisis, causing them to experience depression and a low sense of purpose. I know a friend who had his mental health depleted from constant pressure and stress from school, which caused them to miss a ton of school, leading them to be kicked out of their academic program. However, throughout a period of time, I provided relief and a person they could talk to, and now they are doing great and can graduate alongside me for the class of 2024. Moreover, my experience with mental health since COVID-19 has increased drastically. When COVID hit, I was forced to take online school, and I am usually a positive person who can deal with life’s struggles, but for some reason, when it came to hopping online to do schoolwork, then back to video games after that became my routine. It slowly crept up on me and slowly depleted my positivity and resilience towards life, but most importantly, my purpose for living. At this point, mental health had guided my beliefs and views on life while destroying my friendships and connections with my family at home. However, as time passed into my sophomore year, I became who I used to be, and then I realized that humans need social relationships in order to feel connected to the world and reality around them. In my experience, there is a direct relationship between social relationships and mental health, which directs your views and beliefs on life as you acquire other people's perspectives on life. It becomes important to have a positive social group as people when amongst each other, guide each other on different views and beliefs on life. Mental health has not played a drastic role in my career aspirations except for the idea of certain jobs, like sitting for so long. A 9-5 could seem depressing in my head, but it is only a perception, and it could not be as bad as it looks. Overall, my mental health has provided me with a deeper insight into life and has guided my thoughts on various things towards the world and myself. I have now learned that there is more to life than what is seen and given by it, and I will always live to promote that to the people around me. Stay supportive and positive, because there is always more to life than what you are currently going through!

Overcoming adversity in my life is like a war that only lives on, but we come out more powerful than before. Growing up in my community, I overcame racial difficulties and hardships that frequently went beyond simple prejudices and presumptions. My path has been characterized by the ongoing struggle against hasty judgments of my skills and potential, as well as the pressure of society's expectations that place a low bar for me and my family. By expressing and sharing my experiences with others, I aim to inspire and influence better habits and a better version of myself through my model of being positive, dedicated, and courageous. The assumption that individuals of my ethnicity were prone to particular behaviors or pursuits deeply troubled and irritated me. It pushed me to defy these expectations, striving to prove that my goals, achievements, and success were not dictated by preconceived notions and affected by societal norms. I stand as a testament to the power of determination, education, and a refusal to accept the status quo. My journey is ongoing, and I remain committed to inspiring change not only within myself but also within my community, challenging assumptions, and advocating for a more equal and thriving future not only for people of color but for everyone in general. Through my leadership and the traits that go along with it, I believe I inspire the people around me to do better for themselves and for the people around them too, ultimately creating a community of leaders ready to take on challenges in life. Furthermore, I want to be able to change and challenge the perspectives of society and its belief that the only way to become wealthy is through the traditional path. I want to allow others to strive for a purpose rather than dread becoming something they never intended to be or wanted to be. Through the years of my childhood, the experiences and memories have shaped me into who I am today, as have the passions that I have developed to this day. My interaction with my friends and family took a lot of conflict and love to make me realize what I want to become, from my mom introducing me to cloud engineering to my friends believing my dream of entrepreneurship is too risky and will not benefit me. However, I have the courage and bravery to continue to grow in every aspect of my life. I was able to make it this far without realizing how far I had come. Sometimes I look back, wondering how I persevered through the trials and tribulations of school and life, and become proud of what I have become and the things I have accomplished so far. Once I graduate, I plan to give back to my family and to the people who got me to that point. I plan on creating a business that can provide benefits and support to those in need. At this point, I am not sure what that would be, but after graduating, I will know. This community I am a part of has helped me ever since elementary school and has treated students equally while providing each student with the best resources and help possible. I have recurring thoughts of wanting to donate to clubs and my school if I had that power, so that is one thing I would do to contribute to my community. I will strive to become a vessel that inspires students, hopefully after I graduate, so they can become who they truly want to be and make a difference in our community and the world.

