My Nonprofit Reviews

Having been the Reno Rodeo Foundation scholarship recipient, I enabled myself to explore new horizons. I want to share and discuss the unique position I experienced. Not many people are aware that my mother lives off of Social Security due to her chronic illness. When I was a child, I had no motivation, because I thought Post-Secondary education was not accessible to me. This in turn caused my grades to deteriorate, because I had no drive or vision for success in my future. My mental health had a parallelistic relationship with my grades. I felt like I was in a never ending cycle of failure.
My family was living on a disability income, which was not quite sufficient to support a growing family. It is my goal in life to become financially stable enough to serve my family and other low-income communities. With this, I focused on my education in the pursuit of happiness. College and my education is incredibly important to me because it is the penultimate to live a financially stable life. College is all about my choices that my mother did not have due to predestined circumstances.
Due to my mother's disease, I have always been interested in the field of medicine. I have always been allured to human anatomy and physiology because it is a mysterious process that elicits life and function. The fact of a person being conscious and present by the interaction of cells is astonishing. The silver lining to my mother's horrendous disease turned out to be a blessing in disguise because it ignited my dedication for science.
With big aspirations of going into the medical field, it seemed unrealistic because I am a first-generation student going into a brave new world. I focused on my studies in high school and valued every second of my time to participate in a plethora of activities, by utilizing my time, I was able to accomplish many achievements. That being said, I was able to become a Reno Rodeo Scholarship recipient.
This scholarship allowed me to break mental barriers in which my past has created. I am now a Biology Major at the University of Nevada Reno. This scholarship has allowed me to get the full college experience because I had the luxury to live on campus. Being able to live on campus has made campus resources easily accessible. In this context, I was able to strive in my studies at UNR. WIth this scholarship, I did not have to work as much so I spent more time in my studies. I was able to get an immaculate internship through the ASUN organization on campus. I was a programming intern throughout the year, which allowed me to attain life-long friends, memories, and it allowed me to network within the Reno community. This scholarship is a gift that I could not thank the opportunity enough for.