Sister Story #3

Something that I've been thinking a lot about lately is graduating in December after four and a half years of a grueling college experience. I'm thinking a lot about my dad, my relationship with him and stuff. When I started college, even in high school, he was very against me going to a 4-year university. He only wanted me to go to (community college) because it was cheap, and because I wasn't planning on getting a degree in a science or math field, so therefore I wasn't worthy of a 4-year education or a degree that would cost that much.

In my Sophomore year, I began to really get involved in my major and I started to get accolades. By the end of Junior year, I decided to do my study abroad, and that's when I really amped up scholarship awards, opportunities, recognition - like editor on the paper and all these crazy things that I really don't think that he thought I would be able to do. Everything I have done is for me because I paid for it.

And fast-forwarding to now, I feel like that's kind of what I was worried about in college, a small part of me said I have to prove my dad wrong, and I did. I really did. I try to be a humble person but I've done a lot of good stuff and I'm very proud of myself. It's just crazy, thinking back on it and being like "Oh my god, is this right? Was he right? Do I have any chance in this field?”

And I question myself everyday.

(Seattle, WA)