Undergraduate / 'his island of Puerto Rico' - FSU Essae [3]

The true value of a dollar is only seen through the eyes of the hungry and the desolate. When there is necessity, money is the key to the lock of happiness that we continuously fight and strive for voraciously everyday. Growing up in a family of low formal education, I have had to survive through these periodic hunger famines because of lack of monetary influence in my home. My father was a businessman who has failed in his strenuous endeavors. He travels to his island of Puerto Rico in order to attack the monster of hunger and depravation of which his family suffers from every time he has departed from our sight. Months would go on without his return, thus leaving my unemployed mother and I to conserve our food in order to sustain such difficult times. However, this has shaped me to be the person who I am today. It has made my understanding for responsibility and unity a stronger and passionate attachment. Therefore, the term "Vires" has a significant mark on my background.

Having to quarrel with this bully, always bringing me down and making undergo horrible experiences, I ended up working for my father and his crew of construction workers in Puerto Rico. Working pain-staking hours, from seven in the morning to twelve o'clock at night for wages of twenty dollars a day, my body could not sustain such exhaustion on a daily basis. This is what drives my spirit to excel in school so that I could become anything I wish to be and not be forced to succumb to the powerful grips of hunger or to have to work at any cost in order to put food on the table, as my father has had to experience. When I left Puerto Rico and arrived to Miami, I had over two hundred dollars saved up. I gave this to my mother who could not accompany us because of the air fare costs. From then on, I have put my social life on hold and have focused on my studies as intense as a triathlon runner. I have received a congressional award for Most Improved Student of Miami, elected from my school Coral Reef Senior High. I was also hired as an Intern at the Securities and Exchange Commission; only three students in all of Miami Dade County have had the privilege of saying that. FSU, a university that strives itself on the improvement of its students, both mentally and physically, is the place that may fully develop my raw potential for business and economics. Even though I have not been dealt the best set of cards, with the help of my "Vires" and Florida State University, I will finish the game winning the pot of happiness.