In 500 words or less, please provide information about any personal or financial obstacles that you have had to overcome. If you do not have any community service involvement, you may use this space to tell us why. Do not repeat anything that you listed earlier.
Certain financial obstacles would be with my parents' income because it restricts a lot of things for me. My mother works as an Elementary School lunch lady and my father is a Hotel Maintenance Worker. Although they provided me, my brothers and my sisters with a good home, we have very little extra money. As a result, I had to choose between going to homecoming and saving for college. I chose saving because college will do more for me in the long run. Getting this scholarship will make attending University of Florida a lot less of a hardship. Also my parents still managed to give me certain resources like provide a home, food, and internet for me and my siblings, I overcame this by learning that I do not need a lot of material things and that it is about quality not quantity.
Personal obstacles would be to really decide what I want to do in life and what path to choose. I could have easily pass high school with the bare minimum requirements, but I did not want to because I wanted to challenge myself even though I had some mishaps at least I tried.
Also moving from Chinatown, New York to Pembroke Pines, Florida was a huge culture shock to me because I went from having many Asian people in my class to having one or two in my classes. Also the language barrier was difficult because I started to lose my Cantonese language as I spoke more English but I still spoke some Cantonese with my parents. I use to be ashamed of being Chinese because I was the only one and felt awkward but I soon grew out of it and started embracing the Chinese culture and was not so afraid of speaking Cantonese in public.
Another personal obstacle would be that I feel like I have a responsibility to my parents because they do not speak English that well and would need me to help them but yet I want to move away from home to experience other things. This scholarship will help so much because it will take the burden of my parents to pay for my college tuition and on campus housing.
new revision any mistakes?
Certain financial obstacles would be with my parents' income because it restricts a lot of things for me. My mother works as an Elementary School lunch lady and my father is a Hotel Maintenance Worker. Although they provided me, my brothers and my sisters with a good home, we have very little extra money. As a result, I had to choose between going to homecoming and saving for college. I chose saving because college will do more for me in the long run. Getting this scholarship will make attending University of Florida a lot less of a hardship. Also my parents still managed to give me certain resources like provide a home, food, and internet for me and my siblings, I overcame this by learning that I do not need a lot of material things and that it is about quality not quantity.
Personal obstacles would be to really decide what I want to do in life and what path to choose. I could have easily pass high school with the bare minimum requirements, but I did not want to because I wanted to challenge myself even though I had some mishaps at least I tried.
Also moving from Chinatown, New York to Pembroke Pines, Florida was a huge culture shock to me because I went from having many Asian people in my class to having one or two in my classes. Also the language barrier was difficult because I started to lose my Cantonese language as I spoke more English but I still spoke some Cantonese with my parents. I use to be ashamed of being Chinese because I was the only one and felt awkward but I soon grew out of it and started embracing the Chinese culture and was not so afraid of speaking Cantonese in public.
Another personal obstacle would be that I feel like I have a responsibility to my parents because they do not speak English that well and would need me to help them but yet I want to move away from home to experience other things. This scholarship will help so much because it will take the burden of my parents to pay for my college tuition and on campus housing.
new revision any mistakes?