Pursuing my higher education allows me to fulfill my dream career. Given the chance to go to college creates a brick lifted off my back to continue being the best daughter, sister, and even friend I can be to the people that supported me through it all. Having to work since I was 14 just to be able to experience things that not everyone can. My mother is the only parent that provided for me able to watch me walk across a stage while I finally complete something that I and her have discussed since I was able to talk. Given the circumstances of my life, this accomplishment will live out for years to come. Being the first person to graduate from my family while being a young biracial female while being raised by her mother and dog, this step of life doesn’t always come so easy, which it wasn’t. Still, the memories following up to the day I graduate are filled with ups and downs, tears, laughs and screams allowing me to appreciate my accomplishment even more. This scholarship will allow me to relieve me and my mother from the stress of how to pay for my future. It would be an honor to be able to earn this reward for my and my family's hard work to get me here. Everyone deserves a chance to fulfill their future without having the burden of, “How will I do this?’’. Everyone should be allowed to learn and prosper to help build out society and make a difference. Going into school for criminal justice to pusher my dream of becoming a federal agent gets me one step closer to making it a reality. Being a select few of a handful of students that planned and took control of their lives and it paying off by me being able to reclass up to graduate a year early shows the dedication I have for my future. A future I hope to share with my loved ones. Pushing to become the person I know who is ready to branch out and take every opportunity that is given to build my empire. Education comes with responsibilities, responsibilities come with growth, and growth comes with opportunities, all these factors are things I will accomplish during my time building my future. My future is dear to me and everyone in my circle. Creating my legacy is why this scholarship will help my future.