This picture was taken before my senior year of high school at Champaign Central High School on August 12, 2016. I would not call this my senior year picture, but my smile really shows that I was ready for senior year. Like many students, I was ready for senior year to begin. All the things I learned from the last three years have shown what type of a great gentleman I have become. I became more conservative, I have become part of Young Life, I have made friends, and I have got awards that I will never forget.
However, my life did not began in Champaign, it began on the South Side of Chicago, where I was born in 1998 on February 4th. I was a product of a single mother and statistics have shown that kids born into single parent households (mostly matriarchal) were doomed to fail socially, educationally, and worst, economically. I understood the statistics and I understood the consequences behind those statistics, but I tried to not let it bother me. I went to school first in the Chicago Public School system for 12 years at Avalon Park (which was terrible despite making decent grades, and still is today). The disadvantages of the school went from the teachers to the students. Students were overcrowded and undereducated, and teachers were underpaid and under teaching the students. There were inadequate lesson plans or the students just didn't care. I hated everything about that school system. There were times I did not want to go to school due to poor educational structures. Things were about to change.
It was a Tuesday, April 12th, 2010. Me, my younger sister, and my mother were on a Greyhound bus to Champaign, IL. My mother had a problem with the landlord and she just could not take it anymore. She and my uncle called my grandfather to come and live with him for a while. We stayed with him from my 5th grade year at Kenwood Elementary School to my first semester of 6th grade at Edison Middle School. After that, we moved into a shelter and stayed for three years until freshman year at Champaign Central High School. We moved to transitional housing during my sophomore year and stayed until junior year. We eventually moved into an apartment, but all of my mother's paycheck goes to the rent. It is really depressing, but she does what she can.
Now, I am going to Parkland College in the fall of 2017 in the Parkland Pathway to Illinois (University of Illinois) studying Computer Science and hopefully I can minor in Mathematics. I know that I need to work a little hard that some students, but I believe that will not be much of a issue because I am a hardworking person and I believe it will pay off.
Note: This is the general version of my life. I will talk about this more in future posts.
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