After talking to my high school counselor, we realized that I had no chance of attending a CSU or college and that if I were to graduate, I should attend a Junior College. This meeting with my counselor and my mother really helped me turn the page on this chapter of my life. I realized that if I wanted to be anything in this world, make money or provide for a family, I was going to have to step up my game. During these last two years of high school, I was by no means the best student, but I applied myself and was rewarded by walking across that stage in front of my family and receiving a