Peers and my perspectives on society and within myself have guided my experience with mental health. My school community, specifically my classmates, joke about it and often use it to express their frustration and stress. The phrase "OMG, I am going to kill myself" is repeatedly used by many of my friends and peers in school, and they always laugh it off afterward. However, it makes me realize that sometimes they might not actually be joking. It comes as a trigger and an automatic phrase when they feel attacked by stress or things they just do not want to deal with. Throughout my experience, the views of mental health have been a rollercoaster, from just phrases being said by friends to them having to go through a mental health crisis, causing them to experience depression and a low sense of purpose. I know a friend who had his mental health depleted from constant pressure and stress from school, which caused them to miss a ton of school, leading them to be kicked out of their academic program. However, throughout a time, I provided relief and a person they could talk to, and now they are doing great and can graduate alongside me for the class of 2024. Moreover, my experience with mental health since COVID-19 has increased drastically. When COVID hit, I was forced to take online school, and I am usually a positive person who can deal with life’s struggles, but for some reason, when it came to hopping online to do schoolwork, then back to video games after that became my routine. It crept up on me and depleted my positivity and resilience towards life, but most importantly, my purpose for living. At this point, mental health had guided my beliefs and views on life while destroying my friendships and connections with my family at home. However, as time passed into my sophomore year, I became who I used to be, and then I realized that humans need social relationships in order to feel connected to the world and reality around them. In my experience, there is a direct relationship between social relationships and mental health, which directs your views and beliefs on life as you acquire other people's perspectives on life. It becomes important to have a positive social group as people when amongst each other, guide each other on different views and beliefs on life. Mental health has not played a drastic role in my career aspirations except for the idea of certain jobs, like sitting for so long. A 9-5 could seem depressing in my head, but it is only a perception, and it could not be as bad as it looks. Overall, my mental health has provided me with a deeper insight into life and has guided my thoughts on various things towards the world and myself. I have now learned that there is more to life than what is seen and given by it, and I will always live to promote that to the people around me. Stay supportive and positive because there is always more to life than what you are currently going through!

I would be lying if I said that I advocated for the environment to the best of my ability. As a kid, I realized the importance of my habitat and how it benefits us daily. However, the influence on my being was heavy when I was younger, so the societal views placed a toll on what I could do for the environment. As my friends and others would think it was weird to pick up trash from the ground or take care of the earth. I was wrong and influenced on the wrong path towards a healthier earth when I was younger. Despite that, as I grew up into a wiser being, I realized it does not matter what others say about the environment. I knew what was right for the environment, so I started to support the environment to the best of my ability to the point my friends would notice and realized that the negativity towards my cleaning was not as bad as I expected. I would always feel bad that the earth on which I lived was being treated like a peasant. It was a home created by God and was initially made to be a place just like heaven. I strive to continue to support the environment to slowly allow it to become better than it was before. Little by Little. In high school, I became so blinded by academics and doing the best I could in class that I never focused on the earth I walked on. I realized that there was an earth club in my school, so I was able to make it to one school cleanup before the end of the year and I did my best to clean up my school of trash and mess. It was fun to do it with my friends and I was allowed to gain community hours from it, which motivated me to join Earth Club as one of the first clubs I joined in my senior year, and this year, I will strive to do my best to clean the earth to allow it to become the place it was meant to be; God-intended. Overall, If I were to reach the top of the mountain, my flag would have said, "I would've wanted Earth to do the same for me." In order to show the mercy that should provided to the very place that provides us all of our resources and life in general.

I started watching anime during my freshman year, and it all started with one show, which at the start seemed like nonsense and was a waste of time compared to the other shows on Netflix. This one show would teach me the ways and habits to live by and allow me to learn to never give up and believe you can do what you always wanted to do. That show was Naruto, and the whole series itself This show will become one I will never forget, as it is one of my favorite shows I have watched to date. From the story to the plot to the characters, it all teaches some lessons that the viewers can acquire and apply to their lives. Each character has their own meanings and lessons within themselves that can apply to the watchers and make the audience feel connected, such as war, love, hate, redemption, and even the topic of loneliness. My favorite character would be Itachi, as he is just cool and pertains to the aspect of being a loving older brother, which I feel appeals to me, and his loyalty throughout. However, there is more to him than what I can see, such as the bad luck in his life and how he persevered. The audience would skip the fillers and stay with the main story and then go back to the flashbacks within these fillers, but these fillers show more meaning than the story itself. Showing the background of a certain event and character allows one to see what they went through to become what they are and makes the audience feel more connected. What makes it more captivating is that it is not a simple hero vs. villain story, but a plot that gives each character a story, including the villains, that even allows the watchers to feel empathetic towards them, allowing them to understand the villainous shinobi and their reasoning. Overall, the series Naruto will always have a place in my heart, and it was an interesting and captivating show to watch.

