When I look back on my life there are many stories I could speak about. I’ve been lucky enough to travel to Barcelona with my parents, broke my Adam’s apple in baseball, and even been part of a football state championship team my senior year. But, if there’s one thing I do like talking about its about how I got to TCU. I didn’t come to TCU the traditional way like many of you have. When I was younger I always wanted to come here since my dad went here before me. My mom and him moved down here so she could find work and he ended up getting accepted at TCU and graduated with a nursing degree in 1996, and then moved back to CO. Growing up I was a TCU sports fanatic. I watched the football team every Saturday with my family and every other year got to watch them live when they played CSU in Fort Collins. One of my best memories was when I got to meet coach Patterson. It was in the fall of …show more content…
My dad had gotten one of those footballs designed for signatures on the off chance we could meet some of the players afterwards. That ball was supposed to be for the family, but it changed when Patterson came up to me and signed the ball to me specifically to which that ball became mine. Needless to say, after seeing what a TCU degree can lead to with my dad and this experience, this was my top school of choice for college.

Unfortunately for me after graduating in 2012 I did not have the grades nor the ambition to go to college right away. During my last semester I failed an online course at the local community college Aims, so my funding went out the door. I ended up working for about a year and a half at Arby’s before realizing the goals I had in life required a degree of some kind. So, I chose to go back to Aims Community college and placed high enough on the accuplacer exam to not have to take any remedial courses and began taking classes with a new frame of mind. I stuck with it this time