Overcoming adversity in my life is like a war that only lives on, but we come out more powerful than before. Growing up in my community, I overcame racial difficulties and hardships that frequently go beyond simple prejudices and presumptions. The path has been characterized by the ongoing struggle against hasty judgments of my skills and potential, as well as the pressure of society's expectations that place a low bar for me and my family. I noticed the subtle yet powerful impact of stereotypes that my community held about people of my race. The assumption that individuals of my ethnicity were prone to particular behaviors or pursuits deeply troubled and irritated me. It pushed me to defy these expectations, striving to prove that my goals, achievements, and success were not dictated by preconceived notions and affected by societal norms. My parents taught me the foundations of living as a person of my color in a system full of potential trouble for people like me. However, I battle these perceptions and views on my color by being above and beyond in the hobbies and academics that I am a part of. Through trials and tribulations, I discipline myself to always be on top of my game every day. Although the adversary is present in my life, I learn to love myself and become a better version of myself. I strive to be a model to others despite race and ethnicity and be a person who can always be there for someone who needs it. Expressing and sharing my experiences with others, I aim to inspire and influence better habits and a better version of myself through my model by being positive, dedicated, and courageous. I pursued a variety of hobbies with a strong feeling of determination, achieving well in school, sports, and creative pursuits. Overall, I honestly just want to become a beacon of hope and inspiration to people of my color and to show that if it is thought and hoped for, then it is possible to do and achieve. I stand as a testament to the power of determination, education, and a refusal to accept the status quo. My journey is ongoing, and I remain committed to inspiring change not only within myself but also within my community, challenging assumptions, and advocating for a more equal and thriving future not only for people of color but for everyone in general.

It was just a hobby, which I smiled at with utmost joy. One area of my major that I am most passionate about is editing. The VFX and SFX are intriguing to me and make me feel in control over my creativity, which I can show to others. At the time, I went through a lot as someone who used to have really bad grades. After one day, I made the realization to put more effort into school, and that is when I switched from being happy to hiding myself to become like everyone else in society, where I wanted to become an engineer and made sure I had good grades because apparently, I would be successful, but eventually, I realized that would have been for society's success, not mine. I became inspired to want to create rather than solve. The sense of creating from nothing to something became something I was proud of, and I applied this to not only video editing but to other aspects of my life. Additionally, this would apply to my writing and essays, where I would put so much effort into the expression that my words portray. With this ability and passion for video editing, I created a YouTube channel with the purpose of providing entertainment to people going through hard times. To give them an escape from the issues of this world. I want to spread that joy to everyone else, make people happy, and allow them to not worry about what's going to happen in the future. I want to become someone who makes people's lives better and happier through one of the things I love doing the most. Additionally, a passion for video editing, allowed me to learn about and gain admiration for other things like computers. Because of this, many hobbies flourished around the idea of video editing. I would learn how to build PCs and the different functions of parts in a computer. I did not always have the best equipment to edit and produce videos, but that didn't stop me from creating them. I would overcome my hindrance by learning how to edit on my phone and soon be able to use Adobe Premiere Pro on an actual computer to put ideas in my mind into actual reality. Overall, a bigger dream of mine is to have a YouTube channel that can provide a source of joy to others and be a community for others to be a part of. This is why I became inspired to pursue video production and learn how to edit.

Soccer, or fútbol, is one of those sports that has stuck with me ever since I was a kid, where the passion drove me to become a better player daily. However, life has its own obstacles and twists that no one could ever expect, especially me. My family and I would end up joining the adventure of constantly moving from house to house every 3 years to find the right home. Well, we found that home and have been living in it for the past 6 years, but my passion for soccer had slowly staggered and was becoming a thing of the past. In elementary school, I ended up playing only soccer during recess every single day instead of the other sports and activities going on, just because it filled me with joy that was fulfilling. I would go on to middle school, where I was able to play for a team in 7th grade. It was an experience that I have never experienced before, the actual competitive atmosphere against other teams excited me and made me nervous as well. At this point, I was able to make friends and have new experiences I never thought I would have ever again. However, this blinded the truth behind my playtime on the field as I would sit on the bench for hours almost every game, not realizing that I was not getting the playtime I deserved. The first tryouts were a struggle to go through and now I could not even play in the games, It hit me that I was probably bad at the sport and was wasting my time. I would have one game, where I was able to be the goalkeeper and saved a freekick believing that portrayed what I could bring to the table on the field, but I was wrong when the next game the same bench-warming would resume until the end of the season. 8th grade would become a nightmare for me when it came to my favorite sport as I did not make the team. This would have become the lowest point of my soccer career at this point. The crushing feeling that you were enough for something you love. It hurt and would haunt me for months. Despite that, It taught me to become more, which meant practicing more and becoming better. To be ready for high school, the era of my accomplishments to date. High school would become full of awards and achievements that surpassed what I was in middle school. It surpassed my expectation as a player overall. Everyone seemed to be a part of a club, but I was not due to the pricing. However, my performance and game from all that practice led to me becoming a varsity in my junior year of high school. The experiences from my past taught me to be diligent and strive for more on the field and off. It would teach me to break every barrier and obstacle that came in the past and to put forth the effort and work to reach a goal, no matter what. Because of this, my high school team and I would push forward before becoming district champions, a title I never thought I would reach. My high school experiences until now would fulfill my passion again when I was a kid and fill me up with an overflowing joy for the game of soccer, once again. I hope my story inspired others, especially freshmen to not give up on this sport because it can be done. Thank You, Nasser Seconi. Rest Well.